
Dr. Shantanu Agrawal
Deputy Administrator for Program Integrity Director
Center for Program Integrity, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Shantanu Agrawal is a Board-certified Emergency Medicine physician and Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. He is currently serving as an appointee for the Obama Administration as Deputy Administrator for Program Integrity and Director of the Center for Program Integrity at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). His focus is to improve healthcare affordability and value in Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA Marketplace. Prior to this role, Dr. Agrawal served as Chief Medical Officer of the Center for Program Integrity, where he helped to launch new initiatives in data transparency and analytics, utilization management, assessment of novel payment models, and a major public-private partnership between CMS and private payers.
Prior to joining CMS, Dr. Agrawal was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving senior management of hospitals, health systems, and biotech and pharmaceutical companies on projects to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. Dr. Agrawal has also worked for a full-risk, capitated delivery system as the head of clinical innovation and efficiency. He has published articles in JAMA, New England Journal of MedicineAnnals of Emergency Medicine, Politics & Policy, among others, and has given national presentations on health care policy and the cost of care.
Dr. Agrawal completed his undergraduate education at Brown University, medical education at Cornell University Medical College, and clinical training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also has a Masters degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University. Dr. Agrawal has continued to work clinically both in academic and community settings and holds an academic position in Washington DC.
KEYNOTE: Implementing Predictive Analytics at CMS: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Antuane Allen
Specialist
Sanametrix
Session: Words that Matter: Application of Text Analytics at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Dann Barnes
SMTS
Sandia National Laboratories

Lewis Broome
Principal Consultant, Data Services Practice Lead
!mpact Makers
Session: Building a Durable Data Foundation for an Analytical Environment

Miguel Castillo
Assistant Inspector General for Audit
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Session: Words that Matter: Application of Text Analytics at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Vijay D'Souza
Director
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Session: Characteristics for Those Who Claiming Social Security Benefits Early

Kenny Darrell
Lead Data Scientist
Elder Research, Inc.
Prior to joining Elder Kenny has been a Control Systems Engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory and CDI Corp with a primary focus on aviation. Through working on projects related to image recognition, tracking systems, rare event detection and sensor data fusion he realized he could have more fun applying these techniques to more than just aviation issues. Mr. Darrell earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering and a MS in Quantitative Analysis from the University of Cincinnati, where his research focused on combining data mining algorithms to increase performance.
Outside of work he enjoys cooking, weight lifting and adding new items to his ever growing list of things he gets very excited about for a few weeks and then loses interest in (flying, skydiving, boating, mountain biking, the list goes on). He also enjoys balancing his wife, an artist, out with his more technical logical approach to life although others seem to say the situation is reversed.
Session: Data Munging/Wrangling with R

Tom Donnelly
Systems Engineer
SAS JMP
Donnelly joined JMP after working as an analyst for the Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Branch of the US Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. There, he used DOE to develop, test, and evaluate technologies for detection, protection and decontamination of chemical and biological agents.
Session: Building Better Models Using Robust Data Mining Methods

Jennifer Dubois
Director, Operations & Technology Risk Analytics
Fannie Mae
Session: Harnessing the Power of Predictive Analytics for Technology Risk Management

Dr. John Elder, Ph.D.
Founder & Chair
Elder Research
John Elder chairs America’s most experienced Data Science consultancy. Founded in 1995, Elder Research has offices in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Washington DC, and London. Dr. Elder co-authored 3 award-winning books on analytics, was a discoverer of ensemble methods, chairs international conferences, and is a popular keynote speaker. John is occasionally an Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia.
PLENARY SESSION: Doing Space-Age Analytics with Our Hunter-Gatherer Brains

Wayne Folta
Senior Data Scientist
Elder Research
Data Scientist Wayne Folta enjoys diving into a new problem space, working with customers to clarify their needs and objectives, and using sophisticated tools and analysis to turn their data into insights. His major technical interests are sequence models and deep neural nets. Previously, Wayne developed software in the intelligence community as a government employee and a contractor, and worked in the non-profit world as a video producer. Wayne volunteers in his community, teaching and providing statistical consulting for the local library and others.
Wayne earned a Master's Degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from George Mason University, and is also an alumnus of the University of Maryland and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Wayne enjoys snowboarding, the ancient game of Go, and learning R packages and other statistical tools.

