Srini Janarthanam is a PhD in Artificial Intelligence & Natural Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh. He served as a Postdoctoral researcher at Heriot-Watt University, UK, working on several EU-funded projects that focus on Conversational AI research. He authored a book titled ‘Hands On Chatbots and Conversational UI development’ published in 2017 when chatbots and conversational assistants became a rage.