One of the most widely published machine learning researchers in the world, Lawrence has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University for the past 22 years. Lawrence is an IEEE Fellow and has co-authored over 350 papers affecting fields as diverse as bomb detection, neuroscience, and voting behavior. Lawrence earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. Outside of the office, Lawrence spends every possible minute with his family and works hard to keep his body as fit as his mind.

Rob Delaney is a Vice President at Carrick Capital Partners and Infinia ML’s COO. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Before that, Rob worked for Accenture as a consultant for venture capital and technology clients and then as a Corporate M&A specialist.

Rob studied Government and Law and Economics at Lafayette College, where he was also Captain of the basketball team.

Robbie Allen was Infinia ML’s founding CEO. Under his leadership, the company was recognized as one of the Triangle’s “Best Places to Work” for two years in a row. Robbie is currently a Senior Advisor and trusted thought leader on behalf of the company. You can read his work at MachineLearningInPractice.com.

Previously, Robbie successfully founded, grew, and sold the company Automated Insights. During his tenure as CEO, Automated Insights was named one of the “Best Places to Work” in the region of four years in a row. Before Automated Insights, Robbie was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco.

Robbie earned his MS in Engineering and Management from MIT and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Robbie owns six patents and has authored eight books. When he’s not working, inventing, or bragging about his UNC Tar Heels, he’s focused on his family and teaching the next generation of game-changing developers.

Prior to Infinia ML, Ya was a senior machine learning scientist for Align Technologies. Ya has worked for Siemens Medical Solutions, GE Global Research, and two startups. She has worked on over 20 projects spanning a wide range of application domains, such as industrial-system monitoring, security surveillance, renewable energy, online recommendations, and treatment planning. She has coauthored 7 patents. Ya received BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Arizona State University, and Duke University respectively. The focus of her Ph.D. work was machine learning and statistical data modeling, and her publications have received 2500+ citations. Ya’s professional passion lies in putting theory into practice to create tangible results, but outside the office her attention is focused on her family and children.

James is the former Head of Communications for Automated Insights, where he translated concepts of natural language generation for a global audience. He later started his own firm to help technology marketers tell customer stories.

As a professional content creator for over a decade, he’s worked with brands including YouTube, Politico, Business Insider, LinkedIn, and DHL. He’s spoken about customer storytelling from North Carolina to South Korea, and you can see his on-camera interviews with leading executives every year at the CES electronics trade show.

Josh was previously the Director of Global DevOps for SolarWinds after holding security and engineering roles at iContact.

Earlier in his career, Josh worked with the State of North Carolina to help build NCWISE, which was the world’s largest centralized Student Information System for K-12 Public Education.

While Josh is fascinated by many aspects of information security, he is particularly interested in behavioral analytics, especially as they pertain to incident response (Is this a team of two attackers or five? How are they different? What will they do next? Why are they here?). He is also passionate about building strong security programs organizationally around a positive and receptive culture.

Personal interests include the Internet of Things, working with his kids to repair small engine items such as lawn mowers and generators, cooking, and people watching.

Before joining Infinia ML, Mike worked with large institutions to tackle complex, sensitive enterprise data challenges at Palantir Technologies. He was also previously a Director at CEB (now Gartner) where he helped C-level executives at Fortune 500 firms solve critical business problems.

Mike brings additional experience at the international development company DAI and conducted independent research as a Fulbright Fellow in Amman, Jordan.

Outside of work you’ll find Mike cycling, fly fishing, and exploring the outdoors with his wife and dog.

Xiangqian (XQ) Hu joins Infinia ML from SAS® as Senior Software Manager, where he developed various machine learning algorithms on big data with distributed computing systems, including data analysis, decision tree, random forest, neural networks, recommender system, and clustering algorithms. He led a deep learning team at SAS® to build the SAS® deep learning framework from scratch on the SAS Viya® platform.  This framework has powered common deep learning tasks ranging from tabular data to computer vision to natural language processing to speech-to-text. It is also seamlessly integrated with SAS® Event Stream Processing to make model management and deployment readily available on any environment.

XQ earned his Ph.D. in Quantum Chemistry at Peking University in Beijing and currently owns 5 patents in machine learning, including fast quantile calculations, interactive decision trees, and model compression. In his free time, he enjoys reading to sharpen the mind, running to keep healthy, and spending time with his family.

Prior to joining the Infinia ML founding team, Jun served as Principal Research Statistician Developer for SAS. Other experience includes time as a Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Research, Postdoc/Research Scientist at Arizona State University, Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Principal Scientist at Didi Chuxing. Jun owns 50+ papers with 3000+ citations and 11 US patents for his work in medical imaging and machine learning including his work developing the SLEP package, a custom algorithm used for large scale structured sparse learning. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. When not solving complex math problems, Jun likes running and spending time with his two young sons, one of whom wants to be a mathematician, just like his Dad.

Before joining Infinia ML, Patrick served as a Principal at the startup Signal Innovations Group (acquired by BAE Systems), where he led research and development projects for defense and intelligence applications of statistical signal processing and machine learning. Patrick earned the M.S. degree in Applied Mathemetics and Scientific Computation from the University of Maryland. He enjoys hiking with his wife and dog and is an avid curler (yes, with the stones and the brooms).

Ricardo is a respected expert in machine learning. He serves as Assistant Professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University and is a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He also regularly serves as a reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and many others. He has coauthored more than 50 academic papers in fields such as machine learning, biostatistics, neuroscience, cancer and infectious disease.

Sunith graduated with an MS in Statistical Science from Duke University where he focused on building Bayesian models and statistical machine learning. Previously, he worked in the investment sector for five years. He has had the good fortune of being on the front lines of both business and technology. In his free time, he enjoys weightlifting, hiking, cooking and comedy.

