Andreas François Vermeulen is Consulting Manager - Business Intelligence, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Computational Analytics at Sopra-Steria, and a doctoral researcher at University St. Andrews on future concepts in massive distributed computing, mechatronics, big data, business intelligence, and deep learning. He owns and incubates the “Rapid Information Factory” data processing framework. He is active in developing next-generation processing frameworks and mechatronics engineering with over 35 years of international experience in data processing, software development, and system architecture. Andre is a data scientist, doctoral trainer, corporate consultant, principal systems architect, and speaker/author/columnist on data science, distributed computing, big data, business intelligence, deep learning, and constraint programming. Andre received his bachelor degree at the North West University at Potchefstroom, his Master of Business Administration at University of Manchester, Master of Business Intelligence and Data Science degree at University of Dundee, and Doctor of Philosophy at University of St Andrews.
