Ruze Richards is a data scientist and software architect who started life as a Physics major and got highly interested in what was then the cutting-edge notion of neural nets. After his first job at Bell Labs he ended up pursuing a career in software architecture and distributed systems development until hardware caught up in the past decade allowing effective applications of machine learning of all flavors. Today, he is passionate about sharing what he has learned and is also the organizer of the New York Machine Learning Workshop meetup group.