Jeremy Howard

Howard teaches data science at company Singularity University. He is also a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, and spoke at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 on "Jobs For The Machines." Howard advised Khosla Ventures as their Data Strategist, identifying the biggest opportunities for investing in data-driven startups and mentoring their portfolio companies to build data-driven businesses.

In August 2014, Howard founded Enlitic to use machine learning to make medical diagnostics and clinical decision support tools faster, more accurate, and more accessible. Enlitic uses Deep Learning algorithms to diagnose illness and disease. Howard believes that today, machine learning algorithms are actually as good as or better than humans at many things that we think of as being uniquely human capabilities.

In December 2011, Wired Magazine ran a piece on Howard, calling him 'The Accidental Scientist'. Howard was also interviewed by the McKinsey Quarterly, where he explained that the rapid advance of machine learning presents an economic paradox; while productivity is rising, employment may not. By December 2013, Howard had left his position as President of Kaggle.

Howard first became involved with Kaggle, founded in April 2010, after becoming the globally top-ranked participant in data science competitions in both 2010 and 2011. The competitions that Howard won involved tourism forecasting and predicting the success of grant applications. Howard then became the President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle.

While in Australia, Howard founded two successful startups: the email provider FastMail.FM, which he sold to Opera Software, and the insurance pricing optimization company Optimal Decisions Group (ODG), which he sold to ChoicePoint. FastMail was one of the first email products that enabled users to integrate their familiar desktop clients. In a 2005 comparison of the world's top web-based email systems, PC World ranked FastMail.FM and GMail as the superior services, saying "if you take your e-mail seriously, FastMail is the service for you." As of Q4 2014, both Optimal Decisions Group and FastMail are still operational.

Howard was born in London, United Kingdom, and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1976. He attended Melbourne Grammar and studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne.

Jeremy Howard (born 13 November 1973) is an Australian data scientist and entrepreneur. He began his career in management consulting, at McKinsey & Company and AT Kearney. Howard went on to co-found FastMail in 1999 and Optimal Decisions Group. He later joined Kaggle, an online community for data scientists, as President and Chief Scientist.