Xiangxiang MengXiangxiang Meng, PhD, is a Senior Product Manager at SAS. The current focus of his work is on SAS Visual Statistics, cognitive computing, the Python interface to SAS Cloud Analytic Services, and other new product initiatives. Previously, Xiangxiang wrked on SAS LASR Analytic Server, SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop, SAS Recommendation Systems, and SAS Enterpriser Miner. His research interests include decision trees and tree ensemble models, automated and cognitive pipelines for business intelligence and machine learning, and parallelization of machine learning algorithms on distributed data. Xiangxiang received his PhD and MS from the University of Cincinnati. Read More Read Less