Authors

Yung-Hsiang Lu is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He is a Distinguished Scientist and Distinguished Speaker of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). He led a team that received an Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant from the National Science Foundation (IIP-1530914 “Business Analytics for Large Scale Intelligence”). In 2015, Dr. Lu and three Purdue students started a technology company using video analytics in physical stores to improve customer experience. This company received Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) from the National Science Foundation Phase I (IIP-1622082) and Phase II (IIP-1738492). In December 2018, the company received a Black Award from Elevate Purdue Foundry Fund. In 2019-2021, Dr. Lu is the Engineering Dean’s Fellow in Entrepreneurship coordinating the entrepreneurship programs on Purdue campus. In 2019, he obtained the Outstanding VIP-Based Entrepreneurship Award from the VIP (Vertically Integrated Project) Consortium for his contributions promoting entrepreneurship in VIP teams. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University

George K. Thiruvathukal is a professor in Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago and a visiting professor at Argonne National Laboratory. His research areas include high-performance computing, distributed systems, and software engineering with an emphasis on techniques to support parallel and distributed programming using modern software engineering practices, languages, and paradigms (e.g. object-oriented design and functional programming), cyber-physical systems, history of computing, computational and data science (applied to science and humanities problems), computing education, broadening participation, and social/societal issues in computing. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology.