Mattmann Biography

Chris Mattmann is the Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAIO) at UCLA, the first such position in the UC system. He collaborates with key stakeholders to develop the strategy and roadmap for data and artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. Before UCLA, Mattmann was the Division Manager of the Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Innovative Development Organization at NASA JPL and was the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer. He has a proven track record of delivering large enterprise implementations that fundamentally changed the way the world searches, clicks on, organizes, and transacts with data. He is experienced leading executive committees, advising the C-Suite, chairing governance boards and in making organization’s data more valuable. .

He contributes to open source and was a member of the Board of Directors at the Apache Software Foundation (2013-18) and was one of the initial contributors to Apache Nutch as a member of its project management committee, the predecessor to Apache Hadoop. Mattmann is the progenitor of the Apache Tika framework, the digital "babel fish" and widely used content analysis and data analytics framework. Mattmann contributes to TensorFlow, Google’s machine learning platform and has recently finished a book on Machine Learning for TensorFlow, 2nd edition published by Manning Publications. Mattmann is an expert in Artificial Intelligence.

Mattmann is the Director of the Information Retrieval & Data Science (IRDS) group at USC and Adjunct Research Professor ("Full Professor"). He teaches and has incepted graduate courses in Data Science, Web Search Engines & Information Retrieval. Mattmann has materially contributed to understanding of the Deep Web and Dark Web through the DARPA MEMEX project. Mattmann's work helped uncover the Panama Papers scandal which won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 2017.

Contact: http://mattmann.ai
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