Dr. Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran and Dr. Richard Peterson

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Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran is Senior Director of Technology at SapientNitro and heads the data sciences team out of India. He is also responsible for modernizing the engineering team at Sapient and heads all next generation work on data. Vijay has spent the last 12+ years creating intellectual property and building products in the big data area at Oracle, Cognizant, and Impetus, including building PMML support into Spark/Storm and implementing several machine learning algorithms, such as LDA and random forests, over Spark. Earlier in his career, Vijay was a postdoctoral research fellow at the LSIR Labs within the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). He is a senior member of the IEEE and a professional member of the ACM. He holds four full US patents and has published in leading journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions. His research interests include distributed systems, cloud, grid, peer-to-peer computing, machine learning for big data, and other emerging technologies. Vijay holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from SVCE, Madras University, an MS (by research) from IIT Madras, and a PhD from IIT Madras.

Richard Peterson is CEO of MarketPsych Data which produces psychological and macroeconomic data derived from text analytics of news and social media. MarketPsych’s data is consumed by the world’s largest hedge funds. Dr. Peterson is an award-winning financial writer, an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance, has published widely in academia, and performed postdoctoral neuroeconomics research at Stanford University.