Dr. Itamar Arel is an accomplished AI researcher and entrepreneur. Dr. Arel served as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee from 2003 through 2013, and a visiting professor at Stanford University’s AI lab from 2013 until 2015. In parallel to his academic career, he co-founded Binatix – one of the pioneering companies to employ deep learning technology to financial trading. He received the B.S., M.S., M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees, all from Ben-Gurion University in Israel.