MAD Skills: A Magnetic, Agile and Deep Approach to Scalable Analytics

Brian is a business analyst with a Masters in Biomathematics from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Masters in Pure Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Brian has more than 17 years of analytic experience, and has worked at Yahoo, MySpace, UCLA. He turns massive peta-scale data sets, from multi-terabyte databases , into strategic decisions. His forte is mapping complicated mathematical models into actionable business solutions. He is a frequent speaker on Machine learning topics at the Institute for Business Forecasters, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and SAS and is the co-author of several relevant white papers including the Mad Skills paper.

Joseph M. Hellerstein is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, whose work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. He is an ACM Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and the recipient of two ACM-SIGMOD “Test of Time” awards for his research. In 2010, Fortune Magazine included him in their list of 50 smartest people in technology , and MIT’s Technology Review magazine included his work on Distributed Programming on their 2010 TR10 list of the 10 technologies “most likely to change our world”. Key ideas from his research have been incorporated into commercial and open-source software from IBM, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. He is a past director of Intel Research Berkeley, and has served on the technical advisory boards of a number of technology companies including EMC, Swivel and SurveyMonkey.

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