Alan Patterson is an Electrical & Electronic Engineer with 30 years of machine learning experience. Ex-Googler, Senior Director at eBay, VP at HomeX and several successful startup. Head of Applied Science at HomeX where he built a team of around 20 AI/ML experts working on a diagnostics engine. A Senior Director at eBay building their product knowledge graph. He spent 4 years at Google where he built their ML-driven advertising fraud detection system. He led the team at TrueKnowledge (Evi) that built a Q&A platform that was acquired by Amazon and turned into Alexa.