Santanu Pattanayak works as a Senior Staff Machine Learning Specialist at Qualcomm Corp R&D and is the author of Quantum Machine Learning with Python, published by Apress. He has more than 16 years of experience, having worked at GE, Capgemini, and IBM before joining Qualcomm. He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and is an avid math enthusiast. Santanu has a master's degree in data science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad. He also participates in Kaggle competitions in his spare time, where he ranks in the top 500. Currently, he resides in Bangalore with his wife.