DJ Patil

DJ Patil

Dhanurjay "DJ" Patil (born August 3, 1969) is the Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy.[1][2][3] He previously served as the Vice President of Product at RelateIQ, which was acquired by Salesforce.com, and as Head of Data Products and Chief Scientist of LinkedIn.[4] His father, Suhas Patil, is a venture capitalist and the founder of Cirrus Logic.

Patil has held positions at LinkedIn, Greylock Partners, Skype, PayPal, and eBay. He also briefly worked at the U.S. Department of Defense employing social network analysis to help anticipate emerging threats.[5][6]

Patil attended Monta Vista High School and De Anza College, both in Cupertino, California.[7][8] He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland College Park. He also served as a faculty member at the University of Maryland, and used open datasets published by NOAA to improve numerical weather forecasting.

Along with Jeff Hammerbacher, Patil is credited with coining the term "data science".[9]

References

  1. ↑ "The White House Names Dr. DJ Patil as the First U.S. Chief Data Scientist". http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/02/18/white-house-names-dr-dj-patil-first-us-chief-data-scientist''.
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Dwoskin (February 19, 2015). "White House Names Nation’s First Chief Data Scientist". The Wall Street Journal blog. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ Arun Kumar (February 20, 2015). "Indian-American DJ Patil named as first US chief data scientist". The Economic Times. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ "LinkedIn Profile Page for DJ Patil". https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpatil''.
  5. ↑ Jessi Hempel (February 18, 2015). "White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist". Wired. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ Robert Safian (January 9, 2012). "GENERATION FLUX: DJ PATIL". Fast Company. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ Matt O'Brien (February 18, 2015). "White House taps Silicon Valley’s DJ Patil as data chief". Silicon Beat, the tech blog of The Mercury News. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ Robert Safian (January 9, 2012). "GENERATION FLUX: DJ PATIL". Fast Company. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Tim O’Reilly: The World’s 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists". http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmm45emkh/2-jeff-hammerbacher-chief-scientist-cloudera-and-dj-patil-entrepreneur-in-residence-greylock-ventures/''.

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