Vishnu Pendyala is a Senior Member of
IEEE and of the Computer Society of India (CSI), with over two decades of software experience with industry leaders such as Cisco, Synopsys, Informix (now IBM), and Electronics Corporation of India Limited. He is on the executive council of CSI, Special Interest Group on Big Data Analytics, and is the founding editor of its flagship publication, Visleshana. He recently taught a short-term course on
“Big Data Analytics for Humanitarian Causes,” which was sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government
of India under the GIAN scheme; and delivered multiple keynotes in IEEE-sponsored international conferences. Vishnu has been living and working in the Silicon Valley for over two decades