Mahesh Chowdhary, PhD, is a Fellow and the Director of Strategic Platforms and the IoT Excellence Center at STMicroelectronics, based in Santa Clara, CA. He leads the effort on the development of solutions and reference designs for mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, automotive and industrial applications that utilize MEMS sensors, and computing and connectivity products. His areas of expertise include AI/ML, MEMS sensors, IoT, digital transformation, and location technologies. He has been awarded 29 patents. He has spoken extensively internationally about ML, smart sensors, and IoT. Prior to ST, he was a Senior Director of MEMS technology at CSR, where he worked on the integration of MEMS sensors, GPS, and wireless technologies. As Founder and CTO of Acculeon, he pioneered the use of GPS and MEMS sensors in vehicle safety applications. He has also worked on a variety of advanced navigation technologies at Visteon and on autonomous vehicles at the Corporate R&D Center at Caterpillar. As a Control Systems Scientist at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, worked on signal processing applications relating to position and energy feedback loops in the particle accelerator. Mahesh received his Ph.D. in applied science (particle accelerators) from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT, Delhi.