Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala is a faculty member of the Department of Applied Data Science at San Jose State University and is the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society, Silicon Valley Chapter. He has over two decades of experience in the software industry and delivered several invited talks during his 3 year term as an ACM Distinguished speaker. He holds MBA in Finance and PhD, MS, and BE degrees in Computer Engineering from US and Indian universities. Dr. Pendyala taught a one-week course sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, under the GIAN program in 2017 to Computer Science faculty from all over the country and delivered the keynote in a similar program sponsored by AICTE, Government of India in 2022.