Tarek Hoteit is director of technology at Thomson Reuters. He currently leads the development of learning platforms for tax and accounting professionals and is actively engaged in research and development projects in AI, natural language processing, and machine learning. Tarek holds a Ph.D. in applied management and decision sciences from Walden University, an MBA from the University of Dallas, and BSc in computer science from the American University of Beirut. Tarek is also the co-founder of Dallas AI meetup group (http://www.dallas-ai.org) to help promote more machine learning and AI within the Dallas metroplex. He tweets on @hoteit and blogs when possible on https://tarek.computer