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Amita Kapoor is an associate professor in the Department of Electronics,
SRCASW, University of Delhi, and has been actively teaching neural networks and
artificial intelligence for the last 20 years. Coding and teaching are her two passions,
and she enjoys solving challenging problems. She is a recipient of the DAAD
Sandwich fellowship 2008, and the Best Presentation Award at an international
conference, Photonics 2008. She is an avid reader and learner. She has co-authored
books on Deep Learning and has more than 50 publications in international journals
and conferences. Her present research areas include machine learning, deep
reinforcement learning, quantum computers, and robotics.
To my grandmother the late Kailashwati Maini for her unconditional love
and affection; and my grandmother the late Kesar Kapoor for her marvelous
stories that fueled my imagination; my mother, the late Swarnlata
Kapoor, for having trust in my abilities and dreaming for me; and my
stepmother, the late Anjali Kapoor, for teaching me every struggle can
be a stepping stone.
I am grateful to my teachers throughout life, who inspired me, encouraged
me, and most importantly taught me: Prof. Parogmna Sen, Prof. Wolfgang
Freude, Prof. Enakshi Khullar Sharma, Dr. S Lakshmi Devi, Dr. Rashmi
Saxena and Dr. Rekha Gupta.
I am extremely thankful to the entire Packt team for the work and effort
they put in since the inception of this book, the reviewers who painstakingly
went through the content and verified the codes; their comments and
suggestions helped improve the book. I am particularly thankful to my coauthors
Antonio Gulli and Sujit Pal for sharing their vast experience with
me in the writing of this book.
I would like to thank my college administration, governing body and
Principal Dr. Payal Mago for sanctioning my Sabbatical leave so that I
can concentrate on the book. I would also like to thank my colleagues for
the support and encouragement they have provided, with a special mention
of Dr. Punita Saxena, Dr. Jasjeet Kaur, Dr. Ratnesh Saxena, Dr. Daya
Bhardwaj, Dr. Sneha Kabra, Dr. Sadhna Jain, Mr. Projes Roy, Ms. Venika
Gupta and Ms. Preeti Singhal.
I want to thank my family members and friends my extended family
Krishna Maini, Suraksha Maini, the late HCD Maini, Rita Maini, Nirjara
Jain, Geetika Jain, Rashmi Singh and my father Anil Mohan Kapoor.
And last but not the least I would like to thank Narotam Singh for his
invaluable discussions, inspiration and unconditional support through all
phases of my life.
A part of the royalties of the book will go to smilefoundation.org.