Lukas Biewald
- State of origin
- Massachusetts
- Favorite TV Show
- The Wire
- Interests
- Machine Learning, Go
Lukas was a Senior Scientist at Powerset where he designed the quality testing methodology and built the initial search result ranking algorithm. Prior to that he worked for Yahoo Search where he was the technical lead on the launch of ranking algorithms for Japan, Germany and other markets. He has an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University. As an undergraduate he won the Caltech Turing Tournament.
Chris Van Pelt
- State of origin
- Iowa
- Favorite TV Show
- MacGyver
- Interests
- Javascript, Beirut
Having managed teams of developers and architected countless web applications, Chris is well positioned to get some data annotated. He has a BA in both Computer Science and Art from Hope College. Powerset was his last gig where he was a code writing Product Manager. Chris is active in the Ruby community and has an unhealthy obsession with javascript. As an undergraduate Chris received the Herman Miller art award.