Hesham Eraqi is a Senior Expert/Director of AI and Chief AI Scientist at Valeo, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department at the American University in Cairo. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Cairo University and his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the American University in Cairo, with Highest Honors and the highest GPA in class with an award-winning PhD thesis. With 10+ years of experience working in the AI Software industry in addition to Academia, his experience mixes the development of high tech awards-winning commercial products and conducting pure academic research. His projects list, filed patents, papers, and book chapters are mainly in the field of AI and his applied research team at Valeo aims to enable new products in these areas.