Som Shahapurkar, Director of Machine Learning / AI products at FICO

Som's Bio:

Som Shahapurkar is principal scientist (analytics) at FICO and works on innovation and go-to-market strategy for data science, machine-learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) products. Before FICO, Som led SaaS development for Verizon Telematics where he deployed the agile framework. Prior to that, during his 14-year tenure at Intel he deployed data science/Big-Data/AI/machine-learning in the Internet of Things (IOT). He seeded the technology/business assessment on self-driven cars that subsequently led to the $15 Billion acquisition of Mobile-Eye. He founded a startup in machine learning for energy management which won several business-plan competitions including the southwest Clean-Tech Open. Som is a Lean Six Sigma Black belt. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science. His patent on deploying machine-learning production systems is cited by 11 subsequent Google patents. Som likes to teach, bicycle for charitable causes, and travel with his family.