Dr. Achin Bhowmik is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering at Starkey, a privately-held medical devices company with over 5,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s research and development, engineering, and program management organizations, and is leading the drive to transform hearing aids into multifunctional communication and health devices.Previously, Dr. Bhowmik was vice president and general manager of Perceptual Computing at Intel, where he was responsible for R&D, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and mixed reality devices.Dr. Bhowmik is an adjunct professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and an affiliate faculty member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. He has also held adjunct and guest professor positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Liquid Crystal Institute of the Kent State University, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He has authored over 200 publications, including two books and over 80 granted patents.Dr. Bhowmik serves as an industry representative for the US FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, board of trustees for the National Captioning Institute, board of directors for Mojo Vision and OpenCV, board of advisors for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is also on the advisory boards of several technology companies.His awards and honors include Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), President and Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Artificial Intelligence Excellence award by the Business Intelligence Group, Gold Globee award for “Most Innovative Person of the Year in Healthcare”, Top 25 Healthcare Technology CTOs by the Healthcare Technology Report, Notable Leaders in Healthcare by Twin Cities Business, Healthcare Heroes award by the Business Journals, Industrial Distinguished Leader award from the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, TIME’s Best Inventions, and the Red Dot Design award.