Dr. D.J. Patil Biography

Most recently DJ was appointed by President Obama to be the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist where his efforts led to the establishment of nearly 40 Chief Data Officer roles across the Federal government. He also established new health care programs including the Precision Medicine Initiative and the Cancer Moonshot new criminal justice reforms including the Data-Driven Justice and Police Data Initiatives that cover more than 94 million Americans as well as leading the national data efforts. He also has been active in national security and for his efforts was awarded by Secretary Carter the Dept. of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service which the highest honor the department bestows on a civilian.
In industry he led the product teams at RelateIQ which was acquired by Salesforce was founding board member for Crisis Text Line which works to use new technologies to provide on demand mental and crisis support and was a member of the venture firm Greylock Partners. He has also was Chief Scientist Chief Security Officer and Head of Analytics and Data Product Teams at the LinkedIn Corporation where he co-coined the term Data Scientist. He has also held a number of roles at Skype PayPal and eBay.
As a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland his research focused on nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory and he helped start a major research initiative on numerical weather prediction. As an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow for the Department of Defense Dr. Patil directed new efforts to leverage social network analysis and the melding of computational and social sciences to anticipate emerging threats to the US.

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