Swami Chandrasekaran - ebooki

Swami Chandrasekaran (@swamichandra) is a managing director at KPMG's AI Innovation & Enterprise Solutions. He leads the architecture, technology, creation of AI + emerging tech offerings as well as innovation efforts. He has led the creation of products and solutions that have solved a wide range of problems in areas such as tax and audit, industrial automation, aviation safety, contact centers, insurance claims, field service, multimedia enrichment, social care, digital marketing, M&A, and KYC. These solutions have leveraged automation, ML/DL, NLP, advanced analytics, as well as RPA, cloud and IoT capabilities. He is currently also driving explainable and trusted AI efforts.

Previously, he spent 12 years at IBM, out of which 5 years were spent in the core Watson division. He led an organization that drove innovation and also creation + incubation of several solutions that leveraged Watson and IBM Cloud capabilities. He was also responsible for creating a library of Watson Accelerators that were used by several clients and field teams to accelerate their adoption of AI across various industries. He was appointed as one of their most elite IBM Distinguished Engineer.

Prior to Watson, he worked in IBM's WebSphere division and led efforts in the areas of OSS/BSS transformation, Cloud Service Broker + Storefronts, Digital Media Supply Chain, Mobile Payments, Smart Metering, Real-time Campaigns using middleware, BPM & SOA capabilities.

Prior to IBM, he worked at Webify Solutions (acquired by IBM), BearingPoint, and Ericsson Research. He holds a master’s in electrical engineering from UT Arlington, has filed about 20 patents and an IBM Master Inventor. He lives in Dallas with his wife Ramya, and two lovely daughters. Swami has also authored a couple of books on SOA and BPM. He is an avid video gamer, and when he finds the time, he writes on http://nirvacana.com and tweets with the handle @swamichandra.