20 MOST POPULAR DATA SCIENTISTS

A compilation by PromptCloud

A Data scientist is “someone who can bridge the raw data and the analysis – and make it accessible. It’s a democratising role; by bringing the data to the people, you make the world just a little bit better,” — Simon Rogers

Geoffrey Hinton

Heard the terms “Back Propagation” or “Dark Knowledge”? Meet Geoffrey Hinton, the brain behind these terms. He is a renowned data scientist in the field of Artificial Neural Intelligence and has been the driving force behind the resurgence of neural networks and deep learning.

Yann Lecun

Director of AI Research at Facebook, Yann Lecun is passionate about machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and computer neuroscience. He is not only the founding director of NYU data science center but has been inculcating more fresh minds as a teacher in New York University too.

Yoshua Bengio

A French born Canadian computer scientist, Yoshua is the founder and R&D guru of ApStat Technologies. He is most noted for his works on artificial neural networks and deep learning.

Juergen SchmidhuberA German computer scientist and artist known for his work on machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, artificial neural networks, digital physics, and low-complexity art. He is driven by his ultimate goal of building an AI smarter than himself and then retire.

Alex “Sandy” PentlandA computer scientist, a Toshiba professor at MIT, a serial entrepreneur, Alex Paul Pentland, donnes many hats. He was also recently named as world’s most powerful data scientist by Forbes. His interest mainly lies in machine learning, artificial intelligence and human computing.

Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig started his career as a research scientist, worked as Head of computational Science division at NASA for 6 years and is currently the Research director at Google. He has been awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award, ACM Fellow and AAAI Fellow to name a few.

Corinna Cortes

The Head of Research at Google, Corinna is also a competitive runner and a mother of 2 beautiful children. She worked as a researcher at AT&T Bell labs for over 10 years. She is most known for her research work in artificial intelligence, machine learning, general science and algorithms & theory.

Micheal I JordanA Professor at the University of California Berkeley and a leading researcher in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Micheal’s research in recent years has been more focused on Bayesian non parametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, kernel machines and applications to problems in signal processing.

DJ Patil

This popular co-author of the famous HBR article “Data Scientist – the sexiest job of21st century” is currently employed as the Chief Data Scientist at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, US. He previously worked as VP of RelateIQ and Head of Data Products and Chief Scientist at Linkedin and was elected as 2014 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Adam Coates

With a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, Adam works as the Senior Director at Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab. His interest areas mainly include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Control & Robotics.

Monica Rogati

Monica has been changing the data science landscape in her career journey as VP of Jawbone, senior data scientist at Linkedin to Data Science Advisor at Insight Data Science. Her passion lies in turning data into products, actionable insights and meaningful stories.

Olivier Grisel

Meet Olivier Grisel, the brains behind Scikit-Learn. He has a specialization in machine learning with applications to natural language processing and knowledge extraction. We also heard that he is involved in delivering talks and tutorial sessions on scikit-learn and predictive modelling.

Owen Zhang

Owen Zhang was recently anointed as the Superman of Data scientists by Intel as he ranked #1 at Kaggle, a clearing house for data science problems. Currently working as Chief Product Officer at Data Robot, his key interest area lies in Predictive Modeling and Data Mining.

Kirk Borne

A data scientist, an astrophysicist and the Principal Data Scientist in the Strategic Innovation Group at Booz-Allen Hamilton since 2015, Kirk Borne is one of the leading data science influencers on Twitter and has gathered a large fan following. He was named as 2014 IBM Big Data and Analytics hero and was also featured in a Ted Talk named “Big Data, Small World”.

Stanislav Semenov

Stanislav holds the 3rd rank worldwide in Kaggle and has won a multitude of data science competitions such as Otto Group Product Classification Challenge. He teaches at Yandex School of Data Analysis and also acts as a data science consultant for a lot of companies.

Doug Cutting

Doug Cutting is an advocate and creator of open source search technology Hadoop. Currently, he works as the Chief Architect at Cloudera. In 2015, O’Reilly awarded an Open Source award to Doug Cutting for his notable achievents.

Andrew Ng

The Co-Founder of Coursera, Andrew currently works as the Chief Data Scientist at Baidu, where he’s involved in carrying out researches in Deep Learning and in scalable approaches to Big Data and AI. He is widely known for his Machine Learning course which he made available through Coursera to all!

Daphne KollerAn Israeli-American Professor at Stanford University, she is the President and Co-founders of Coursera. Her general research area lies in artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Daphne was also featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World“ concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.

Hilary MasonHilary has founded many organizations such as Fast Forward Labs, hackNY.org and DataGotham. She got featured in the list of Fortune 40 under 40 ones to watch 2011, Craig’s 40 under Forty 2012. Her key interest areas lie in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Python and she has been making leaps of advancement in each field with her work.

Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian is the Founder and CEO of Udacity. Previously, he also founded Google[x] and worked as VP, Fellow at Google for 7 years. At Udacity, he aims to democratize education so that everyone in this world can receive world class education. He dreams of making this world a better place by empowering all people in the world through knowledge.

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