Hongteng is a research scientist in Infinia ML and a visiting faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

His research interests include machine learning and its applications, especially sequential data modeling and analysis, deep learning techniques, and their applications in computer vision and data mining. He enjoys reading, cooking and traveling on vacations.

Before joining Infinia ML, Justin was an Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology. His research focused on analysis of astrophysical data for gravitational wave detection, and he led a multi-institute team of researchers in statistical analysis and software development.

Justin received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and has authored or co-authored 57 peer-reviewed publications. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife and dog, reading, and exercising.

Prior to joining Infinia ML, Ryan was a Project Engineer at Vadum, Inc., where he worked on defense-related machine learning libraries and scientific computing projects. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. As a graduate student, he researched the optimization of data compression for a distributed computing algorithm with machine learning, signal processing, and control applications.

In his free time, Ryan likes to cook, play ultimate Frisbee, and play the guitar.

Laxmi Amulya Gundala is an MS in Computer Science graduate from Boise State University. Her research and thesis projects focused on Data Science with Social Network Analysis. Before pursuing her graduate studies, she worked at Infosys Ltd. as Systems Engineer for a year.

As a Data Engineer, Laxmi works on data analysis and pre-processing of client data. She also works closely with data scientists to build applications focused on data-driven decisions. She likes to dance, listen to music, and cook Indian food in her leisure time.

Carissa is Office Manager & Executive Assistant at Infinial ML. Previously, she worked at Globant, LLC (pre-acquisition: PointSource), where she managed the Raleigh and Chicago offices and supported four executives while coordinating integration activities after the acquisition. She is excited to work with such a talented and engaging team.

Outside of work, Carissa is a worldwide traveler and an avid reader. She also enjoys exercising and spending time with friends and family.

Kevin comes to Infinia ML from ReverbNation, where he played a key role developing web applications from concept to prototype to production. Most recently, he helped ReverbNation take to market a new line of business, leading the frontend web development efforts. Prior roles had Kevin working with data scientists to derive business solutions.

Kevin holds a BS in Integrated Science & Technology from James Madison University. When not in front of a computer, he likes to get out into nature with his wife and vizsla.

A professional software engineer since 2000,  Ryan joins Infinia ML with experience designing and developing software for several large companies. He’s worked in fields including enterprise and network management, genetic sequencing and instrumentation, and tax management.

When not at work, Ryan enjoys exercising and being outdoors, learning new technologies, and spending time with his family. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science & Computer Software Engineering from William Paterson University of New Jersey.

Ethan comes to Infinia ML from Oracle + Bronto, where he spent four years learning about time series data, software deployment, and service oriented architecture.  He led a team that built and adopted several new technologies in those spaces.  He has a B.S. in Computer Science from NC State University.

Before joining the Infinia ML team, Coleman was a Marketing Specialist at the communications software company Bandwidth. With a passion for innovative technology and learning, she currently manages Infinia’s inbound marketing strategy while pursuing her B.A. in Communication at North Carolina State University.

Arshita Gupta is a Data Scientist at Infinia ML with a Masters from North Carolina State University in Electrical Engineering.  Prior to joining Infinia ML, she was interning as a data scientist in a company that focuses on applying technology and data science to improve outcomes for customers.

Before joining Infinia ML, John worked for a Durham, NC based startup as a machine learning engineer. There he applied machine learning techniques to perform medical document analysis with the goal of creating more patient-friendly medical reports.

Prior to this he received an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University. During his graduate studies, he preformed research in applying machine learning and computer vision techniques to the problem of landmine detection.  In his free time, John enjoys lifting weights and trying new restaurants.

Yicheng holds an M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University. Previously he interned at Huawei, Sunwin, and Qfeeltech, where he was responsible for building deep learning models for computer vision tasks and designing software algorithms. Yicheng is interested in applying deep learning methods in various areas like finance and healthcare. He is a person who always wants to change the world with the knowledge he has.

Outside of work, Yicheng enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his cat.

Mandar joined InfiniaML after graduating with his Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. His doctoral research focused on novel methods for discovering causal relationships from observational data. During this time, Mandar interned at Motorola where he built machine learning models for predicting customer satisfaction from text.

Mandar also holds an M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Gujarat Technological University. In his leisure time, Mandar enjoys traveling, hiking and swimming.

Before joining Infinia ML, Ben was a physicist analyzing gravitational-wave data as a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). His research focused on modeling and interpreting waveforms and was involved in the first detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes and binary neutron stars.

Ben received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, then did postdocs at Princeton University, Syracuse University, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. In his free time, he enjoys rock climbing, running, backpacking, playing the piano, and traveling.

Eric has been passionate about innovation and technology for as long as he can remember. After graduating from Clemson University with a degree in Chemistry, he worked as a researcher in a molecular genetics lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center investigating Alzheimer’s Disease. There, he got the opportunity to focus on brain health in a new way: through medical software.

He left a life in the lab to make functional cognitive testing more available in medical clinics around the country through advancements in telehealth. Eric is new to the machine learning space, and is looking forward to exploring its creative applications in business environments.

When Eric isn’t working, you can find him on the golf course, watching Clemson sports, playing USTA tennis, or experimenting in the kitchen.

Kosta is a software engineer with experience delivering web oriented applications using the latest technologies. He joined Infinia ML to pursue his passion for Python, web applications and machine learning. He believes that machine learning is a unique way of developing modern society.

He has an MS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Economics. This combination of knowledge helps him make weighted solutions to the vast majority of problems.

Kosta spends his free time hiking, visiting parks and traveling North Carolina with his family and kids.