Usman Ahmed is a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate at Western Norway University of Applied Science (HVL). He has rich experience in building and scaling high-performance systems based on data mining, natural language processing, and machine learning. Usman's research interests are sequential data mining, heterogeneous computing, natural language processing, a recommendation system, and machine learning. He has completed a Master's of Science in computer science from Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. Usman Ahmed was awarded Gold Medal in Bachelor of Computer Science from Heavy Industries Taxila Education City.