He graduated w/Special Honors in ChE & later Cert. in Quality Mgmt. Syndicated research (silicon photonics); writes for trade press and web communities. Served Fortune 1000 and FTSE 250 companies in a variety of projects, including global market/product strategy and most recently deep analytics and forecasting. Following ten years in government research and management (Deputy Director, National Measurement Laboratory (US DoC NIST) and Chief, Chemical Engineering Division of NIST), Mr. Bateman worked at several start-ups in electronics and antennas, resulting in 100s of products and several patents. Mr. Bateman led efforts to bring design and manufacturing of telematics and in-building antennas to China and Malaysia, and was key in creating an Automotive Connectivity Unit in Laird, and led technical diligence for multiple acquisitions and creation of an Infrastructure Antenna Unit.

Ashish Ranjan Jha received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Roorkee (India), Masters degree in Computer Science from EPFL (Switzerland) and an MBA degree from Quantic School of Business (Washington). He has received distinction in all 3 of his degrees. He has worked for large technology companies like Oracle, Sony as well as the more recent tech unicorns such as Revolut, mostly focussed around Artificial Intelligence. He currently works as a Machine Learning Engineer. Ashish has several years of working experience and specialisation in the field of Machine Learning, and Python is his go-to tool.