Dr. Nikravesh received his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering and AI in one year. He joined UC Berkeley for his Second Ph.D in Material Sciences & Engineering with full fellowship. Dr. Nikravesh received Honorary Doctorate in Economics. Dr. Nikravesh is a high level executive entrepreneur technologist with extensive science, engineering and leadership experience with a strong understanding of practical applications of Artificial Intelligence. I have served as AI & Chief Data Scientist, CTO, CEO, and SVP at valley companies. I have over 30 years of domain expertise & technical know-how in the field of AI & advanced analytics with main emphasis in Deep Learning/Machine Learning, and Deep Decision (R)Evolutionary Trees.Entrepreneurship & Economic Development- Knowledge & Artificial Intelligence Driven Economy: Dr. Nikravesh holds Honorary Doctoral Degree from Azerbaijan State University of Economics (2007). Other recipients are President of Azerbaijan- Honorable President Aliyev, Philip Nobel & many Economist Nobel Laureates. http://unec.edu.az/en/university/honorary-doctors/From 2000 to 20007, I served as BISC Executive Director & British Telecom Senior Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department, UCB. BISC is a world-leading center for basic and applied research in AI and Machine Learning with over 5,000 members worldwide (representing over several thousands of Centers, Universities, Institutes, companies & government agencies), (i.e. Omron Corporation, British Telecom, Chevron, Tekes, …) span over 60 countries (i.e. Canada, Australia, UK, Finland, France, Spain, Italy, China, Japan, …), & over 33,000 fuzzy-logic-related patents applied by members and is growing. In 2007, I developed the Computational Big Data, Science and Engineering (CSE/CDSE) Ph.D. Program at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with extensions at UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Merced. From 2007 to 2012, I served as the CSE Director- UC Berkeley and LBNL (over 22 Departments, over 300 Faculty and researchers, 4 UC Campuses, 100s of projects, and communication with C-Level Executives in Valley and worldwide). http://citris-uc.org/(LBNL Affiliation; 1995-2015)I worked Directly with Prof Zadeh (Mentor) from 1990 to 2017 (RIP-Sept 6, 2017) @ BISC Program, UC Berkeley. (Affiliation; 1990-2017).Director: Prof. L. Zadeh:https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/zadeh.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.htmlhttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6871507081539784704/Read more about this authorRead less about this author