Ronald Holt was a part-time PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He was interested in developing deep learning applications to improve energy disaggregation (or non-intrusive load monitoring) leveraging multi-task based solutions. Ron is now Executive Director for Global Data Science at Estée Lauder. Previously he worked as Associate Director of Data Science at Merck and as a Sr. Data Scientist at ZimmerBiomet in Pittsburgh, PA. He has also worked in various research capacities at Vanderbilt University, and as a Data Scientist on the Research Team at HCA Healthcare in Nashville, TN.