Benyamin Ghojogh received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2015, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2017, and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering (in the area of pattern analysis and machine intelligence) from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2021. He was a postdoctoral fellow, focusing on machine learning, at the University of Waterloo, in 2021. He is the co-author of Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, published by Springer. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, dimensionality reduction, data science, and computer vision.Ali Ghodsi is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Director of the Data Science Lab, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on the theoretical foundations and algorithmic development of machine learning and artificial intelligence, with applications in natural language processing, bioinformatics, and computer vision. He is the co-author of Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning (Springer). His widely viewed online lectures — including a popular deep learning course — make advanced AI topics accessible to a global audience.