Shengsheng Huang,Software architect, Intel. Shengsheng (Shane) Huang is currently a software architect at Intel leading the development of large-scale analytical applications and infrastructure on Spark in Intel as well as an Apache Spark committer and PMC member. Shane’s area of focus is distributed machine learning, especially deep (convolutional) neural networks. Previously at NUS (the National University of Singapore), her research interests are large-scale vision data analysis and statistical machine learning. Before that, she worked at Intel as lead engineer on distributed big data frameworks (e.g., Hadoop and Spark) for over six years.