Parashar ShahParashar Shah is a senior program/product manager on the Azure AI engineering team at Microsoft, leading big data and deep learning projects to help increase adoption of AI in enterprises especially automated ML with Spark. At Microsft and at Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs prior to that, his contributions increased global adoption of AI/analytics platform contributing to customers' growth in retail, manufacturing, telco, and oil and gas verticals. Parashar has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a B.E. (E.C.) from Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad. He also cofounded a carpool startup in India. He has also coauthored Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure: Build Powerful Models with Cognitive Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Packt), published in November 2018. He has filed for five patents. He has presented at multiple Microsoft and external conferences, including Spark summit and KDD. His interests span the subjects of photography, AI, machine learning, automated ML, big data, and the internet of things (IoT). Read More Read Less