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Burcin Bozkaya


Areas of Expertise:
LLMs, Gen AI, RAG, Behavioral Analytics

Interesting Project:
Helping partners build gen AI, LLM, RAG, agentic, and optimization solutions

  


Senior Developer Relations Manager
NVIDIA
Florida, USA


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & MM Associate Exams

Jim Brinksma


Areas of Expertise:
SaaS, AI, ML, Networking

Interesting Project:
Multi-cloud GPUaaS orchestration

 


SVP Software and Solutions
LightRiver Software
New York, USA


Contributions: AI Infrastructure & Operations Associate Exam,  AI Operations, AI Infrastructure and AI Networking Professional Exams 

Dr. Manal Jalloul


Areas of Expertise:
Gen AI, Accelerated Computing, Data Science

Interesting Project:
Develop DL solutions in automotive, pharma, smart cities, and more

  


Founder and CEO
AI Lab
Beirut, Lebanon


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & MM Associate Exams, Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Dr. Laszlo Kovacs


Areas of Expertise:
DL and AI in medical and automotive industries

Interesting Project:
AI/ML-based product development, and real-time product-related data analysis solutions to support production and quality steering

  


Research Scientist, Assistant Professor
BMW and University of Debrecen
Debrecen, Hungary


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & MM Associate, Accelerated Data Science Professional Exams

Vadim Kudlay


Areas of Expertise:
Deep Learning, Gen AI

Interesting Project:
Mimic Keras API using NumPy to implement MNIST classifier

  


Senior Content Developer, DLI
NVIDIA
Louisiana, USA


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

Kevin Lee


Areas of Expertise:
Data Science, Computer Vision, LLMs

Interesting Project:
AI agents

  


Senior Content Developer, DLI
NVIDIA
California, USA


Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Eric Phan


Areas of Expertise:
AI, ML, Data Science, and Robotics

Interesting Project:
Accelerating workflows with a single line of code

  


System Software Engineer
NVIDIA
California, USA


Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Ranjit Rajan


Areas of Expertise:
Data Processing, DL, Search, and Gen AI

Interesting Project:
Design and build accelerated data processing and gen AI solutions

  


Senior Solutions Architect 
NVIDIA
Washington, USA


Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Mohammad Raza


Areas of Expertise:
Gen AI, Computer Vision, ML

Interesting Project:
Design and implement cutting-edge gen AI solutions for enterprise clients

  


Senior Solutions Architect
NVIDIA
Illinois, USA


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams 

Rodion Shkrobot


Areas of Expertise:
DevOps, Software Engineering and Architecture

Interesting Project:
Creating new CSPs, designing government AI-enabled security systems

  


Cloud Architect
SoftServe Inc.
Kiev, Ukraine


Contributions: AI Infrastructure & Operations Associate, AI Operations, AI Infrastructure Professional Exams

Shahar Siegman


Areas of Expertise:
NVIDIA AI Software Stack

Interesting Project:
Educate NVIDIA’s largest customers on how to utilize our AI software stack

  


Content Creator and Instructor, NVIDIA Academy
NVIDIA
Tel Aviv, Israel


Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam 

Roman Syrotynskyi


Areas of Expertise:
Computer Networking

Interesting Project:
Operational support of corporate networking

  


Network Infrastructure Project Manager SoftServe Inc.
Kyiv, Ukraine


Contributions: AI Networking Professional Exam

David Taubenheim


Areas of Expertise:
Accelerated Data Science, Exploratory Data Analysis, LLM-Enabled System Development

Interesting Project:
Use LLMs to semantically search records to find new business opportunities

  


Senior Solutions Engineer
NVIDIA
Texas, USA


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams 

Dr. Ihor Vakulchyk


Areas of Expertise:
Machine Learning Operations

Interesting Project:
Design and implementation of the operations platform within an NVIDIA stack-based AI Factory

 


Machine Learning Operations Engineer
Match 

British Columbia, Canada


Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Gemma van der Voorst


Areas of Expertise:
Computer Networking, Virtualization

Interesting Project:
Design and build virtualized infrastructures for mission-critical workloads with HPC and vGPUs

  


IT Specialist
VMware
Groningen, Netherlands


Contributions: AI Infrastructure & Operations Associate, AI Operations, AI Infrastructure, AI Networking Professional Exam

Domen Verber


Areas of Expertise:
HPC, AI, Embedded Systems, Computer Languages

Interesting Project:
Intelligent real-time monitoring of patient’s vital signs with ML-based evaluation

  


Assistant Professor
University of Maribor 
Slovenia


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

Xiaowei Zhao


Areas of Expertise:
Neural Network-Based Language Models, Deep Learning, and Conversational AI

Interesting Project:
Design and build virtualized infrastructures for mission-critical workloads with HPC and vGPUs

  


Professor of Psychology
Emmanuel College
Massachusetts, USA


Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

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