Ronjon Nag, Ph.D. is currently a Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow at Stanford University. He is chairman and board member of multiple technology startups, and has founded several companies, which have been sold to Apple, BlackBerry and Motorola. He was awarded the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Mountbatten Medal in 2014 for services to smartphone componentry and ecosystems, and was a winner of the $1M Verizon Powerful Answers Award as board member of Bounce Imaging. He has been a pioneer of smartphones and the app stores they depend on based on his work on touch screens, mobile search, voice recognition, text prediction, handwriting recognition and app stores. Dr. Nag received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from UK's University of Birmingham, a master's degree from MIT Sloan School of Management and an engineering Ph.D. from University of Cambridge. He completed his education with post-doctoral research at Stanford University in the fields of neural networks and Artificial Intelligence.