Ananth Sankaranarayanan is the Director of Engineering in the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, where he leads the team responsible for building AI platforms and solutions that scale for customers and partners worldwide across Cloud Service Providers, Enterprises, Government, and Communication Service Providers. Prior to his current role, Ananth led the Big Data Analytics Solutions team.  He has been with Intel since 2001 in various engineering leadership roles, holds two patents, and has authored several technical publications.