Gohar Marikyan is the 2020 recipient of the Turnab Chair in Mentoring award and the 2012 recipient of the Susan H. Turben Award for Excellence in Scholarship. She holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics (research Ph.D. in mathematical logic) and an M.S. in computer science (research master’s degree in theory of algorithms). Dr. Marikyan continues to actively pursue her research in mathematical logic as it applies to computer science. 

Tomasz Bąk has completed his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Economics in Katowice in the area of spatial sampling. He is the Head of AI in Digital Fingerprints, a company that provides a tool that would defend every user of the critical service from the digital hijack. He has published several papers in reputed journals and in the same gathered 8 years of experience in developing ML & Data Science solutions for business.

Alain De Maertelaere has been working as a freelance consultant for more than 25 years in the domain of data warehousing, business intelligence, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. Due to his experience and expertise, he has been interviewed by many IT-related magazines in Belgium. In 2016 he was awarded by a Belgian customer for initiating and implementing a “data warehouse dream team”. In 2017, Alain was an award winner of “Innovation by Technology”.