Dr. Vala, founder of Data Corner company, has a PhD of Computer Science and currently managing several analytics projects as a Chief Data Scientist. He has developed a series of sentiment predictive algorithms to analyse millions of social data using machine learning techniques.

He also has several international certificates in Analyzing Social Networks (University of Michigan), Mining Massive Datasets (Stanford University), Hadoop Framework (University of California), Process Mining (Eindhoven University), and Practical Machine Learning (Johns Hopkins University) Meanwhile, he has also served as a postdoctoral fellow in complex systems research group at University of Malaya. During his PhD studies, he was honored as a member of Bright Sparks Programme in UM and won several research grants.

Dr. Vala is renowned for his research and expertise on Data Science, Social Networks Analysis (SNA), Big Data Analysis, Process Mining, and Recommender Systems. He has more than 10 years experience as lecturer in universities and has published several articles in international conferences and scholarly journals