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An accomplished AI researcher and entrepreneur, Itamar served as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee from 2003 through 2013 and held a visiting professor position at Stanford University’s AI lab from 2013 until 2015. In parallel to his academic career, he co-founded both Binatix – one of the first companies to employ deep learning technology for financial algorithmic trading and Apprentice - that built AI, voice-based conversational agents, for the enterprise (acquired by McDonald's Corporation). Dr. Arel served as corporate VP and head of McD Tech Labs at McDonald's Corporation (following the acquisition of Apprentice) and as a strategic advisor at IBM. He is currently the CEO at Tenyx. Itamar received a B.S., M.S., M.B.A., and Ph.D. degrees, all from Ben-Gurion University in Israel.