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Coe College Contemporary Issues Forum

DJ Patil is considered to be one the most influential data scientists in the world. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first U.S. chief data scientist and was tasked with making the U.S. Federal Government a data-driven enterprise. He helped establish new health care programs, criminal justice reforms and directed efforts to leverage social network analysis to anticipate emerging threats to the U.S. Patil was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, which is the highest honor the department bestows on a civilian, for his extensive work in national security initiatives. In 2014, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, and he is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. In the private sector, Patil led product teams at RelateIQ, was a founding board member for Crisis Text Line and was also chief scientist, chief security officer and head of analytics and data product teams at the LinkedIn Corporation, where he co-coined the term “data scientist.”

Tickets
Free | Coe students, faculty and staff
$10 | General public
$5 | Non-Coe students and seniors

Coe Box Office
www.coe.edu/box-office | 319.399.8600
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM Monday-Friday

Virtual tickets to view a livestream of the event can be purchased for $10 at www.coecollege.ticketleap.com/cif2024/

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