Data Science & AI Executive with a 15-years track-record in Tech, Pharma and Consulting. Deloitte-Merck Digital Champion and IBM Distinguished Speaker, selected among the Top-100 of the Nation's outstanding young engineers by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering for the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering in 2015, and U.S. Big Data Chair of the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering in 2016. He held a tenure-track professorship at the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds a Doctorate with Medal in Machine Learning from ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.