About the Author Dr. Saket S.R. Mengle holds a PhD in text mining from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He has worked in a variety of fields, including text classification, information retrieval, large-scale machine learning, and linear optimization. He currently works as senior principal data scientist at dataxu, where he is responsible for developing and maintaining the algorithms that drive dataxu's real-time advertising platform.Maximo Gurmendez holds a master's degree in computer science/AI from Northeastern University, where he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. Since 2009, he has been working with dataxu as data science engineering lead. He's also the founder of Montevideo Labs (a data science and engineering consultancy).
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