About the Reviewers

Ahmad Abdel Mouti Assaf holds a PhD degree in computer science and specializes in semantic web and information retrieval from Telecom ParisTech. Before moving on to start a new venture with a start-up in London, he worked with the business intelligence team of SAP Labs, France. His work revolved around enabling smart workflows and the semantic enrichment of data in SAP HANA and Lumira.

In his spare time, he likes to toy with web development technologies, such as Node.js (JavaScript), Python, PHP, and so on. You can find more information about Ahmad at http://ahmadassaf.com.

Vitaliy Rudnytskiy is a principal architect at SAP, where he is involved in building SAP Developer Center (http://developers.sap.com). His main interests lie in big data and fast data solutions, analytics, and data visualizations. Vitaliy graduated from the University of Technologies in Wrocław, Poland. Before joining SAP, he spent 10 years as a technology consultant in the U.S. and Europe. Vitaliy's work has been published in various industry magazines. He writes on his blog (Vital BI) and has been a speaker at multiple conferences on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2010, he was nominated and selected as a member of the prestigious group of SAP Mentors (http://sapmentors.sap.com), the community of top influencers in the SAP ecosystem. You can reach him on Twitter and GitHub at <@Sygyzmundovych>.

Arjun Srinivasan is a graduate student pursuing computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA (USA). His primary research includes understanding how the techniques from visual analytics, information visualization, and machine learning can be leveraged effectively in the domains of business intelligence, product intelligence, and intelligence analysis. Arjun has previously worked at SAP Labs India. He has given multiple presentations on SAP Lumira and how it can be used by students in particular. To read more about his research and presentations, you can visit http://arjun010.github.io/.

Gang Tao is an experienced software architect with experience in the business intelligence, data visualization, and ERP domains. He is currently a software architect working on data acquisition for the big data platform. Gang has more than 15 years of experience in developing software for different domains. He graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and holds a master's degree in telecommunication network management.

Previously, he has worked at SAP and EMC and is currently working at Splunk.