Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Data Science
Regions Bank
When Chun Schiros moved to the U.S. from China after graduating from college, it was in hopes of becoming a facial-recognition engineer and working under the Tennessee professor who had written the textbook she'd studied in Beijing. But that professor had retired from teaching, so she instead headed to Alabama, where she completed master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering and statistics at Auburn University. Then she began work as a medical researcher, a career step that made sense for someone interested in how to use data in new ways.