Stephan Jou is a Technical Architect, Research Staff Member, and Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Business Analytics division in the Technology and Innovation group at the Office of the CTO. In his career at Cognos Software, he architected and led the development and commercialization of several initial release products in the areas of data mining, neural networks, visualization, mobile, dashboarding, and semantic search. His current role at IBM focuses on translating academic and IBM research into product strategy for Cognos and SPSS Software. Stephan holds a Master of Science in Computational Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering as well as dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Human Physiology, all from the University of Toronto.