Vijay Dialani is a Software Engineer(TLM) at Google, working on natural language understanding and conversational AI. Prior to that he was at LinkedIn. At LinkedIn, he was the technical lead for development of a number of products such as Next Generation Recruiter and Intelligent Matches within the LinkedIn Talent Solutions. He currently leads efforts in online learning and preference elicitation. Previously, he was an academic and was director for the Infolab at Boise State University, with active collaborations with Micron and Simplot. He had also worked at eBay, GE Research, Microsoft Live Labs and IBM Research. He has been a regular reviewer for journals such as Concurrency and Computation. His research has been published at WWW, CIKM and ICDE. He has published 20+ papers, with 650+ citations and filed 15+ patents. While in academia he created graduate level courses in Data Science, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing. He has advised several graduate students, been on graduate committee of several masters and PhD students.