Trained by physicists, with a BA in pure math, a PhD in molecular developmental biology, and lots of open source code to my name, I am currently a biologist trapped in a computer science department. I work at the intersection of big sequence data, novel computer science data structures and algorithms, and biological hypothesis generation & validation.
Mr. Ted Goldstein is a Biomolecular Engineering / Bioinformatics Ph.D. candidate at the University of California at Santa Cruz working on a theory of the molecular processes of cancer. Mr. Goldstein is an entrepreneur, a former Vice President of Developer Tools at Apple Computer and is transitioning into a full time biotech scientist. He is a member of the Haussler and Stuart Labs, and several NIH TCGA Data Analysis teams and Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Dream teams. He has created an analysis technique called Differential Pathway Signatures of Cancer (DiPSC) that compares cancer genomic phenotypes.At Apple, Mr. Goldstein’s team created the Mac OS X and iOS runtime systems and the Xcode developer tools for Apple’s Intel, iPhone and iPad products as well as WebObjects which run iTunes and Apple's retail web systems. Prior to Apple, Mr. Goldstein led the electronic commerce and smart card efforts at Sun Microsystems and JavaSoft where he created Java Card, the smartcard platform used for US Federal Identification and includes select medical information for the armed forces. As an innovator in electronic commerce, programming environments, and smart card technologies, Mr. Goldstein has received ten patents related to C++, Java, and E-commerce.
Iya Khalil oversees the application of the company’s simulation
technology to critical challenges in the healthcare industry.
A frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, she has
extensive experience in reverse engineering and forward simulations
of large-scale genetic and biochemical networks. Iya is an inventor
on a number of pending patents and has published multiple articles
on in silico technologies applied to drug discovery and development.
Prior to joining GNS Healthcare, she worked at Cornell University,
University of Washington, and Abbott Labs. Iya holds a B.S. in
physics from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in physics
from Cornell University.
Robert Grossman is a faculty member at the University of Chicago. He is the Director of Informatics at the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute, and a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Genetic Medicine. His research group focuses on big data and related areas, including bioinformatics, predictive modeling, and cloud computing. He is the Founder and a Partner of Open Data Group, which specializes in building predictive models over big data. He is also the Director of the not-for-profit Open Cloud Consortium, which provides cloud computing infrastructure to support researchers. More information about him can be found at his web site rgrossman.com.
Prior to co-founding Piston Cloud Computing, Joshua McKenty was the Technical Architect of NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Platform and the OpenStack compute components. As a member of OpenStack's Project Policy Board, Joshua plays an instrumental role in the OpenStack community. Joshua has over two decades of experience in entrepreneurship, management and software engineering and architecture. He was the team lead for the development of the Netscape Browser (vs. 8) as well as AOL's IE AIM toolbar, and a senior engineer at Flock.com. He also led the successful first release of OpenQuake, an open source software application allowing users to compute seismic hazard, seismic risk and the socio-economic impact of earthquakes. In his spare time, Joshua has crafted a handmade violin and banjo, fathered two children, and invented his own juggling trick, the McKenty Madness.
Ryan is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on cloud data services. He's been at Google for 5 years and previously helped build out the Google Apps ISV ecosystem. He recently published his first book Getting Started with OAuth 2.0 with O'Reilly.
Tom is responsible for demand forecasting, data mining, design
simulations, and executive support for Broadband and Video on Demand
for Comcast Cable. Specific activities include forecasting future
bandwidth demand, identifying cost sensitivities, defining
engineering design guidelines, developing long term cost
implications from insights into customer behavior. Tom is also
charged with building and maintaining a data warehouse of broadband
and video telemetry used to support
data mining, dashboard reporting, forecasting / budget planning, and
executive / strategic requests.
Prior to Comcast, Tom led a research & development joint venture for
Comcast, established a Video on Demand advertising platform for a
major content provider, engineered an internet e-commerce site from
concept to
$80 million in annual sales, led a direct marketing team with 5
million direct mail contacts a year, and build a sales analytics
function for a
100,000 order / day retail business.
Tom has authored numerous patents in video / cdn network management,
broadband network management, data privacy, web navigation, TV
advertising, e-commerce, and television audience measurement.
Tom has a Computer Science degree from Syracuse University.
Clark Gaylord is the Chief Information Officer of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI),
Virginia Techʼs largest university research center, where he leads a team of developers, system
administrators, database administrators, and IT support staff. Clark is a contributing architect
of Virginia Techʼs Scientific Data Warehouse, and VTTIʼs data repository features petascale cluster
file systems, parallel relational databases, and high-performance computational clusters. Clark has
been at Virginia Tech over twenty years, as a graduate student and researcher in statistics and
network engineer.
