Patrick Roos is Chief Data Scientist for Atos zData. Patrick brings nearly two decades of industry and research experience in Data Science and AI, with most of this time spent in the services industry synergizing AI/ML efforts with business needs. His educational background combined with his experience in delivering solutions for a diverse range of start-ups to Fortune 500 companies provide him with the technical, scientific, and business knowledge to successfully leverage analytics technologies to provide business value. As a proven team leader with a pragmatic but thoughtful approach to team management and problem solving, he has led the ideation, scoping, design, and execution of solutions spanning a vast great variety of application domains. Patrick received his PhD and MS in Computer Science in the Artificial Intelligence group at the University of Maryland, College Park, and his BS in Data Science from the College of Charleston.