Shengsheng (Shane) is currently a software architect at Intel and an Apache Spark committer/PMC member, leading the development of large-scale analytical applications and infrastructure on Spark in Intel. Her area of focus is distributed machine learning, especially deep (convolutional) neural networks. Previously at NUS (NationalUniversity of Singapore), her research interests are large-scale vision data analysis and statistical machine learning. She had been working at Intel as lead engineer on distributed big data framework (i.e. Hadoop, Spark) for over five years.