Prior to joining VTTI, Clark was the IT operations lead for the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
Since getting his PhD developing GaAs detectors for the ATLAS detector of the LHC Stephen has been working on computing aspects of this "Big Science". He began working in the same department as Peter Higgs before working for both Berkeley and Stanford. There he worked on the BaBar experiment, which included completely revising its Computing Model from a object database approach. He is now working for CERN on the other general purpose experiment on the LHC: CMS.
Michael McIntire has been working in the Complex Data Analytics industry for 25 years, and is currently the CTO for Analytics at Sears Holdings Corporation. In the Previous 10 years, he was the Chief Architect for User Data at Yahoo Inc, and the Chief Architect for Data Warehousing at eBay Inc. He has designed and implemented many of the worlds largest Enterprise Data Warehousing platforms, including novel backup and archive software and platforms, large system synchronization systems, and multi-active environments.
Dhruba Borthakur is an engineer in the Database Engineering Team
at Facebook. He has been one of the lead contributors for the Apache
Hadoop Distributed File System. He has been associated with Hadoop
since its inception while working for Yahoo. He is instrumental in
scaling Facebook's Hadoop cluster to multiples of petabytes. Dhruba
also is a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project.
Dhruba's current focus is to evaluate alternative database
technologies that can provide better efficiency than MySQL on Solid
State Devices.
Earlier, he was a Senior Lead Engineer at Veritas Software (since
acquired by Symantec) and was responsible for the development of the
Veritas SanPointDirect Storage System. Prior to Veritas, he was the
Chief Architect at Oreceipt.com, an e-commerce startup based in
Sunnyvale. Before that, he was a Senior Engineer at IBM-Transarc
Labs where he contributed to the development of Andrew File System
(AFS), a part of IBM's e-commerce initiative, WebSphere. Dhruba has
an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison and a B.S. in Computer Science BITS, Pilani, India. He has
20 issued patents. He is the co-author of multiple academic papers
in respected conferences like SIGMOD, NSDI and EuroSys. He hosts a
Hadoop blog at
http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/
Dan oversees the development and innovation of the Platform and Analytics Engineering group at Zynga. Before joining Zynga, Dan started his career doing molecular biology and immunology laboratory research at institutions like UCSF and Genentech for 8 years. He then moved into software engineering for bioinformatics systems at Incyte Pharmaceuticals and Genentech for the next 7 years. Dan later co-founded a business intelligence software and consulting company called Breadboard BI for the next 3 years before he came to Zynga. He received a B.A. in Biochemistry from Vassar college, and a Masters In Computer Information Systems form Golden Gate University.
Omer Trajman is Vice President of Technology Solutions at
Cloudera. Focused on Cloudera's technology strategy and
communication, Omer works with customers and partners to identify
where Big Data technology solutions can address business needs.
Prior to this role, Omer served as Vice President of Customer
Solutions, which included Cloudera University, Cloudera's
Architectural Services and Cloudera's Partner Engineering team. As
the authority in Apache Hadoop related training and certification,
pioneer of the Zero to Hadoop deployment process and leader in
Hadoop ecosystem integrations, Customer Solutions ensured the
successful launch of some of the largest and most complex Hadoop
deployments across industries.
Prior to Joining Cloudera, Omer was responsible for the Cloud
Computing, Hadoop and Virtualization initiatives at Vertica. He also
built and managed Vertica's Field Engineering team, ensuring success
from pre-sales to production for Vertica's largest customers. Omer
received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts
University and was a visiting scholar at Oxford University reading
in Computation and Electrical Engineering with a focus on large
scale distributed systems.
Kenny is Senior Director of Memory Product Planning for Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
In this capacity, he is responsible for enabling the ongoing offering of leading-edge
memory products, as well as the provisioning of sensing technology for future memory development.
Previously, Kenny worked on the DRAM design team for 15 years, contributing to several
major projects including VRAM, WRAM, RDRAM, and DDR2 DRAM. He joined Samsung Electronics in 1990.
Kenny holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from Sung-Kyun-Kwan University in
Korea and an MBA from SUNY at Stony Brook in the U.S.
Andrew has been a developer with Vertica (now an HP Company) for more than 5 years, focused on its distributed query optimizer. His full bio can be found on his LinkedIn profile.
Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and
technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main
architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational
DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of
California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer
Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a
co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the
C-Store column-oriented DBMS, and the H-Store transaction processing
engine. Currently, he is working on science-oriented DBMSs, OLTP
DBMSs, and scalable data curation. He is the founder of five
venture-capital backed startups, which commercialized his
prototypes. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of
VoltDB and Paradigm4, Inc.
Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on
data base technology, operating systems and the architecture of
system software services. He was awarded the ACM System Software
Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES. Additionally, he was awarded
the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest
group in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award
in 2005, and is presently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
at M.I.T, where he is co-director of the new Intel Science and
Technology Center focused on big data.
