DJ Patil

DJ Patil
DJ Patil
Former Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dhanurjay "DJ" Patil (born August 3, 1974) Indian origin and the former 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, as Chief Product Officer of Color Labs, 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.

Early life and education

Patil attended Kennedy Middle School, Monta Vista High School and De Anza College, all in Cupertino, California.[5][6] While at Kennedy, he participated in a student exchange program, visiting Toyokawa, Cupertino's sister city in Japan along with nine other students in 1988. In high school, he led a tumultuous life, often getting into trouble and graduating in 1992 near the bottom of his class due to "his high jinks and poor SAT scores." He followed his girlfriend to De Anza Community College, where he had a life-changing moment on the first day of calculus class when he realized he understood nothing of the professor's lecture.[7] He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. He received a PhD from the University of Maryland College Park, in applied mathematics, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He also served as a faculty member at the University of Maryland, and used open datasets published by NOAA to improve numerical weather forecasting.

Career

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.[8][9]

Along with Jeff Hammerbacher, Patil is credited with coining the term "data science".[10]

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. External link in |website= (help);
  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. External link in |website= (help);
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Robert Safian (January 9, 2012). "GENERATION FLUX: DJ PATIL". Fast Company. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ Bereznak, Alyssa (April 9, 2015). "Meet DJ Patil: Obama’s Big Data dude".
  8. ↑ Jessi Hempel (February 18, 2015). "White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist". Wired. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ Robert Safian (January 9, 2012). "GENERATION FLUX: DJ PATIL". Fast Company. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Tim O’Reilly: The World’s 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists".
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