Dr. Gautam Shroff has been with TCS Research since 1998 and headed the organization since 2017. Prior to joining TCS in 1998, Dr. Shroff had been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (1990 - 91) and thereafter of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (1991 - 1997). He is a TCS Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He completed his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1985, and Ph.D in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY in 1990. He has published over 140 research papers in the areas of computational mathematics, parallel computation, distributed systems, software architecture, software engineering, big data, information fusion, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. His current research interests are in analogical reasoning, machine-learning for finance, and tools for accelerating research.