Dr. Achin Bhowmik is vice president and general manager of the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corporation. He leads the research, development and deployment of advanced computing solutions based on natural sensing and intelligence, branded as Intel® RealSense Technology. His responsibilities include creating and growing new businesses in the areas of computer vision and artificial intelligence, immersive virtual and merged reality devices, autonomous robots and unmanned aviation systems. Previously, he served as the chief of staff of the personal computing group, Intel’s largest business unit with over $30B in revenues. Prior to that, he led the development of advanced video and display processing technologies for Intel’s computing products. His prior work includes liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplay technology and integrated electro-optical devices. As an adjunct and guest professor, Dr. Bhowmik has advised graduate research and taught human-computer interactions, computer vision and display technologies at the Liquid Crystal Institute of the Kent State University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He has over 100 publications including two books, and over 100 granted and pending patents. Dr. Bhowmik was elected Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID) in 2016. He received the Industrial Distinguished Leader Award from the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association in 2016. He serves on the executive committee and board of directors for SID, and is an associate editor for the Journal of SID. He is on the board of directors for OpenCV, the organization behind the open source computer vision library