I am pleased to share the news of starting an interview series on data science and machine learning from the people that have inspired me, that have taught me (read are teaching me) about these beautiful subjects. The purpose of doing this is to mainly get insights about the real-world project experiences, perspectives on learning new things, some fun facts and thereby enriching the communities in the process. I sincerely thank the interviewees for taking the time out from their busy schedules and for agreeing to do these interviews. Here are the interviews I have done so far -