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Dr. Umeshwar DAYAL, is currently a Corporate Chief Scientist of Hitachi. He joined Hitachi America, Ltd. in 2013 after serving as an HP Fellow in Intelligent Information Management and Director of the Information Analytics Lab at HP Labs. At the Hitachi America R&D Division, he led work on AI/big data analytics, and collaborative creation activities with customers as the Head of the Big Data Laboratory, and later as the GM of the Silicon Valley Research Center. Dayal was appointed to his current position in April 2020, after serving as the Head of the Global Center for Social Innovation responsible for the open co-innovation of novel digital solutions.

Dr. Dayal is an ACM Fellow, a recipient of the Edgar F. Codd Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) for fundamental contributions to data management, and a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science. He has over 250 research publications, holds over 60 patents, and has given over 40 keynote and invited lectures at international conferences and workshops. He has served on the Steering Committees of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Data Mining, and on the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment. He has served as General Chair, Program Chair, and Program Committee member of numerous international conferences, and on the Editorial Board of several journals.