NVIDIA Certification Champions

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Burcin Bozkaya

Areas of Expertise:
LLMs, Gen AI, RAG, Behavioral Analytics

Interesting Project:
Helping partners build gen AI, LLM, RAG, agentic, and optimization solutions

Senior Developer Relations Manager
NVIDIA
Florida, USA

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & MM Associate Exams

Jim Brinksma

Areas of Expertise:
SaaS, AI, ML, Networking

Interesting Project:
Multi-cloud GPUaaS orchestration

SVP Software and Solutions
LightRiver Software
New York, USA

Contributions: AI Infrastructure & Operations Associate Exam, AI Operations, AI Infrastructure and AI Networking Professional Exams

Dr. Manal Jalloul

Areas of Expertise:
Gen AI, Accelerated Computing, Data Science

Interesting Project:
Develop DL solutions in automotive, pharma, smart cities, and more

Founder and CEO
AI Lab
Beirut, Lebanon

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & MM Associate Exams, Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Dr. Laszlo Kovacs

Areas of Expertise:
DL and AI in medical and automotive industries

Interesting Project:
AI/ML-based product development, and real-time product-related data analysis solutions to support production and quality steering

Research Scientist, Assistant Professor
BMW and University of Debrecen
Debrecen, Hungary

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & MM Associate, Accelerated Data Science Professional Exams

Vadim Kudlay

Areas of Expertise:
Deep Learning, Gen AI

Interesting Project:
Mimic Keras API using NumPy to implement MNIST classifier

Senior Content Developer, DLI
NVIDIA
Louisiana, USA

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

Kevin Lee

Areas of Expertise:
Data Science, Computer Vision, LLMs

Interesting Project:
AI agents

Senior Content Developer, DLI
NVIDIA
California, USA

Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Eric Phan

Areas of Expertise:
AI, ML, Data Science, and Robotics

Interesting Project:
Accelerating workflows with a single line of code

System Software Engineer
NVIDIA
California, USA

Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Ranjit Rajan

Areas of Expertise:
Data Processing, DL, Search, and Gen AI

Interesting Project:
Design and build accelerated data processing and gen AI solutions

Senior Solutions Architect
NVIDIA
Washington, USA

Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Mohammad Raza

Areas of Expertise:
Gen AI, Computer Vision, ML

Interesting Project:
Design and implement cutting-edge gen AI solutions for enterprise clients

Senior Solutions Architect
NVIDIA
Illinois, USA

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

Rodion Shkrobot

Areas of Expertise:
DevOps, Software Engineering and Architecture

Interesting Project:
Creating new CSPs, designing government AI-enabled security systems

Cloud Architect
SoftServe Inc.
Kiev, Ukraine

Contributions: AI Infrastructure & Operations Associate, AI Operations, AI Infrastructure Professional Exams

Shahar Siegman

Areas of Expertise:
NVIDIA AI Software Stack

Interesting Project:
Educate NVIDIA’s largest customers on how to utilize our AI software stack

Content Creator and Instructor, NVIDIA Academy
NVIDIA
Tel Aviv, Israel

Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Roman Syrotynskyi

Areas of Expertise:
Computer Networking

Interesting Project:
Operational support of corporate networking

Network Infrastructure Project Manager SoftServe Inc.
Kyiv, Ukraine

Contributions: AI Networking Professional Exam

David Taubenheim

Areas of Expertise:
Accelerated Data Science, Exploratory Data Analysis, LLM-Enabled System Development

Interesting Project:
Use LLMs to semantically search records to find new business opportunities

Senior Solutions Engineer
NVIDIA
Texas, USA

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

Dr. Ihor Vakulchyk

Areas of Expertise:
Machine Learning Operations

Interesting Project:
Design and implementation of the operations platform within an NVIDIA stack-based AI Factory

Machine Learning Operations Engineer
Match
British Columbia, Canada

Contributions: Accelerated Data Science Professional Exam

Gemma van der Voorst

Areas of Expertise:
Computer Networking, Virtualization

Interesting Project:
Design and build virtualized infrastructures for mission-critical workloads with HPC and vGPUs

IT Specialist
VMware
Groningen, Netherlands

Contributions: AI Infrastructure & Operations Associate, AI Operations, AI Infrastructure, AI Networking Professional Exam

Domen Verber

Areas of Expertise:
HPC, AI, Embedded Systems, Computer Languages

Interesting Project:
Intelligent real-time monitoring of patient’s vital signs with ML-based evaluation

Assistant Professor
University of Maribor
Slovenia

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

Xiaowei Zhao

Areas of Expertise:
Neural Network-Based Language Models, Deep Learning, and Conversational AI

Interesting Project:
Design and build virtualized infrastructures for mission-critical workloads with HPC and vGPUs

Professor of Psychology
Emmanuel College
Massachusetts, USA

Contributions: Gen AI LLM & Gen AI MM Associate Exams

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