Joshua Kimball is in the final year of his PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, which he completed while working as the Chief Data Scientist for a local AdTech startup. His research lies at the intersection of Systems and Database with an emphasis on data management and applied machine learning. Prior to Georgia Tech, he completed a Masters at Georgia Tech and built financial derivative processing systems at Bank of New York Mellon. He complete his undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University.