Vishnu Pendyala is an accomplished and award-winning technical leader with over two decades of Silicon Valley industry experience, currently serving as Faculty in Applied Data Science at San Jose State University (SJSU). His extensive expertise spans Technical Management, Software Engineering, Big Data, Machine Learning, Product Development, and Data Protection. He is a prolific author and editor with a significant scholarly output, including four books, numerous book chapters, articles, and op-eds. His research interests are centered around Representation Learning, Generative AI, Veracity of Big Data, and Data Engineering. Pendyala is also an active speaker and has received numerous grants and held editorial roles, demonstrating a deep engagement with both academia and industry.