Ravi Goyal
Statistician
Mathematica Policy Research
Session: Predicting HIV Transmission Networks

John Herzer
Enterprise Search Project Lead
Sandia National Laboratories
Session: Enhancing Search Results Relevance Using Word2Vec Language Models

Gary Huang
Sandia National Laboratories

Vishal Kapur
Principal
Deloitte
Vishal Kapur is a principal in Deloitte's Federal Financial Regulatory practice and has advised clients such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Financial Research in several mission modernization initiatives. Vishal has extensive experience in implementing enabling technologies spanning mobile, digital, analytics and mission specific applications to support his client's mission objectives. As a leader of Deloitte's Federal Analytics practice, Vishal is actively engaged in the industry and with his clients in areas such as advanced analytics, big data, text mining, and large scale data management disciplines. Vishal received a master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, India.

Matthew Keir
Senior Analyst, Market Analytics
New Zealand Electricity Authority
Prior to joining the Electricity Authority, Matthew worked for a large state-owned generator using analytics to inform engineering upgrade decisions that optimized performance of a tightly coupled low-head cascade hydro system.
Matthew has a Mechanical Engineering bachelor's degree and PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Floris Korteweg
Analysis Specialist
The National Police of the Netherlands
Floris holds a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in Criminology from the VU University of Amsterdam.
Session: The Application of Predictive Policing with Police Helicopters

Michael Li
CEO
Pragmatic Institute
Michael Li founded The Data Incubator, a New York-based training program that turns talented PhDs from academia into workplace-ready data scientists and quants. The program is free to Fellows, and routinely accepts just 1% of applicants. Employers engage with the Incubator as hiring partners.
Previously, Michael worked as a data scientist (Foursquare), Wall Street quant (D.E. Shaw, J.P. Morgan), and a rocket scientist (NASA). He completed his PhD at Princeton as a Hertz fellow and read Part III Maths at Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar. At Foursquare, Michael discovered that his favorite part of the job was teaching and mentoring smart people about data science. He decided to build a startup to focus on what he really loves.
Michael lives in New York, where he enjoys the Opera, rock climbing, and attending geeky data science events. You can find out more at www.thedataincubator.com.
Session: Having a Data Science Mindset

Paola Libraro
Data Scientist
Booz Allen Hamilton
Session: Reducing Flight Delays Through Predictive Analytics

Brien Lorenze
Principal
Deloitte Advisory
Brien has held a number of leadership positions serving Deloitte's national security and civilian clients and is responsible for business growth, delivery and talent development. He has led by fostering an environment of collaboration and blending capabilities in data science, forensic accounting, counter-threat finance, anti-money laundering, corporate investigations, systems integration, supply chain and advanced analytics.
Prior to Deloitte, Brien was a Managing Director at BearingPoint and a Principal in IBM Global Services where he held a number of leadership roles, including founding IBM's Public Sector Business Innovation Solution group in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Session: Advanced Analytics to Catch Sophisticated Fraudsters

Andrew Lutes
Data Scientist
Elder Research, Inc.
In his spare time, Andrew enjoys water skiing, lacrosse, logic puzzles, and philosophy conversations.

David Marx
Data Scientist
Elder Research, Inc.
David earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Pitzer College and is completing a Master of Science in Mathematics & Statistics at Georgetown University. For nearly a decade David served as an EMT/Firefighter with the Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad in Montgomery County, where he absorbed lessons in leadership, planning, management and decision making.
In his spare time, David enjoys attending live music, playing soccer, snowboarding, camping, and tinkering with various analytics and programming hobby projects.

Dr. Jason Matheny
Director, IARPA
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Dr. Jason Matheny became IARPA's director in 2015, after serving as a program manager, associate office director, and office director. Before IARPA, he worked at Oxford University, the World Bank, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Center for Biosecurity and Princeton University, and is the co-founder of two biotechnology companies. His research has been published in Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Risk Analysis, Tissue Engineering and the World Health Organization's Disease Control Priorities, among others. His research has been profiled in the New York Times' annual "Ideas of the Year," Discover Magazine's "Top Science Stories of the Year," as well as NOVA, Scientific American and the Economist. Dr. Matheny holds a doctorate in applied economics from Johns Hopkins, a master's in public health from Johns Hopkins, a master's in business administration from Duke and a bachelor's from the University of Chicago. He received the Intelligence Community's Award for Individual Achievement in Science and Technology.
KEYNOTE: IARPA's Forecasting Tournaments

Ryan McGibony
Senior Data Scientist
Elder Research
Ryan McGibony came to Elder Research after earning a Master of Science in Analytics from North Carolina State University. In his previous work, he conducted and analyzed custom marketing research for corporate and non-profit clients at a full-service research firm. While there, he gained experience in customer segmentation and predictive modeling techniques. Ryan also spent two years in Mongolia as a Peace Corps volunteer, supporting the staff of a local chamber of commerce in improving their service delivery to member businesses. Throughout his career, Ryan has enjoyed working with a wide variety of clients, taking care to understand their needs, and finding solutions to their problems.
Session: Network Analysis for Fraud Detection with Open-Source Tools

