Prof. Amit Sheth is an Educator, Researcher & Entrepreneur. He is the NCR Chair & Prof of Comp Sc & Engg at the Uni of South Carolina. As the founding director of the university-wide AI Institute of South Carolina (#AIISC), he grew it to nearly 50 researchers in its first four years starting in 2019. His foundational AI research includes neuro-symbolic AI, emphasizing intelligent, robust and trustworthy AI with applications to many domains/industry sectors. He is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and AAIA for his contributions to knowledge-enhanced computing, knowledge-based techniques to transform diver data into insights and actions, distributed workflows and data semantics/integration, etc. His major awards include the IEEE CS Wallace McDowell award, IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award, Trustee Award, 10-year award (ISWC), OSU Franklin College Alumni award, and Ohio Faculty Commercialization Award (runner up). In 2022, he was listed among the top 50/80 Computer Scientists in the USA/world (Dec 2024 h-index =120, i100 > 144, citations >>61K). Three of the four companies he founded involved licensing his university research outcomes. These include three AI companies: the first Semantic Web company in 1999 that pioneered technology similar to what is found today in Google Semantic Search and Knowledge Graph, a clinical NLP company, and Cognovi Labs at the intersection of emotion and AI. He is particularly proud of exceptional careers of his >>45 PhDs & postdocs.