Anoop Sarkar, PhD, is the Chief Technology Officer for emtelligent, a leader in the development of clinical-grade natural language processing (NLP) software for healthcare organizations. Dr. Sarkar is a renowned expert in machine learning for NLP, and also serves as Professor of Computer Science at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Dr. Sarkar has published more than 90 research articles with more than 4300 citations. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He published his first NLP paper in the 1993 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).