While Data Science is still a complex and broad field, it has reach a greater part of the society thanks to its popularization by its experts (researchers, scientists, developers) but also thanks to its democratization over the last years:
Data Science is not a nebulous concept anymore, but it’s currently deployed and used by businesses and everyday people.
Here are some of the most important influencers of the Data Science field that are making their field more appealable to everybody, evangelizing the decision makers and more broadly, preaching the good words of AI for organizations, communities, and the general public.
Ian Goodfellow has been a deep learning researcher since circa 2008. He developed the first defenses against adversarial examples, was among the first to study the security and privacy of neural networks, and helped to popularize the field of machine learning security and privacy.
As Chief Decision Scientist at Google Cloud, Cassie Kozyrkov advises leadership teams on decision process, AI strategy, and building data-driven organizations. She is the innovator behind bringing the practice of Decision Intelligence to Google, personally training over 15,000 Googlers. Previously, Cassie spent a decade working as a data scientist and consultant.
Jürgen Schmidhuber is s a computer scientist renowned for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, deep learning and artificial neural networks. He is recipient of numerous awards, author of over 350 peer-reviewed papers, and Chief Scientist of the company NNAISENSE, which aims at building the first practical general purpose AI. He is also advising various governments on AI strategies.
As Chief Decision Scientist at Google Cloud, Cassie Kozyrkov advises leadership teams on decision process, AI strategy, and building data-driven organizations. She is the innovator behind bringing the practice of Decision Intelligence to Google, personally training over 15,000 Googlers. Previously, Cassie spent a decade working as a data scientist and consultant.