Rob Delaney is a Director at Carrick Capital Partners and Infinia ML’s CEO. 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.

One of the most widely published machine learning researchers in the world, Dr. Carin spent 25 years as a Professor of Engineering at Duke University. An IEEE Fellow, he has co-authored nearly 450 papers affecting fields as diverse as bomb detection, neuroscience, and voting behavior. Dr. Carin earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. Outside of the office, he spends every possible minute with his family and works hard to keep his body as fit as his mind.

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 responsible for shaping and sharing Infinia ML’s story. This includes hosting Machine Meets World, Infinia ML’s ongoing conversation about artificial intelligence. Guests have included innovative CEOs, leaders from John Deere to Lockheed Martin, and members of Congress.

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 trail running, fly fishing, and exploring the outdoors with his wife, son, 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.

Amberly Rowles-Lawson joins Infinia ML from Cisco Systems where she led a team developing test automation and devops solutions for Cisco’s virtual and cloud native firewall offerings.

Her background is in architecting product development and deployment workflows with a passion for maximizing efficiency and efficacy  Amberly received her MS in Computer Science from William & Mary and her BS in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Florida Institute of Technology.

When not at work you will find Amberly enjoying time outside with her horse and her dog, or working on learning a new crafting skill.

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.

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.

Growing up in 5 different states, Alicia learned to appreciate the diversity that is people. Different cultures, regions, backgrounds, and traditions proved fascinating. After earning a BA degree in Communications: Cinema from Elon University, Alicia naturally migrated to the place that specializes in people and positive experiences, The Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.  

After an unforgettable 9-year experience creating magic for Cast and Guests from all over the world, through a myriad of roles ranging from attractions hostess, to trainer, to special project assistant, Alicia moved to North Carolina to be near family. 

With her exceptional customer service and people skills along with a love of making people happy, Alicia’s positivity and peppy flair make her a perfect fit as Infinia ML’s Office & Culture Manager. 

In her free time, Alicia likes spending time outdoors hiking, camping, and gardening with her dog, Ducky, as well as singing with a local choir, reading fiction, and playing board games with the family.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After graduating from Clemson University with a degree in Chemistry, Eric worked as a researcher in a neuroscience lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center investigating Alzheimer’s Disease.  From there, Eric left the lab to serve as the Director of Marketing and Sales at CNS Vital Signs, a medical software company specializing in cognitive testing.

Eric is passionate about emerging technologies, and enjoys exploring machine learning 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.

Zach has worked on software applications that range from geographic technologies to data analytics for job compensation at PayScale. Most recently he built pivotal pieces of software for the StrongSalt privacy platform to help make data secure but sharable. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Maryland and is a self taught programmer.

Zach has always had a strong initiative to learn new things, and loves pursuing interesting side projects.

When he’s not working, he enjoys the beach with his wife and three kids, playing basketball and hanging out with family.

Prior to working for Infinia ML, Kyle studied at Flatiron’s cybersecurity analytics program, learning concepts of networking, system administration, threat analysis, and governance risk and compliance. He’s worked in group environments that included IT resource provisioning, log analysis, and cloud computing security concepts.  Kyle holds a handful of industry certifications including CompTIA Security+ and Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner

Kyle is a graduate of Grambling State University with a B. A. In Mass Communication. When he’s not working, he enjoys working out, playing saxophone, and practicing ethical hacking.

Soroush joined Infinia ML after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interest is interdisciplinary, spanning machine learning, IoT sensors, and computer vision in autonomous systems. In his doctoral research, he designed and prototyped a novel intelligent optical sensor for biomedical applications.

When not working, Soroush enjoys traveling with his family and learning new cultures, swimming, and reading.

James Hoctor holds an MS in Computer Science from Duke University and a BS in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before joining Infinia ML, he worked at Kitware on machine learning models for improved medical training. He previously worked at General Electric on artificial intelligence surrogate modeling of engineered systems.

James enjoys competitive coding with his girlfriend, Alina Jade Barnett. In 2019, they won second prize in the Duke AI for Art Competition. In 2020, they were the 80th team from more than 100,000 global contestants to complete part one on day four of the annual Advent of Code challenges.

Robert Judith holds a PhD in Physics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Engineering Physics from Tufts University. Before joining Infinia ML, he worked at Ntrepid on customer service projects focused on advanced analytics. His PhD research was focused on developing a microfluidic blood clotting diagnostic for trauma patients.

In his free time, Robert likes to cook, rock climb, and spend time with friends and family outdoors.

Kelsey is a project manager with experience managing software and data implementation projects. She started her career in pharmaceutical advertising and has a passion for developing thoughtful processes. She has worked in agencies in both New Jersey and North Carolina.

Kelsey has a BFA in Photography from the University of Hartford. In her spare time, she enjoys creative pursuits.