About the Author

Nishant Shukla (http://shukla.io) is a doctorate researcher at UCLA, focusing on machine learning and computer vision techniques with robotics. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Virginia. There, he was a founding member of Hack.UVA (http://hackuva.io), and he lectured for a widely attended course on Haskell (http://shuklan.com/haskell). Nishant has worked as a developer for Microsoft, Facebook, and Foursquare, and as a machine-learning engineer for SpaceX, and he is the author of Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook (http://haskelldata.com). In addition, he has published research papers on topics ranging from analytical chemistry to natural-language processing (http://mng.bz/e9sk). In his free time, he occasionally loses at Settlers of Catan and Gwent.