About: I am a Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at Illinos Tech, and the co-director of the Real-Time Communications Laboratory. I am also the Chief Data Scientist at Vail Systems, Inc., where I established and now lead a research group on machine learning, data science and AI activities across the company, from idea inception to conceptual proof to prototype, and finally, a product that gets deployed. My work at Vail Systems includes models that involve affective computing, anomaly detection in large datasets, and AI/ML models in the realm of software engineering and log analysis, among other responsibilities. I also hold an appointment as a Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg in the SEDAN (Services and Data Management) research group headed by Prof. Radu State. As part of my fellowship appointment, I work with Ph.D. students on selected projects and have appeared on the Ph.D. committee of a number of students.