SUPUN KAMBURUGAMUVE has a Ph.D. in computer science specializing in high-performance data analytics. He is the architect behind the high-performance data analytics system Twister2 and is a principal software engineer at the Digital Science Center of Indiana University, where he researches and leads efforts to develop data analytics applications and frameworks. He is a frequent speaker at research and technical conferences including Strata NY, Big Data Conference, and Apache Con.
SALIYA EKANAYAKE is a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley Lab, specializing in improving the performance of large-scale machine learning systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, where, his research contributed to the development of SPIDAL, a scalable parallel interoperable data analytics library that outperformed existing big data systems on several machine learning applications. His work has been published in over twenty publications.