ALEX ZAI has worked as Chief Technology Officer at Codesmith, an immersive coding bootcamp where he remains a Technical Advisor, as a software engineer at Uber, and as a machine learning engineer at Banjo and Amazon and he is a contributor to the open source deep learning framework Apache MXNet. He is also an entrepreneur who has co-founded two companies, one of which was a Y-combinator entrant.
BRANDON BROWN grew up programming and worked as a part-time software engineer through college but ended up pursuing a career in medicine; he worked as a software engineer in the healthcare technology space along the way. He is now a physician and is pursuing his research interests in computational psychiatry inspired by deep reinforcement learning.