Vishnu S. Pendyala, PhD is a faculty member in Applied Data Science and an Academic Senator with San Jose State University,  IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor (One of the 22 in the Class of 2022), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2019 - 2022), ACM Senior Member, IEEE Computer Society Election Committee Member (2024), Chair of IEEE Computer Society SCV Chapter, Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter, Board of Silicon Valley Engineering Council, and Executive Council Member of SIGBDA-Computer Society of India. During his recent 3-year term as an ACM Distinguished speaker and before that as a researcher and industry expert, he gave numerous (50+) invited talks in conferences, faculty development programs, and other forums some of which are available on YouTube and IEEE.tv. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has over two decades of experience in the software industry in the Silicon Valley, USA. His book, "Veracity of Big Data," is available in several libraries, including those of MIT, Stanford, CMU, the US Congress and internationally. Two other books on machine learning and software development that he edited are also well-received and found place in the US Library of Congress and other reputed libraries. Dr. Pendyala recently served on a US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal review panel. He also played an active role in Computer Society of India and was the Program Secretary for its annual national convention. He served as an Area Governor with Toastmasters International and received the Distinguished Toastmaster, Area Governor of the Year, and Silver Scribe awards.