Bio

Jo-fai (or Joe) joined Datapane in 2022. Before joining Datapane, Joe had multiple roles (data scientist / evangelist / community manager) at H2O.ai. Since joining the company in 2016, Joe delivered H2O talks/workshops in 40+ cities across Europe, Asia, and the US. He was also the co-organiser of H2O's worldwide meetup groups including London Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning - one of the biggest data science communities in the world with more than 12,000 members (https://www.meetup.com/London-Artificial-Intelligence-Deep-Learning/). Joe has a background in water engineering. Before his data science journey, he was an EngD researcher at STREAM Industrial Doctorate Centre working on machine learning techniques for drainage design optimisation. Prior to that, he was an asset management consultant specialising in data mining and constrained optimisation for the utility sector in the UK and abroad. He also holds an MSc in Environmental Management and a BEng in Civil Engineering. Long before Joe immersed himself in the world of open-source R and Python, he learned his trade as an avid MATLAB user. When he was a kid, his parents taught him one of the famous old Chinese sayings - when one drinks water, one must not forget where it comes from. So when Twitter asked Joe to be creative, he simply put down @matlabulous as his handle. In the summer of 2014, his data visualisation side project 'CrimeMap' led him to a poster presentation at useR! 2014 where he heard about H2O for the very first time. He has been using H2O for various data science projects ever since.