Md. Rezaul Karim is a Research Scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He holds a BSc and an MSc degree in Computer Science. Before joining Fraunhofer FIT, he worked as a Researcher at Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Before this, he worked as a Lead Engineer at Samsung Electronics' distributed R&D Institutes in Korea, India, Turkey, and Bangladesh. Previously, he has worked as a Research Assistant at the database lab, Kyung Hee University, Korea. He also worked as an R&D engineer with BMTech21 Worldwide, Korea. Even before this, he worked as a Software Engineer with i2SoftTechnology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has more than 8 years of experience in the area of research and development with solid understanding of algorithms and data structures in C, C++, Java, Scala, R, and Python. He has published several books, articles, and research papers concerning big data and virtualization technologies, such as Spark, Kafka, DC/OS, Docker, Mesos, Zeppelin, Hadoop, and MapReduce. He is also equally competent with deep learning technologies such as TensorFlow, DeepLearning4j, and H2O. His research interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data, and Bioinformatics. Also, he is the author of the following book titles: . Large-Scale Machine Learning with Spark (Packt Publishing Ltd.) . Deep Learning with TensorFlow (Packt Publishing Ltd.) . Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics (Packt Publishing Ltd.)
