NEW YORK, March 21: Dr. D.J. Patil, the U.S. Chief Data
Scientist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from
February 2015 to January 2017, was acknowledged for the first time ever as U.S.
Chief Data Officer of the Year 2016 by the CDO Club, the world's chief group of
C-suite digital as well as data frontrunners.
In 2015, Dr. Patil was chosen by President Barack Obama to
be the first-ever U.S. Chief Data Scientist. In running the nation's countrywide
data endeavors, he assisted in creating approximately 40 Chief Data Officer responsibilities
throughout the Federal government.
Dr. Patil also launched new health care programs comprising
the Precision Medicine Initiative, the Cancer Moonshot, and new criminal
justice transformations comprising the Data-Driven Justice and Police Data
Initiatives that encompass over 94 million Americans.
"There were many deserving nominees for the first-ever
U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year award, but none more accomplished than Dr.
D.J. Patil," commented David Mathison, CEO of the CDO Club and CDO
Summit.
"D.J. has consistently proven himself to be a reliable,
loyal, and dedicated public servant, selflessly applying his many talents for
the public good. In government, academia, and the private sector, his
intelligence, enthusiasm, optimism, innovative ideas, business savvy, effective
communication skills, and solution-oriented approaches have delivered
tremendous value to his colleagues, shareholders and investors. For all these
reasons and more, I am delighted to name D.J. as the world's first-ever Chief
Data Officer of the Year," revealed Mathison.
Dr. Patil has been awarded several patents and achieved worldwide
appreciation for his endeavors, comprising "The World's 7 Most Powerful
Data Scientists" by Forbes, "36 of Tech's Most Powerful Disruptors"
by CNN, and a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum, to
name a few.
In 2016, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter presented Dr. Patil
with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the utmost
dignity the department confers on a private national.
In the private segment, D.J. steered the product groups at
RelateIQ (procured by Salesforce); was starting board member for Crisis Text
Line which functions to utilize novel expertise to deliver on demand mental and
crisis backing; and was a member of the venture firm Greylock Partners.
He formerly functioned as Chief Scientist, Chief Security
Officer and Head of Analytics and Data Product Teams at the LinkedIn
Corporation where he co-coined the word Data Scientist, and enjoyed several responsibilities
at Skype, PayPal, and eBay.
As a member of the teaching staff at the University of
Maryland, his study concentrated on nonlinear dynamics and chaos notion. He assisted
in launching a key study scheme on numerical weather forecast.
As an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow for the
Department of Defense, Dr. Patil guided fresh attempts to leverage social
network study and the merging of computational and social sciences to predict evolving
dangers to the US.
Dr. Patil gained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the
University of Maryland College Park in 2001. He got a B.A. in Mathematics from
the University of California San Diego in 1996.
While this is for the first time ever U.S. Chief Data
Officer of the Year award, the CDO Club in recent times presented the first-ever
Australian Chief Data Officer of the Year award to Simon Bligh, CEO of Dun
& Bradstreet ANZ.
Ever since 2013, the CDO Club has furthermore presented Chief
Digital Officer of the Year prizes to top executives in the U.S., U.K., the
European Union, as well as Australia. The first-ever Chief Digital Officer of
the Year prize was presented in February 2013 to Teddy Goff, who functioned as
Digital Director at Obama for America in 2008 and 2012.
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