Rayid Ghani

Rayid Ghani is a Distinguished Career Professor in the [https://www.ml.cmu.edu/ Machine Learning Department] (in the School of Computer Science) and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he was the director of the [http://www.datasciencepublicpolicy.org Center for Data Science and Public Policy], research associate professor in the department of computer science, and a senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was also the co-founder of Edgeflip, an analytics startup that grew out of the Obama 2012 Campaign, focused on social media products for non-profits, advocacy groups, and charities. Recently, it was announced that he will be leaving the University of Chicago and joining Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.

Ghani started and runs the Eric & Wendy Schmidt [http://www.dssgfellowship.org Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship]. He's also the co-founder of Coleridge Initiative, a nonprofit organization working with governments to ensure that data and evidence is used more effectively for policymaking. Provided by Wikipedia