Dr. Mumtaz Hannah Vauhkonen most recently served as Director of Artificial Intelligence, Lead Distinguished Scientist and Head of Multimodal and Edge AI at Verizon Communications. Prior to that she was a Lead ML Scientist at Ford Motor and Nissan Motor working on perception solutions for autonomous and Level 3 vehicles. She also worked on context-aware computing at Intel and enterprise application development at a Big 5 consulting firm. Mumtaz received her PhD in Computational Science and Engineering with a focus on deep learning and statistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her master’s from Harvard University.