Premkumar Natarajan

Prem Natarajan, PhD, is a distinguished executive and leader in artificial intelligence and data science, currently serving as Chief Scientist and Head of Enterprise Data and AI at Capital One and as a member of the Advisory Board at the University of Virginia's School of Data Science. With a rich history in academia and industry, Prem has held significant positions at the University of Southern California, where Prem is the Founding Executive Director of the USC Computing Forum, and has held multiple executive roles at Amazon, Behavioral Signal Technologies, and Raytheon BBN Technologies, focusing on technical strategy, product development, and growth in human language technologies. Prem's educational background includes a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, an Executive Program in Business Administration from MIT, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from COEP Technological University.