CDO Magazine Announces Its Leading Academic Data Leaders List 2022

Aditya Parameswaran, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif., USA)

Alex Pentland, Professor at MIT, Media Lab, Sloan Business School, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Alexandre Jacquillat, Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management (Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Andrew Ng, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif., USA)

Babak Abasi, Head of Department and Professor of Business Optimisation at RMIT University (Australia)

Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Economics and Finance,  Great Lakes Institute of Management (Gurgaon, India)

Bhekisipho Twala, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Digital Transformation at Tshwane University of Technology (Pretoria, South Africa)

Bill Howe, Associate Professor, Information School and Founding Program Director and Faculty Chair, UW Data Science Masters Degree, University of Washington (Seattle, Wash., USA)

Bin Yu, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Statistics and EECSM at University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif., USA)

Carlos Guestrin, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif., USA)

Cecilia Aragon, Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at University of Washington (Seattle, Wash., USA)

Chris Bradley, Information Management Strategist, Vice President of Professional Development at DAMA International (Bath, United Kingdom)

Chris Mentzel, Executive Director at Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif., USA)

David Bamman, Associate Professor, School of Information at University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif., USA)

David Steier, Professor and Lead Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s new Chief Data Office Certificate Program (Pittsburgh, Pa., USA)

Denise White, Assistant Professor - Educator / Academic Director Master of Science in Business Analytics at University of Cincinnati

Devshree Golecha, VP of Data, Analytics, and Data Governance, Texas Dow Employees Credit Union (TDECU); Adjunct Professor of Quality Improvement and Statistics at the University of Houston; CDO Ambassador to MIT CDOIQ for the State of Texas (Texas, USA)

Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute (Stanford, Calif., USA)

Francisco A. Rodrigues, Associate Professor of Complex Systems and Data Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC), University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Grant Scott, Director, Data Science and Analytics Masters Program; University of Missouri

Hod Lipson, Professor at Columbia University (New York, N.Y., USA)

Ion Stoica, Professor at UC Berkeley Computer Science Department (Berkeley, Calif., USA)

James Booth, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y., USA)

Jeffrey Heer, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington (Seattle, Wash., USA)

Jeffrey Keisler, Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at University of Massachusetts (Boston, Mass., USA)

Jiawei Han, Michael Aiken Chair Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill., USA)

Jim Short, Lead Scientist at San Diego Supercomputer Center at University of California, San Diego (San Diego, Calif., USA)

John R. Talburt, Acxiom Chair of Information Quality, Coordinator of the Computer and Information Sciences PhD Program, and Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Little Rock, Ark., USA)

Joo-Ho Lee, Professor of Information Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University (Shiga, Japan)

Joseph Hellerstein, Senior Data Science Fellow & Affiliate Professor at University of Washington (Seattle, Wash., USA)

Judea Pearl, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA (Los Angeles, Calif., USA)

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director and Professor at USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)

Jussi Keppo, Professor at NUS Business School, Research Director at Institute of Operations Research and Analytics; National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Kai Larsen, Associate Professor of Information Management, Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics at University of Colorado, Boulder – Leeds School of Business (Boulder, Colo., USA)

Kate Carruthers, Chief Data and Insights Officer, University of New South Wales (NSW, Australia)

Krishnadas Nanath, Associate Professor & Campus Program Coordinator: Data Science at Middlesex University Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

Kyu-Young Whang, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute  of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea)

Leman AkogluAssociate Professor at Carnegie Melon University's H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy (Pittsburg, Pa., USA)

Leslie Kaelbling, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT (Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Magdalena Balazinska, Director and Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle, Wash., USA)

Manish Gangwar, Associate Professor, Indian School of Business and Executive Director- ISB Institute of Data Science (Hyderabad, India)

Marc Torrens, Associate Professor, Academic Director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics at ESADE Business & Law School (Barcelona, Spain)

María José Espona, Professor and Director, Post-Graduate course on Strategic Intelligence at Catholic University of Argentina (Argentina)

Mark Kennedy, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organisation, and Co-Director, Data Science Institute, at Imperial College London (London, United Kingdom)

Masashi Sugiyama, Director, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project / Professor, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

Matei Zaharia, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif., USA)

Michael Franklin, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science & Sr. Advisor to the Provost for Computing and Data Science at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill., USA)

Michele Valentini, Head of Professional Education (COO), FIT Academy (Bologna, Italy)

Nando de Freitas, Professor of Computer Science at University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Patrick Glauner, Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Deggendorf Institute of Technology (Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany)

Patrick J. Wolfe, Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science and Miller Family Professor of Statistics at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind., USA)

Peter Aiken, Associate Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va., USA)

Prashanth H Southekal, Founder of DBP-Institute and Adjunct Professor of Data Analytics at IE Business School (Spain)

R.L. Shankar, Professor of Finance, Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning & Deep Learning), Cryptoassets and Blockchain Technology (India)

Radu-Emil Precup, Professor of Automation and Applied Informatics, Politehnica University of Timisoara (Romania)

Raymond Ng, Professor and Scientific Director of the Data Science Institute at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)

Richard Y. Wang, Founder & Executive Director, MIT CDOIQ Program (Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Roberta Siciliano, Professor of Data Mining, University of New South Wales (NSW, Australia)

Roger Chiang, Professor of Information Systems, Carl H. Lindner College of Business at University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)

Sebastian Thrun, Adjunct Professor, Stanford Computer Science and Engineering Departments, CEO Kittyhawk, co-founder Udacity and Cresta (Mountain View, Calif., USA)

Seethu Seetharaman, Director, MS in Customer Analytics; Director, Center for Analytics and Business Insights (CABI), Washington University in St. Louis

Shahriar Akter, Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia)

Sofia Olhede, Chair of Statistical Data Science, Institute of Mathematics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Sriparna Saha, Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna (India)

Stephan Günnemann, Professor for Data Analytics and Machine Learning at Technische Universität München (TUM; Munich, Germany)

Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India)

Susan Davidson, Weiss Professor, Computer and Information Science, Co-Director, Data Science Program at University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa., USA)

Stuart Madnick, Professor, Information Technology and Engineering Systems, Co-Director, PROFIT Program at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Thomas Neumann, Professor of Data Science and Engineering at Technical University of Munich (Munich, Germany)

Tom Davenport, Visiting Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Distinguished Professor at Babson College (Wellesley, Mass., USA)

Tung-Kuan Liu, Professor of Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and Graduate Institute of Industrial Design, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology (Taiwan)

Usama Fayyad, Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University (Boston, Mass., USA)

Vasant Dhar, Professor NYU Stern and Center for Data Science, Director PhD program in Data Science at New York University (New York, N.Y., USA)

Wooyoung Chung, Co-Director For Research & Training, MIT CDOIQ Program (based in Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Yike Guo, Co-Director at Data Science Institute at Imperial College London (London, United Kingdom)

Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor & Head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms at Université de Montréal (Montréal, Canada)