Dr. Nishant Chandra (Ph.D. In applied Machine Learning; Sr. Director, Data Products at VISA) is a global leader in the field of machine learning, natural language processing and AI. He has driven innovation in BFSI, e-commerce, R&D, and mobile telecom industries in USA and India. He has developed and implemented natural language predictive applications such as privilege text classification, contextual summarization, and conversational sentiment abstraction achieving significant potential impact by opening new possibilities in $8 billion market. He has received the prestigious Barrier fellowship and several other awards and recognition. The Department of Homeland Security, United States Government has classified Dr. Chandra as an outstanding researcher. He was the conference session chair for GSPx conference at San Jose, California. He has been a reviewer for IEEE transactions, served in the editorial board of Human Language Technology conference, and speaker at several international conferences. He also has five assigned patents and several journal and conference publications. Dr. Chandra is a passionate puzzler who invents puzzles and has represented India in the World Puzzle Championship at Stamford, Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University.