Dr. Siddhartha Dalal is Professor of Professional Practice in Applied Analytics at the School of Professional Studies, Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia University, Professor Dalal was Chief Data Scientist and Sr. VP at AIG, where he was in charge of R&D that included creation and application of AI, Statistics and CS to Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Sensors/IOT for managing risks. He came to AIG from RAND Corporation, where was the CTO. He has also served as VP of Research at Xerox, overseeing their worldwide imaging and software services research, and Bell Labs and Bellcore/SAIC as Chief Scientist and Executive Director. Professor Dalal has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, patents, and monographs covering the areas of risk analysis, medical informatics, Bayesian statistics and economics, image processing and sensor networks. He is a member of US Army Science Board, an advisory board of 20 scientists appointed by Secretary of Defence to advise US Army on technology, and has received several awards including from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Statistical Association (ASA), and American Society for Quality (ASQ). Professor Dalal holds an PhD in Statistics and MBA from the University of Rochester.