David "DSO"Suendermann-Oeft is Founder and CEO of Modality.AI, creators of the Digital Lab Test. A scientist, engineer, founder, and former tenured professor, he has 15 years of experience leading industrial and academic R&D departments in AI, machine learning, speech and signal processing, NLP, multimodal technologies, and dialog systems with a publication track record of over 200 books, patents, and articles. David has held C-level and senior management positions in industry and academia in the US and Europe, built enterprise-grade multi-modal, speech, and language technology systems (totaling over one billion interactions), and served as evaluator and innovation expert for the European Commission and the National Science Foundation.