Dan Olson
Senior Manager
Deloitte Advisory
Dan worked for 12 years in the Office of Inspector General for a large state Medicaid agency developing multiple pharmaceutical pre-payment analytics that resulted in multi-million dollar annual cost savings. Dan spent the past nine years as the healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse subject matter specialist in the design of predictive analytics and a fully integrated case management system. Dan has authored five healthcare white papers and testified before Congress regarding recommendations to identify healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse while serving as a healthcare fraud resource to Congressional leaders.
Dan is a charter member of the Advisory Council for and certified by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners plus a member of the Data Science Association.
Session: Advanced Analytics to Catch Sophisticated Fraudsters

Dae Park
Assistant Director
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Session: Characteristics for Those Who Claiming Social Security Benefits Early

Brittany Pugh
Data Scientist
Elder Research, Inc.
Session: Data Visualizations with R and Shiny

Brock Ramos
Office of Program Evaluation and Risk Analysis
IRS
Brock Ramos is a Senior Program and Risk Analyst with the office of Research, Applied Analytics and Statistics within the Internal Revenue Service. Brock has been with the IRS for 9 years. As a senior analyst, Brock has worked with clients across the IRS utilizing a variety of skill sets from Survey and Focus Group design to statistical analysis. He has been a part of initiatives ranging from enhancing employee engagement, to forecasting the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on taxpayers and the IRS, to using link analysis to create new and innovative ways of thinking about taxpayers. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University and currently resides in Austin, TX.

Rick Reames, III
Director
South Carolina Department of Revenue
Rick Reames III was appointed Director of the South Carolina Department of Revenue by Governor Nikki Haley on July 18, 2014 and unanimously confirmed by the South Carolina Senate on March 5, 2015. Reames has worked to reduce bureaucracy, streamline operations, and ensure fiscal responsibility and accountability of the state's tax dollars. He is committed to fair and consistent administration of the law to reduce the overall tax burden for the citizens of South Carolina.
A private-sector attorney for 15 years, Reames brings expertise in all matters of state and local taxes and strong business acumen to his position as the state's chief revenue officer. Reames has instituted strategic hiring practices to fill critical needs while simultaneously reducing duplicative and unnecessary positions. He has rebuilt a depleted legal team and significantly increased taxpayer education and public awareness, directing a nearly 300% increase from the previous year in the Department's issuance of public policy guidance. This action reduces confusion over complicated government requirements, resolves legal ambiguities and makes it easier for taxpayers to comply with the law.
For the first time in agency history, Reames instituted a comprehensive measurement program to track key functions, evaluate performance, cut waste and achieve improvement. He has revamped the Department's organizational structure to maximize efficiency and productivity and slashed the turnaround time of several key agency functions from averages of three to five weeks to just three to five days. In addition, Reames has implemented a number of cost-saving strategies such as privatizing the processing of paper tax returns for an estimated savings of $2 million over the next 10 years.
Reames received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Wofford College, a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law, and a Master of Laws in taxation from New York University School of Law. Reames is originally from Florence, SC, and currently resides in Columbia with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children.
KEYNOTE: Reinventing Refund Rhetoric: Using Predictive Analytics to Fight Fraud

Dave Saranchak
Data Scientist
Elder Research, Inc.
Dave's passion for World War II history steered him to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve at the age of 17. While serving, he pursued his other passion of discovering and teaching mathematical connections to the universe at Villanova University, where he earned two B.S. degrees, one in mathematics and another in physics. He also holds two M.S. degrees, one in applied mathematics and another in telecommunications from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dave enjoys reading, martial arts and all outdoor activities. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland with his wife, Caitlyn, English Bull Terrier, Ferdinand, and an unknown number of horses (since his wife has yet to disclose the exact number).
Session: Analytics with Apache Spark

Andy Schaufele
Director, Bureau of Revenue Estimates
Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury
Mr. Schaufele is in his third year as Director of the Bureau of Revenue Estimates after serving for several years as the Assistant Director. Before joining the Comptroller's Office, Andy spent seven years in various private sector management positions, working in both consumer and commercial oriented product lines. Andy holds a bachelor's degree from Towson University, where he studied management and economics, and a Master of Business Administration from the joint University of Baltimore and Towson University program. Over the last six years Andy has championed the tax agency's adaptation of analytics and data warehousing with a focus towards improving decision making criteria and fraud detection. He is a Baltimore native, and currently lives in Severna Park, Maryland with his wife, daughter, and son.
PLENARY SESSION: Tax Fraud Analytics in Maryland -- The Evolution, Challenges, and Rewards

