The Data-X course and project brings together students, technical experts, start-up companies, and executives. Each brings a different perspective to data, algorithms, and scale. In addition, you get an opportunity to buy article online if you become a member of the Data-X course.
Advisors and Mentor Directory for Data-X
Data-X Advisors:
- Peter Cnudde, VP Yahoo!
- Shomit Ghose, Partner OnSet Ventures
- Nita Sharma, Product Development Leader
- Paul O’Leary, CTO, Kissmetrics
- Gerry Pesavento, Sr. Director Yahoo! Inc.
- Kevin Bozhe Li, UC Berkeley, IEOR
- Roberto Zicari, Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Full Professor at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany
- Sanjeev Verma, Blockchain
New Ventures Advisors with Potential Projects:
- Yaron Oren, CEO Maverick
- Antonio Vitti, Founder, AI SaaS start-up CFO
- Scott Jarr, Co-founder, VoltDB
- Aleks Gollu, CEO Founder
- Cyril Ebersweiler, Partner SOSV, Hardware
- Steven Gustafson, Chief Scientist, MAANA
Berkeley Venture Teams with Potential Projects:
- Ted Xiao, Berkeley Venture Team
- Sampath Duddu, Berkeley Venture Team
- Luigi Rodrigues, Berkeley Venture Team
- Dax Vivid, PhD., Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley
Student Resource Groups:
- Valley Consulting Group: Kunal Desai, President, Jason Bao, John Yang, Valley, Aakash Shah, Andrew Low
- Blockchain Advising: Blockchain at Berkeley
Project Concept Links:
- New Venture Success (link)
- Concept: Blockchain based social currency to regulate social platform such as Twitter (link)
- Concept: Personal Genome Hacking (link)
- Concept: Holy Grail of Venture Capital (link)
- AI Music Software development student cooperation opportunity (link)
- Concept: Predicting future outcomes based on historical records (link)
- Concept: US Power Plant project (link)
- Concept: Multi-disciplinary data analysis of common psychological conditions (link)
- Concept: Visualizing investment opportunities in touristic regions (Open Data for Greece 1.0) (link)
- Concept: The University Bot (link)
- Concept: Materials Recycling using Machine Learning
- Concept: Insights from Personal Photos
- Fuzzy Joins – A Modeling Discussion forProbabilistic Joins in Data Tables
- Concept: Faculty Research Matching with NLP and ML
- Concept: Inferred Information via Probabilistic Joins
Extended Mentor Network:
- Amir Najian, Geospatial Data Scientist at RMS – Geospatial Machine Learning and uncertainty modeling in Geocoder systems
- Phil Kaminsky, IEOR/Supply Chain, UC Berkeley
- Sujit Chakravarthy, Financial Industry
- Amit Nagpal, Yahoo, Architect and Director
- Fabio Gava, Samsung SRA, Senior Director, Smart TV Software
- Patrick Chung, Partner X-Fund
- Jessika Lora, CEO & Founder of TheCarForce
- Prof. Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean
- Nagaraju Chayapathi, Data Goverance, Intuit
- Shail Rajput, Western Digital, Director, Data Solutions
- Ed Fernandez, Early stage & Startup VC. Advisor
- Sowmya Ramani, Criteo, Senior Engineering Program Manager (EPM)
- Chunlei Zhang, Applied Materials, Senior Engineering Manager
- Rajkumar Chandrasekaran, Former Director of Engineering (Diner Experience) at OpenTable
- Ian Lee, Executive in Residence at IDEO
- Meral Shirazipour, Senior Researcher, Ericsson Research – Machine Intelligence, GF Technology & Emerging Business
- Suzanne Tan, Director, Yahoo, – Video and Display Advertising
- Stephen Torres, UC Berkeley