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Rohit Nimmala

Rohit is a Senior Data Engineer with over 10 years of experience in data engineering and machine learning, primarily in financial services. His research focuses on applying ML to climate risk analytics, credit risk modeling, and financial forecasting. He has authored 30 peer-reviewed papers and serves on editorial boards for six journals, including Elsevier's Engineering Applications of AI and IEEE Access. He's a BCS Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, and SCRS Distinguished Fellow. Rohit has delivered keynotes at conferences in the US, Netherlands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bahrain, and the UAE, and has judged over 100 tech awards including the Global Business Tech Awards and CES Innovation Awards. He also sits on advisory councils for WUST's WISE Accelerator and Products that Count. He holds an M.S. in Information Technology from the University of Cincinnati.

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Viswanathan Ranganathan

Viswanathan is a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Netflix, working on deployment infrastructure, developer platforms, and applied AI. He's spent 11 years building reliable systems across healthcare, e-commerce, communications, enterprise software, and streaming. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston and is an active member of the ACM Fremont Chapter.

Siva Rama K Varma Bayyavarapu

Siva is a Lead Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in large-scale enterprise cloud systems. His work covers distributed architectures, API ecosystems, event-driven platforms, and AI-driven automation. He's a Distinguished Fellow of SCRS and Fellow of IETE, and publishes and reviews for IEEE and international conferences.

Vivek Venkatesan

Vivek Venkatesan is a Lead Data Engineer at The Vanguard Group with over 16 years of experience in data engineering, cloud analytics, enterprise data platforms, and AI/ML data infrastructure across financial services and healthcare. His work focuses on building scalable, reliable, and cost-conscious data systems that support analytics, automation, and responsible AI adoption. Vivek is an IEEE Senior Member, Fellow of the British Computer Society, and an active contributor to the technology community through research, mentoring, peer review, and professional service. His recent interests include AI-augmented data engineering, privacy-preserving healthcare AI, federated learning, explainable AI, serverless architectures, and cloud-native data platforms. As Secretary of the Charlotte ACM Chapter, Vivek looks forward to supporting the chapter’s mission by strengthening member engagement, helping organize knowledge-sharing initiatives, and creating an inclusive space for professionals, students, and researchers interested in computing, data, and emerging technologies.

Shravya Shekar

Shravya is a design verification enthusiast with experience in building and validating digital systems. She has worked across computer architecture and hardware verification, with a strong focus on practical, hands-on learning. During her time at North Carolina State University, she spent two years in research developing reusable biomedical devices. She is passionate about bridging academic concepts with real-world applications and is an active member of ACM.

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