Vinay Kulkarni is a Chief Scientist of Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He is a member of the TCS Corporate Technology Council that oversees all R&D and innovation activities at TCS. His research interests include model-driven software engineering, self-adaptive systems, and enterprise modeling. His work in model-driven software engineering has led to a toolset that has been used to deliver several large business-critical systems over the past 15 years. Much of this work has found way into OMG standards, three of which Vinay contributed to in a leadership role. Vinay has several patents to his credit, and has authored several papers in scholastic journals and conferences worldwide. He has served as the conference and program chairperson for the premier ACM and IEEE international conferences in the area of software engineering; and served as a technical program committee member for many international conferences. Vinay also serves as Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, London.