I focus on building products and great teams. Diverse experiences in a wide range of domains. Strong experience in working in ambiguity to solve complex problems. Focus on strategy, development , operations, and defining unique solutions. Experience in developing unique solutions via broad partnerships. Always looking to innovate by bringing smart people together. - 2014 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum - Co-author of HBR article --Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century - Forbes -- The World's 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists (http://onforb.es/A50k9w) - Fortune -- The hot tech gig of 2022 (http://bit.ly/y5GRy6) - Fast Company cover story Jan 2012 (http://bit.ly/MQ0UvI) - CNN -- 36 of tech's most powerful disruptors (http://cnnmon.ie/ReeMyF) - Co-coined the term "Data Scientist" - Fortunate to have spoken at 3 commencements Specialties: Product Management, Strategy, Systems Architecture, Social network analysis, Social networking, Negotiations, Conflict resolution, General Management, Emergence Theory, Chaos & Nonlinear Dynamics, International Policy, High Performance Computing, Advanced Statistical Techniques, Risk Management, Marketing, Visualization of Complex Data, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Mining.

U.S. Chief Data Scientist @ Our mission: Responsibly unleash the power of data for the benefit of the American public and maximize the nation’s return on its investment in data. From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaBoard Member @ Helping save teens lives through technology. Couldn't ask to work with a more passionate and dedicated crew. It's an honor. From 2012 to February 2015 (3 years) Greater New York City AreaAdvisor @ Data Science for Search Marketing From March 2012 to January 2015 (2 years 11 months) VP of Product @ Applying data science to decision making. One of the original 3 Advisors with Bob Cohn and Bill Campbell from initial idea through launch VP of Product to accelerate the business & product development execution Acquired by Salesforce.com for ~$400M From July 2011 to January 2015 (3 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBoard Member @ From 2010 to January 2015 (5 years) Data Scientist in Residence @ A hybrid between Entrepreneur in Residence and Executive in Residence where I get to think about the next great challenge and help out companies in the process. Some of the content that I've created during this time: - University of Maryland Commencement Speech -- http://bit.ly/MMzW5r http://bit.ly/Qj7cQY - Building Data Science Teams -- http://amzn.to/pgmVPa - Data Jujitsu -- The art of turning data into product -- http://amzn.to/Si69zX From August 2011 to July 2013 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisor @ From March 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 5 months) Member, Provost’s Council @ Advisory board to the Provost of College Eight. College Eight is a residential educational college part of UCSC. The focus is environmental citizenship, ranging from topics of environmental civics and justice to environmental entrepreneurship. The new educational goal is to achieve academic excellence through current research and teaching, and also through connections with business, government, and philanthropy. From August 2006 to July 2012 (6 years) Head of Data Products, Chief Scientist, and Chief Security Officer @ Responsible for the following areas: - Product teams on Data products - Decision Sciences and Business Intelligence - Fraud, Abuse, Risk, and Security Led and executed strategy for LinkedIn to (a) become a data driven company and (b) have a product portfolio of data driven products. Of all of our accomplishments, I’ve most proud of the team we built and believe that, pound-for-pound, it is the best Data Science and Engineering Team assembled. I can’t emphasize enough how much this was a team effort. Some of our products include: - People You May Know (did you know this was invented by LinkedIn?) - Who’s Viewed My Profile, Profile Stats, Who’s Viewed My Job, etc - Talent Match (when you post a job it returns the best matched candidates) - Jobs You May Be Interested In - InMaps (real time interactive visualization of your LinkedIn network) - Analytically driven email campaigns (Fortune called this the best email you’ll receive this year) - Groups You Might Like - Skills - Many more… Some of the technologies that we had to invent to build these products: - Voldemort - Kafka - Azkaban Responsible for LinkedIn’s push to implement Hadoop and become a center of excellence in the space. During my tenure Fast Company ranked LinkedIn as the 24th most innovate company for its data products and 2nd most innovative company in education for Career Explorer. Our Decision Sciences team led the development of large-scale implementation of new data access methods, company wide dashboards, monitoring, etc. Our Fraud, Abuse, Risk, and Security team went from me to a fully 24x7 team and charted new territory by building a number of new technologies to identify abuse via social networks. The rest of this paragraph has been redacted. From May 2008 to March 2011 (2 years 11 months) Advisor @ What became part of the early Google Wallet team. The rest is From 2008 to 2010 (2 years) Director - Strategy, Analytics, and Product / Distinguished Research Scientist @ - Principal Architect July 2006 – Sept. 2007 • Led strategy, product, and analytics for a technology platform that enabled integration for all for eBay Inc. companies (eBay.com, PayPal.com, Skype, StubHub, Shopping.com, etc). • Founding team member and lead architect for core technologies. Responsible for products (federated services, identity management, payment gateways, cross–platform messaging, and API gateways) with 99.99% availability and a global operational presence in 7 locations. • Established a program to provide Skype headsets to NGOs working in the developing world. • Founded and led the Advanced Concepts Team at PayPal. Responsible for development of four major products, which resulted in $20M in savings in 2008. One of which was selected as the 2007 People’s choice Award. • 8 patents filed in the areas of social network analysis, visualization, customer service support, human computer interaction, machine learning, risk assessment, and behavior insights. From July 2006 to May 2008 (1 year 11 months) Assistant Research Scientist (Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor) @ Research areas include applications of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics to predictability of physical events and other interdisciplinary problems. •Jointly developed a world-class interdisciplinary research program combining physics, mathematics, computer science, and meteorology to improve weather forecasts (data assimilation). The National Weather Service and the European Centre Medium Range Weather Forecasting now actively utilize this research. •Research highlighted in national news segments, a CNN documentary, newspapers, and magazines. •Established a partnership with IBM Watson Research Labs to apply research techniques to IBM’s supercomputer, Blue Gene. •Obtained more than $3.0 million in research funding. •Authored 20 papers and presented 13 invited and plenary lectures. •Member of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, whose members include a Noble Laureate, Fields Medalist, Japan Prize recipient, and two Wolf Prize recipients. From September 1996 to July 2006 (9 years 11 months) AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow @ Advanced Systems and Concepts Office: •Project Leader – Threat Anticipation Project (to anticipate emerging threats using computational social science and social networks analysis) •Co-Chair – Independent Scientific Review of the Biological Weapons Proliferation Prevention Program – Cooperative Biological Research Program in the Former Soviet Union, Non-Russia •Co-Director – Iraqi Virtual Science Library •Advisor for Indian Subcontinent Policy From September 2004 to December 2005 (1 year 4 months)

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics @ University of Maryland College Park From 1996 to 2001 B.A., Mathematics @ University of California, San Diego From 1993 to 1996 De Anza College From 1992 to 1992 Monta Vista High School DJ Patil is skilled in: Data Analysis, Matlab, Mathematics, National Security, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Product Management, High Performance Computing, Risk Management, Human-computer Interaction, International Policy, Social Networking, Analytics, Data Science