Harry Mendell is a computer scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and data architecture. He applies these techniques to innovative solutions for the Federal Reserve. He is also co-chairman of the AI Innovation Roundtable which helps to promote the use of AI and machine learning throughout the system. Early in his career he invented the first real time digital sampler music synthesizer and collaborated with Stevie Wonder. He was also part of the Bell Labs Unix team and designed the CPU of the first microprocessor-based Unix system.