Chief Scientist & Sr. Director -- Product Analytics at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Chief Scientist & Sr. Director -- Product Analytics at LinkedIn
- Member, Provost’s Council at University of California, Santa Cruz
- Advisory Board Member at Affinity Circles
- Past
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- Director - Strategy, Analytics, and Product / Distinguished Research Scientist at eBay Inc. (eBay, PayPal, Skype, ...)
- Advisor at U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
- Assistant Research Scientist (Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor) at University of Maryland, Institute for Physical Science and Technology
- Consultant at Department of Energy - Argonne National Labs
- AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Education
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- University of Maryland College Park
- University of California, San Diego
- De Anza College
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DJ Patil’s Summary
Diverse experiences in a wide range of domains. Strong experience in working in ambiguity to solve complex problems. Focus on strategy, development , operations, and defining unique solutions. Experience in developing unique solutions via broad partnerships. Always looking to innovate by bringing smart people together.
Excellent track record of innovating using data & machine learning to develop revenue generating products.
DJ Patil’s Specialties:
Product Management, Strategy, Systems Architecture, Social network analysis, Social networking, Negotiations, Conflict resolution, General Management, Emergence Theory, Chaos & Nonlinear Dynamics, International Policy, High Performance Computing, Advanced Statistical Techniques, Risk Management, Marketing, Visualization of Complex Data, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Mining.
DJ Patil’s Experience
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Chief Scientist & Sr. Director -- Product Analytics
LinkedIn
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
We build products & find insights from data and report on all aspects of the business.
Some of our products include "People You May Know", "Who Viewed My Profile" & "Groups You Might Like"
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Member, Provost’s Council
University of California, Santa Cruz
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years)
Advisory board to the Provost of College Eight. College Eight is a residential educational college part of UCSC. The focus is environmental citizenship, ranging from topics of environmental civics and justice to environmental entrepreneurship. The new educational goal is to achieve academic excellence through current research and teaching, and also through connections with business, government, and philanthropy.
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Advisory Board Member
Affinity Circles
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years)
Technical Advisor to Affinity Circles
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Director - Strategy, Analytics, and Product / Distinguished Research Scientist
eBay Inc. (eBay, PayPal, Skype, ...)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)
July 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 11 months)
- Principal Architect July 2006 – Sept. 2007
• Led strategy, product, and analytics for a technology platform that enabled integration for all for eBay Inc. companies (eBay.com, PayPal.com, Skype, StubHub, Shopping.com, etc).
• Founding team member and lead architect for core technologies. Responsible for products (federated services, identity management, payment gateways, cross–platform messaging, and API gateways) with 99.99% availability and a global operational presence in 7 locations.
• Established a program to provide Skype headsets to NGOs working in the developing world.
• Founded and led the Advanced Concepts Team at PayPal. Responsible for development of four major products, which resulted in $20M in savings in 2008. One of which was selected as the 2007 People’s choice Award.
• 8 patents filed in the areas of social network analysis, visualization, customer service support, human computer interaction, machine learning, risk assessment, and behavior insights. -
Advisor
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Advisor to the Iraqi Virtual Science Library (https://ivsl.org). Building digital libraries in the developing world to connect scientists with relevant backgrounds and interests.
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Assistant Research Scientist (Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor)
University of Maryland, Institute for Physical Science and Technology
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
September 1996 — July 2006 (9 years 11 months)
Research areas include applications of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics to predictability of physical events and other interdisciplinary problems.
•Jointly developed a world-class interdisciplinary research program combining physics, mathematics, computer science, and meteorology to improve weather forecasts (data assimilation). The National Weather Service and the European Centre Medium Range Weather Forecasting now actively utilize this research.
•Research highlighted in national news segments, a CNN documentary, newspapers, and magazines.
•Established a partnership with IBM Watson Research Labs to apply research techniques to IBM’s supercomputer, Blue Gene.
•Obtained more than $3.0 million in research funding.
•Authored 20 papers and presented 13 invited and plenary lectures.
•Member of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, whose members include a Noble Laureate, Fields Medalist, Japan Prize recipient, and two Wolf Prize recipients. -
Consultant
Department of Energy - Argonne National Labs
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Public Policy industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Advisor to the Joint Threat Anticipation Center which seeks to make advances in the field of computaitonal social science and applications to national security.
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AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Executive Office industry)
September 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Advanced Systems and Concepts Office:
•Project Leader – Threat Anticipation Project (to anticipate emerging threats using computational social science and social networks analysis)
•Co-Chair – Independent Scientific Review of the Biological Weapons Proliferation Prevention Program – Cooperative Biological Research Program in the Former Soviet Union, Non-Russia
•Co-Director – Iraqi Virtual Science Library
•Advisor for Indian Subcontinent Policy
DJ Patil’s Education
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University of Maryland College Park
Ph.D. , Appiled Mathematics , 1996 — 2001
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- Area of researchs: Applied nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, and complexity
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University of California, San Diego
B.A. , Mathematics , 1993 — 1996
Programs of concentration: psychology, theater
Research activities: ecology of sardine populations, geomorphology sand dunes- Activities and Societies:
- President of Sangam 1995-1996
Volleyball Team 1993-1994
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De Anza College
1992 — 1992
Started out in Jr College and realized I was pretty good at math.
Additional Information
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DJ Patil’s Interests:
Technology in the developing world, technologies to aid underserved communities, natonal secuirty, diplomacy, mathematics, physics, ecology, geomorphology, nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, social network analysis, water sustainability efforts and technology, VOIP, venture funding, new technology, ultimate disc, weight training, running, soccer
DJ Patil’s Groups:
AAAS, Team in Training, The Weekend To Be Named Later
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The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI™) 2.0 -
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eBay Employees and Alumni Group -
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AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows, Past and Present -
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University of Maryland, College Park Alumni Association -
Networked Video Surveillance systems (NVSS)- CCTV, NVR- Video Analytics -
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'09 Grads
DJ Patil’s Honors:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science and Technology Policy Fellowship 2004 Science and Technology Policy Fellows are a prestigious group of scientists selected by AAAS (publishers of the journal Science) to assist the U.S. Government on major policy issues for up to two years.
21st Century Award, James S. McDonnell Foundation (joint with Drs. Istvan Szunyogh and Brian Hunt) 2001 Award for innovative and groundbreaking research.
Golden Goose Award, Graduate School University of Maryland 2001 Awarded as leader of the graduate group for top research team and ability to promote leadership.
1st Place Oral Presentation, Graduate Research Interaction Day, University of Maryland 2001 Award for the best graduate research presentation.
Monroe Martin Research Prize, University of Maryland 2000 Best research presentation in the Department of Mathematics.
Cosmos Club Foundation’s Grants in Aid to Junior Scholars 2000 Award for innovative research.
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