Richard Liaw Author

Max Pumperla is a data science professor and software engineer located in Hamburg, Germany. He's an active open source contributor, maintainer of several Python packages, and author of machine learning books. He currently works as software engineer at Anyscale. As head of product research at Pathmind Inc. he was developing reinforcement learning solutions for industrial applications at scale using Ray RLlib, Serve and Tune. Edward Oakes ([email protected]), writing chapters 7 (data) & 9 (serving): "Edward is a software engineer and team lead at Anyscale, where he leads the development of Ray Serve and is one of the top open source contributors to Ray. Prior to Anyscale, he was a graduate student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley." RIchard Liaw ([email protected]), writing chapters 6 (training) & 8 (clusters): Richard Liaw is a software engineer at Anyscale, working on open source tools for distributed machine learning. He is on leave from the PhD program at the Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley, advised by Joseph Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, and Ken Goldberg.