Harjinder Sandhu is the Vice President of Research and Development at Nuance Communications. Harjinder is a serial entrepreneur in the healthcare technology space and has stood at the forefront of innovations in speech recognition and machine learning for more than 20 years. Earlier in his career, Harjinder co-founded MedRemote, a healthcare-focused speech recognition company acquired in 2007 by Nuance. He then served for five years as Vice President and Chief Technologist of Nuance’s Healthcare R&D division. He also co-founded the patient engagement company, Twistle, and remains on its Board of Directors. Harjinder holds a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) and master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and a bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Computer Science from The University of British Columbia. He is a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at York University and Visiting Scientist at IBM.