Jeff Hammerbacher

Jeff Hammerbacher is a prominent data scientist as well as chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera. In addition he is on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Jeff led the data team at Facebook. Jeff Hammerbacher was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera. Jeff worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. He earned his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University.

Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes,Fast Company , MIT Technology Review,Harvard Business Review,NY Times,Bloomberg BusinessWeek and others.

He has been quoted saying, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” about product and engineering talents being employed in masses by companies such as Google and Facebook to work on advertising-related algorithms.

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