About the reviewer

Valerio Maggio is currently a Post-Doc Data Scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento, Italy, responsible for Machine and Deep Learning in the MPBA lab (Predictive Models for Biomedicine and Environment). Valerio has a Ph.D. in Computational Science from the University of Naples "Federico II" His research interests are focused on Machine Learning and Deep Learning applied to Software Maintenance and Computational Biology. Valerio is very much involved in the scientific Python community, and he is an active speaker at many Python conference.

He is also the lead organiser of PyCon Italy/PyData Florence, and EuroSciPy. He uses Python as the mainstream language for his deep/machine learning code, making an intensive use of Python to analyse, visualise, and learn from data. In the context of Deep Learning, Valerio is the author of a quite popular Keras/TensorFlow tutorial, publicly available on his GitHub Profile github.com/leriomaggio/deep-learning-keras-tensorflow and presented in many conferences (EuroSciPy, PyData London, PySS) and University courses. Valerio is also passionate about (black) tea, and an "old-school" Magic The Gathering (MTG) player, who enjoys playing and teaching MTG to newbies.