D.J. Patil

Perhaps the most influential data scientist in the world. Having been appointed by President Obama

Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist

Jared Lander

Statistics Professor at Columbia University and Author of R for Everyone

Maya Gupta, PhD

Glassbox ML R&D Team Lead at Google

Wes McKinney

Main Author of Pandas, Software Architect and Vice President at Two Sigma

Andreas Mueller

Core Contributor of scikit learn. Author of Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

Michael Mahoney, PhD

Statistics Professor at UC Berkeley

Brian Granger

Co-founder of Jupyter Notebooks

Associate Professor of Physics at Cal Poly State University

Stéfan van der Walt, PhD

Founder scikit-image,contributor to numpy, scipy

Yoshua Bengio

Program co-director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains,

Professor at Université de Montréal

Kirk Borne

Herald as one of the top Data Science practitioners

Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton