Data Science has taken the world with a storm due to the rising need of web crawling and data acquisition to help make unheard advancements in the field of business intelligence and various technologies. We have compiled a list of the top 20 renowned data scientists who have taken quantum leaps in their fields with the data science and are changing how we see data on a day to day basis.

1. 20 MOST POPULAR
DATA SCIENTISTS
A compilation by PromptCloud

2. A Data scientist is “someone who can bridge the
raw data and the analysis – and make it accessible.
It’s a democratising role; by bringing the data to the
people, you make the world just a little bit better,”
— Simon Rogers

3. Geoffrey
Hinton
Heard the terms “Back Propagation” or
“Dark Knowledge”? Meet Geoffrey Hinton,
the brain behind these terms. He is a
renowned data scientist in the field of
Artificial Neural Intelligence and has been
the driving force behind the resurgence of
neural networks and deep learning.

4. Yann Lecun
Director of AI Research at Facebook,Yann
Lecun is passionate about machine
learning, deep learning, computer vision
and computer neuroscience. He is not only
the founding director of NYU data science
center but has been inculcating more fresh
minds as a teacher in NewYork University
too.

5. Yoshua Bengio
A French born Canadian computer scientist,
Yoshua is the founder and R&D guru of
ApStatTechnologies. He is most noted for
his works on artificial neural networks and
deep learning.

6. Juergen
Schmidhuber
A German computer scientist and artist
known for his work on machine learning,
Artificial Intelligence, artificial neural
networks, digital physics, and low-
complexity art. He is driven by his ultimate
goal of building an AI smarter than himself
and then retire.

7. Alex “Sandy”
Pentland
A computer scientist, aToshiba professor at
MIT, a serial entrepreneur, Alex Paul
Pentland, donnes many hats. He was also
recently named as world’s most powerful
data scientist by Forbes. His interest mainly
lies in machine learning, artificial
intelligence and human computing.

8. Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig started his career as a
research scientist, worked as Head of
computational Science division at NASA for
6 years and is currently the Research
director at Google. He has been awarded
the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award,
ACM Fellow and AAAI Fellow to name a
few.

9. Corinna
Cortes
The Head of Research at Google, Corinna is
also a competitive runner and a mother of 2
beautiful children. She worked as a
researcher at AT&T Bell labs for over 10
years. She is most known for her research
work in artificial intelligence, machine
learning, general science and algorithms &
theory.

10. Micheal I
Jordan
A Professor at the University of California
Berkeley and a leading researcher in the
fields of machine learning and artificial
intelligence, Micheal’s research in recent
years has been more focused on Bayesian
non parametric analysis, probabilistic
graphical models, spectral methods, kernel
machines and applications to problems in
signal processing.

11. DJ Patil
This popular co-author of the famous HBR
article “Data Scientist – the sexiest job
of21st century” is currently employed as
the Chief Data Scientist atWhite House
Office of Science andTechnology Policy,
US. He previously worked asVP of RelateIQ
and Head of Data Products and Chief
Scientist at Linkedin and was elected as
2014Young Global Leader by theWorld
Economic Forum.

12. Adam Coates
With a PhD in Computer Science from
Stanford University, Adam works as the
Senior Director at Baidu SiliconValley AI
Lab. His interest areas mainly include
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Control
& Robotics.

13. Monica Rogati
Monica has been changing the data science
landscape in her career journey asVP of
Jawbone, senior data scientist at Linkedin
to Data Science Advisor at Insight Data
Science. Her passion lies in turning data
into products, actionable insights and
meaningful stories.

14. Olivier Grisel
Meet Olivier Grisel, the brains behind
Scikit-Learn. He has a specialization in
machine learning with applications to
natural language processing and
knowledge extraction. We also heard that
he is involved in delivering talks and tutorial
sessions on scikit-learn and predictive
modelling.

15. Owen Zhang
Owen Zhang was recently anointed as the
Superman of Data scientists by Intel as he
ranked #1 at Kaggle, a clearing house for
data science problems. Currently working
as Chief Product Officer at Data Robot, his
key interest area lies in Predictive Modeling
and Data Mining.

16. Kirk Borne
A data scientist, an astrophysicist and the
Principal Data Scientist in the Strategic
Innovation Group at Booz-Allen Hamilton
since 2015, Kirk Borne is one of the leading
data science influencers onTwitter and has
gathered a large fan following. He was
named as 2014 IBM Big Data and Analytics
hero and was also featured in aTedTalk
named “Big Data, Small World”.

17. Stanislav
Semenov
Stanislav holds the 3rd rank worldwide in
Kaggle and has won a multitude of data
science competitions such as Otto Group
Product Classification Challenge. He
teaches atYandex School of Data Analysis
and also acts as a data science consultant
for a lot of companies.

18. Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is an advocate and creator of
open source search technology Hadoop.
Currently, he works as the Chief Architect at
Cloudera. In 2015, O’Reilly awarded an
Open Source award to Doug Cutting for his
notable achievents.

19. Andrew Ng
The Co-Founder of Coursera, Andrew
currently works as the Chief Data Scientist
at Baidu, where he’s involved in carrying
out researches in Deep Learning and in
scalable approaches to Big Data and AI. He
is widely known for his Machine Learning
course which he made available through
Coursera to all!

20. Daphne Koller
An Israeli-American Professor at Stanford
University, she is the President and Co-
founders of Coursera. Her general research
area lies in artificial intelligence and its
applications in the biomedical sciences.
Daphne was also featured in a 2004 article
by MITTechnology Review titled "10
Emerging Technologies ThatWill Change
YourWorld“ concerning the topic of
Bayesian machine learning.

21. Hilary Mason
Hilary has founded many organizations
such as Fast Forward Labs, hackNY.org and
DataGotham. She got featured in the list of
Fortune 40 under 40 ones to watch 2011,
Craig’s 40 under Forty 2012. Her key
interest areas lie in Machine Learning, Data
Mining, Python and she has been making
leaps of advancement in each field with her
work.

22. Sebastian
Thrun
Sebastian is the Founder and CEO of
Udacity. Previously, he also founded
Google[x] and worked asVP, Fellow at
Google for 7 years. At Udacity, he aims to
democratize education so that everyone in
this world can receive world class
education. He dreams of making this world
a better place by empowering all people in
the world through knowledge.

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