Md. Rezaul Karim has more than 8 years of experience in the area of research and development with a solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures in C/C++, Java, Scala, R, and Python focusing Big Data technologies: Spark, Kafka, DC/OS, Docker, Mesos, Zeppelin, Hadoop, and MapReduce and Deep Learning technologies: TensorFlow, DeepLearning4j and H2O-Sparking Water. His research interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Semantic Web/Linked Data, Big Data, and Bioinformatics. He is a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He holds a BSc and an MSc degree in Computer Science. Before joining the Fraunhofer FIT, he had been working as a researcher at Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Before that, he worked as a lead engineer with Samsung Electronics' distributed R&D Institutes in Korea, India, Vietnam, Turkey, and Bangladesh. Before that, he worked as a research assistant in the Database Lab at Kyung Hee University, Korea. He also worked as an R&D engineer with BMTech21 Worldwide, Korea. Even before that, he worked as a software engineer with i2SoftTechnology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the author of the following book titles with Packt Publishing:
• Large-Scale Machine Learning with Spark
• Deep Learning with TensorFlow
• Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics
• Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow
