Dr. Sharath Pankanti

VP Data Science

Sharath Pankanti received a Ph.D. in computer science from Michigan State University in 1995. He worked in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Department at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center for over two decades in different capacities, including as a postdoctoral fellow, research staff member, research manager, and principal research scientist. He worked for Microsoft as a Principal Scientist from 2020-2022. In December 2022, Dr. Pankanti joined as a Vice President of Data Science at Bloom Value.

Dr. Pankanti’s vast practical hands-on expertise and passion for building scalable, fair, and trusted data science has been applied across diverse areas such as retail, healthcare, public safety, surveillance, and security. He has published over 150 scientific articles which have garnered over 36,000 citations with an h-index of 69. His innovative work has also resulted in over 150 patents. Dr. Pankanti's impactful and significant contributions have been recognized by many prestigious organizations such as IEEE (Fellow of IEEE), SPIE (Fellow of SPIE), OSA (Fellow of OSA), and IAPR (Fellow of IAPR).

Dr. Sharath Pankanti