DJ Patil

DJ Patil
DJ Patil
Former Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dhanurjay "DJ" Patil (born August 3, 1974) is the former Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy. He previously served as the Vice President of Product at RelateIQ, which was acquired by Salesforce.com, as Chief Product Officer of Color Labs, and as Head of Data Products and Chief Scientist of LinkedIn. His father, Suhas Patil, is a venture capitalist and the founder of Cirrus Logic.

Patil attended Kennedy Middle School, Monta Vista High School and De Anza College, all in Cupertino, California. While at Kennedy, he participated in a student exchange program, visiting Toyokawa, Cupertino's sister city in Japan along with nine other students in 1988. In high school, he led a tumultuous life, often getting into trouble and graduating in 1992 near the bottom of his class due to "his high jinks and poor SAT scores." He followed his girlfriend to De Anza Community College, where he had a life-changing moment on the first day of calculus class when he realized he understood nothing of the professor's lecture. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. He received a PhD from the University of Maryland College Park, in applied mathematics, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He also served as a faculty member at the University of Maryland, and used open datasets published by NOAA to improve numerical weather forecasting.

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