Abhay Samant is Chief Software Engineer at NI and a professor of practice at the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has twenty-four years of research, development, product strategy, and business management experience, in RF/millimeter wave systems and measurements, wireless communications, machine learning, and data analysis techniques for mil/aero and communications applications. He is a proven leader of Global R&D teams and has demonstrated business management experience for units critical to core revenue growth. His research interests lie in the areas of machine learning, wireless communications, and cognitive cyberphysical systems.