About the Authors

Dr. PKS Prakash is a data scientist and an author. He has spent the last 12 years developing many data science solutions to problems from leading companies in the healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and e-commerce domain. He is working as a Data Science Manager at ZS Associates.

ZS is one of the world's largest business service firms, helping clients with commercial success by creating data-driven strategies using advanced analytics, which they can implement within their sales and marketing operations to make them more competitive, and by helping them deliver impact where it matters.

Prakash obtained a PhD in Industrial and System Engineering from Wisconsin-Madison, US. He defended his second PhD in Engineering from University of Warwick, UK. His educational background also includes a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, and a bachelor's degree from National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), India. He is the co-founder of Warwick Analytics, which is based on his PhD work from the University of Warwick, UK.

Prakash is published widely in research areas of operational research and management, soft computing tools, and advance algorithms in leading journals such as IEEE-Trans, EJOR, and IJPR, among others. He has edited an issue of Intelligent Approaches to Complex Systems and contributed to Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing, published by Wiley, and Algorithms and Data Structures Using R, published by Packt.

Achyutuni Sri Krishna Rao is a data scientist, a civil engineer, and an author. He has spent the last four years developing many data science solutions to problems from leading companies in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. He is working as a Data Science Consultant at ZS Associates.

Sri Krishna's background includes a master's degree in Enterprise Business Analytics and Machine Learning from National University of Singapore, Singapore. His educational background also includes a bachelor's degree from National Institute of Technology Warangal, India.

Sri Krishna is published widely in research areas of civil engineering. He has contributed to a book titled Algorithms and Data Structures Using R, published by Packt.