Andreas François Vermeulen is Chief Data Scientist and Solutions Delivery Manager at Sopra-Steria and he serves as part-time doctoral researcher and senior research project advisor at University of St. Andrews on future concepts in health care systems, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, massive distributed computing, mechatronics, at-scale data lake technology, data science, business intelligence (BI), and deep machine learning in health informatics.
Andre maintains and incubates the Rapid Information Factory data processing framework. He is active in developing next-generation data processing frameworks and mechatronics engineering with over 36 years of global experience in complex data processing, software development, and system architecture. He is an expert data scientist, doctoral trainer, corporate consultant, and speaker/author/columnist on data science, business intelligence, machine learning, decision science, data engineering, distributed computing, and at-scale data lakes.
