Karishma Sekhon Edgar earned her Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.A. in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Boston University. She is co-founder, lead scientist, and software developer at ExitPi LLC, where she leads the development of new and efficient software technologies related to the fields of AI, data science and data engineering. Previously, she held various senior data science roles, where she designed and developed new tools and served as a technical data science lead. At the University of Michigan, she searched for signs of new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, developing a new statistical technique for doing so along the way. She is pentalingual and enjoys hobbies such as kendo, nature conservation, construction, and music.