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A multi-award-winning, and industry-recognized Artificial Intelligence (AI) leader with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade innovative products to market by building and leading high-performance engineering teams. • Former IBM Fellow (one of ~300 in 100+ year IBM history), IBM Master Inventor. • Former CTO for IBM Watson AI Operations Product. Built self-healing and self-optimizing IT systems with AI/ML leading the technical vision and execution with 600+ engineers. • Led and delivered several Cloud-based AI services that model people’s personality traits, emotions, communication tones, and sentiments serving billions of API calls. • Scaled Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), and Voice Assistant (aka Chatbot) technology services to multiple languages and industry domains. • Delivered award-winning (external and IBM internal) products in supply-chain optimization, business process management (BPM), and business analytics areas. • 100+ papers, 10+ book chapters in reputed international conferences and journals. 4 Best paper Awards. • 75+ patents (45+ issued patents and 20+ pending). • Led a World-Wide Web (W3C) standard in the area of Web Services - SA-WSDL (Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language) • Forbes ‘Top 20 Women in AI Research’ 2017, top 6 'A-team for AI' by Fortune Magazine 2018, 'Top 10 pioneering women in AI and Machine Learning' by Enterprise Management 360, 2019. • Alumnus of New York University Stern School of Business (MBA) (Gold medal), Utah State University (MS in Computer Science). • Specialties: Engineering leadership, Product Strategy, Product Development Leadership, Innovation, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), System Architecture, Business Process Management (BPM), and Decision Support Systems. • Prolific speaker at worldwide industry and academic conferences and analyst events. Delivered keynotes and sessions to thousands of attendees. • Featured in numerous online and print publications including Forbes, Fortune, NPR, BBC, Information Week, TechCrunch, Fast Company, and more.