Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma is the CEO and Founder of Cambridge Spark , a leading learning organisation for data scientists and developers. In particular, Cambridge Spark has developed K.A.T.E.® , a proprietary AI-powered learning and assessment platform for Data Science, with the support of the UK innovation agency (£1.4million funding). He also founded and runs Cambridge Coding Academy , a growing community of young coders and pre-university students.
He is author of several programming books, including the best-seller “ Modern Java in Action: lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming ” which sold over 30,000 copies globally and with a second edition published in November 2018 as well as “ Real-World Software Development ” published in December 2019.
Raoul holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University as well as a MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London and graduated with first-class honours, having won several prizes for technical innovation. His research interests lie in the area of programming languages, compilers, source code analysis, machine learning and education.