Expert Series: Kirk Borne, Senior Lead Scientist of Booz Allen Hamilton

Intro for this event: Come see examples of how today's large data collections are being tackled by data science and machine learning methods, thereby empowering a data-driven transformation in organizations and industries that is bringing about greater competitive intelligence, insights, and innovation. Speaker Bio: Dr. Kirk Borne is the Principal Data Scientist for NextGen Analytics and Data Science in the Strategic Innovation Group at Booz Allen Hamilton. He previously spent 12 years as Professor at George Mason University in the Computational and Data Sciences program. Before that, he worked 18 years on various NASA contracts, as research scientist and as manager on large data systems. He has a PhD in Astrophysics from Caltech.