Alex is Chief Scientist & SVP of AI at Dataminr and Visiting Professor at Cornell Tech. He is a leader in AI and has built products that are used by millions of people (real-time event detection/emergency response, healthcare, self-driving cars, media, telecomm, etc.) at companies such as Yahoo, Telefónica, IBM, Fuji Xerox, Siemens, AT&T Bell Labs, DigitalOcean, etc. An early voice in Human-Centered AI (Computing), he has over 100 patents and publications in top tier conferences and journals in AI. He has been featured widely in the press (MIT Tech review, CNBC, Vice, TechCrunch, Yahoo! Finance, etc.). He is a mentor at Endeavor and Techstars, and a member of the advisory board of Digital Divide Data (a non-for-profit that creates sustainable tech opportunities for underserved youth, their families, and their communities in Asia and Africa). He was an expert in the Colombian Government’s Artificial Intelligence Expert Mission which advised the President on AI policies. Alex holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.