Krishna Sankar is a Distinguished Engineer – AI, at the Enterprise Analytics & AI (EAA) of U.S. Bank, focusing on embedding intelligence in Financial Systems; all aspects incl the E3 of AI - Explainability, Experimentation & AI Ethics. Earlier stints include Senior Data Scientist/Volvo, Chief Data Scientist/blackarrow.tv, Data Scientist/Tata America Intl, Director of Data Science/Bioinformatics startup & as a Distinguished Engineer/Cisco. His external work includes teaching, writing blogs, researching chess openings and Lego Robotics. He has been speaking at various conferences incl NeurIPS 2020 (Moderated 2 panels), RE.WORK [bit.ly/3712jKG], Nvidia GTC2019 and GTC2020, ML tutorials at Strata SJC & London, Spark Summit and others. His occasional blogs can be found at https://ksankar.medium.com/ viz. Conversational AI [bit.ly/37PjPBh], Rebooting AI [bit.ly/2ststqi41], The Excessions of xAI [bit.ly/2LDXe2c], Robots Rules[goo.gl/5yyRv6], NeurIPS 2018 [goo.gl/VgeyDT], Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking [goo.gl/9qv671] and a lot of Sci-Fi and crime noirs ! He has been guest lecturing at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey; and you will find him occasionally at the FLL (Lego Robotics) World Competition as Robots Design Judge.

