About the Author

Yuxian, Eugene Liang is a frontend engineer with working knowledge of UX and data mining / machine learning. He builds applications predominantly using JavaScript/Python, and related frameworks such as AngularJS, ReactJS, Node.js, Tornado, and Django. He led a team of two (including himself) to win Startup Weekend at Taiwan recently. He has also completed academic research on social network analysis (link prediction) using machine learning techniques, while interning as a frontend engineer at Yahoo!. To know more about him, visit http://www.liangeugene.com.

I am grateful for this opportunity and I want to thank the following people at Packt Publishing: Priyanka Shah, Kartik Vedam, Sageer Parkar, Meeta Rajani, and Anand Singh.

Special thanks to Professor Daphne Yuan, Professor Tsai-Yen Li, and Professor Pailin Chen of the National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, for providing me with timely and practical advice on how to carry out great research and how to deal with life.

To the good people of Service Science Research Center, Intelligent Media Lab, and the research team of the Flood and Fire research project, thank you for helping me out when I needed it the most.

I also want to thank XJL for helping me out and staying put when I most needed support.

Last but not least, I want to thank my family members and friends for their continued support.