Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product

Appendix A. About the Author

Dr. DJ Patil is a Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners. He has held a variety of roles in academia, industry, and government. These include the Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer and Head of Analytics and Data Teams at the LinkedIn Corporation. Additionally he has 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 applied to 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. He has also co-chaired a major review of US efforts to prevent bioweapons proliferation in Central Asia and co-founded the Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL). More details can be found on his LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/dpatil) and he can be followed on Twitter (http://twitter.com/dpatil).