About the reviewers

Basem O. F. Alijla received his Ph.D. degree in intelligent systems from USM, Malaysia, in 2015. He is currently an assistant professor with Software Development Department, IUG in Palestine. He has authored number of technical papers published in journals and international conferences. His current research interest include, Optimization, Machine Learning, and Data mining.

Oleg Vasilev is a professional with a background in Computer Science and Data Engineering. His university program is Applied Mathematics and Informatics in NRU HSE, Moscow, with a major in Distributed Systems. He is a staff member on a Git-course, Practical_RL and Practical_DL, taught on-campus in HSE and YSDA. Oleg's previous work experience includes working in Dialog Systems Group, Yandex, as Data Scientist. He currently holds a position of Vice President of Infrastructure Management in GoTo Lab, an educational corporation, and he works for Digital Contact as a software engineer.

I'd like to thank Alexander Panin (@justheuristic), my mentor, for opening the world of Machine Learning to me. I am deeply grateful to other Russian researchers who helped me in mastering Computer Science: Pavel Shvechikov, Alexander Grishin, Valery Kharitonov, Alexander Fritzler, Pavel Ostyakov, Michail Konobeev, Dmitrii Vetrov, and Alena Ilyna. I also want to thank my friends and family for their kind support.

Mikhail Yurushkin holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics. His areas of research are high performance computing and optimizing compilers development. He was involved in the development of a state-of-the-art optimizing parallelizing compiler system. Mikhail is a senior lecturer at SFEDU university, Rostov on Don, Russia. He teaches advanced DL courses, namely Computer Vision and NLP. Mikhail has worked for over 7 years in cross-platform native C++ development, machine learning, and deep learning. Now he works as an inpidual consultant in ML/DL fields.