Matei Zaharia is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford (moving to UC Berkeley later this year) and Chief Technologist and Cofounder of Databricks. His research has spanned distributed systems, databases, security and machine learning, with the most recent focus on systems for machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Matei started and contributed to multiple widely used open source projects including Apache Spark (his PhD project at UC Berkeley), MLflow, Dolly, Delta Lake, and ColBERT. His research was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Hui Guan is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the flagship campus of the UMass system. Her research interest resides at the intersection of programming systems and machine learning, with a focus on improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of machine learning through innovations in algorithms and programming systems (e.g., compilers and runtime). Hui is currently working at Amazon on AIOps.

Product Manager at Google. Ex-Amazon AI Research and Education Lab.