Dr. Hassibi is an expert, a pioneer, practitioner, and thought leader in the areas of data science, machine learning, and AI. His expertise is based on twenty plus years of design, R&D, consulting/sales, and management in applying these technologies to hard real-world business problems such as real-time fraud detection, hand-print OCR, robotics, marketing, risk, preventive maintenance, and transactional customer behavior analysis. Dr. Hassibi is recognized for his contributions to real-time payment card fraud detection (FalconTM) and has been a part of four machine learning startups focused on new data products and analytics-based business solutions. Most recently and prior to joining R Systems as Chief Data Scientist, he has been with SAS Institute and Altice USA (formerly Cablevision) with his main interest focused on new big data analytics and machine learning applications in financial and telecommunication industries. His has a recent book on machine learning and big data titled “High performance Data Mining and Big Data Analytics.” (http://www.bigdataminingbook.info)