Krishna Sankar is a Distinguished Engineer – AI, at the Chief Digital Office of U.S. Bank, focusing on embedding intelligence – all aspects incl AI Ethics, Explainability and Conversational AI, in the financial sector. 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 and Lego Robotics. He has been speaking at various conferences incl Nvidia GTC2019 and GTC2020 [https://goo.gl/bxw6Qd], ML tutorials at Strata SJC & LONDON 2016, Spark Summit and others. His occasional blogs can be found at https://medium.com/@ksankar. They include Conversational AI [bit.ly/37PjPBh], Rebooting AI [bit.ly/2ststqi41], The Excessions of xAI [bit.ly/2LDXe2c], Robots Rules[goo.gl/5yyRv6], NeurIPS2018 [goo.gl/VgeyDT] and Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking [goo.gl/9qv671] He has done guest lecturing at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey; and you will find him at the FLL (Lego Robotics) World Competition as Robots Design Judge

