About the authors

Cory Lesmeister has over fourteen years of quantitative experience and is currently a senior data scientist for the Advanced Analytics team at Cummins, Inc. in Columbus, Indiana. Cory spent 16 years at Eli Lilly and Company in sales, market research, Lean Six Sigma, marketing analytics, and new product forecasting. He also has several years of experience in the insurance and banking industries, both as a consultant and as a manager of marketing analytics. A former US Army active duty and reserve officer, Cory was stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2009 serving as the strategic advisor to the 29,000-person Iraqi Oil Police, succeeding where others failed by acquiring and delivering promised equipment to help the country secure and protect its oil infrastructure. Cory has a BBA in Aviation Administration from the University of North Dakota and a commercial helicopter license.

Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari has a Ph.D. in computer science (specializing in machine learning and natural language processing). He is an AI researcher with more than 14 years of industry experience. Currently, he works in the capacity of a lead data scientist with a US financial giant. He has published several research papers in Scopus and IEEE journals and is a frequent speaker at various meet-ups. He is an avid coder and has won multiple hackathons. In his spare time, Sunil likes to teach, travel, and spend time with family.