Nicolas Chapados is Vice President of Research at ServiceNow Research. He holds an engineering degree from McGill University, a PhD in Computer Science from University of Montreal, Canada, earned under the supervision of Turing-award winner Prof. Yoshua Bengio. He was the co-founder of ApSTAT Technologies, Imagia, Chapados Couture Capital, and Element AI, with the latter acquired by ServiceNow in 2021. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.