Rachel Sullivan
Program Analyst
Human Capital Analytics Division, Office of Human Resources Management

Robin Thottungal
Agency Chief Data Scientist / Dir. Of Analytics, OIM
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Robin A Thottungal is the EPA's first chief data scientist focused creating and implementing an agency-wide vision on analytics for effective data-driven decision making. He is also one of the founding members of the US White House Data Cabinet focusing on bringing data leaders across the government to a single platform. Prior to joining EPA, Robin was at Deloitte Consulting providing strategic advising to client on different aspect of creating a culture of using data within their organization. Robin has also served as Selection Panelist for the American Academy of Sciences Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy for the past two years and also held Vice-Chair position for the IEEE Washington DC section.

Chad Tompkins
Data Section Chief
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Jaya Tripathi
Principal, Data Analytics
MITRE Corporation
Jaya Tripathi is a Principal Scientist and an advanced analytics expert in The MITRE Corporation’s Information Technology Technical Center.
She is the principal investigator in MITRE's effort to apply health IT concepts to address prescription drug misuse and abuse. She has been working in this domain for many years and has collaborated with law enforcement officials, physicians, policy makers, Board of Pharmacy, academicians and state and Federal partners.
She has been at MITRE for 14 years. Before joining MITRE, Ms. Tripathi worked at several multinational corporations, applying big data analytics on projects such as a customer retention forecasting pilot for a major telecommunications company, and the origin-and-destination revenue management, one of the most significant innovations in the airline industry. She holds master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the University of Texas.

Patrick van Vliet
Captain, Business Intelligence Center
The National Police of the Netherlands
Patrick van Vliet works for the National Police of the Netherlands. Mr. Van Vliet has over 10 years of experience within Intelligence Led Policing and Predictive policing. He serves as a police-captain within the Business Intelligence Competence Center of the Central Intelligence Division.
Mr. Van Vliet has worked on a number of business intelligence applications focused on dealing with cyber crime, violent crime and terrorism. He focuses on applying predictive policing to national issues.
Session: The Application of Predictive Policing with Police Helicopters

Weishin Wang
Bureau Chief of the Bureau of Fraud Science and Technology
Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family services, Office of Inspector General
Mr. Wang has served as the Project Manager and the Acting Project Director for a 4.8 million CMS Medicaid Transformation Grant. During the project years from 2007 to 2011, Mr. Wang has successfully led the team to establish a comprehensive Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) data analytic online management information system to perform aggressive prediction, outlying selection, profiling inquires and linking analysis on potential fraud or waste abuse Medicaid providers and recipients.
The ROI and cost of avoidance of the aforementioned Medicaid Transformation Grant is very prominent: The OIG has identified $23million dollars of fraudulent transportation services and a corresponding policy change has rendered a significant 70% reduction of Group Psychotherapy Services from 2009 to 2011 with an estimated saving of $35 million.
Mr. Wang has been working in the health department of Illinois for last twenty three years. Prior to his current OIG position, he served as a Project Director and had developed a statewide Mental Health fee-for-service initiative on Medicaid and Grant-in-Aid provider online tracking system, which is now a benchmark for the similar systems.
He has received a Master Degree in Mathematics concentrating in Computer Science and a bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
Session: Advanced Analytics to Catch Sophisticated Fraudsters

Ryan Weil, Ph.D
Principal Scientist
Lockheed Martin IS&GS
M. Ryan Weil, Ph.D. is a Principal Scientist in the Health and Life Sciences group of Lockheed Martin IS&GS. Ryan has nearly 20 years of experience in genomics and bioinformatics, and previously he served as the Program Manager in support of the CDC's Office of Infectious Disease Bioinformatics and Data Analytics effort. Ryan received a BS in Microbiology from Texas A&M College Station and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Session: Infer and Characterize the Transmission Network in An Opioid-driven HIV-1 Outbreak

Jane Wiseman
Senior Fellow
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School.
Jane Wiseman leads the Institute for Excellence in Government, a non-profit consulting firm dedicated to improving government performance. She is also an Innovations in American Government Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She has served as an appointed official in government and as a financial advisor and consultant to government.
Her current consulting, research, and writing focus on government innovation, data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency in government. With the Harvard Ash Center, she supports a national network of urban Chief Data Officers to accelerate the use of analytics in local government. With Harvard Ash Center, she created an open platform for government access to the best examples of government operational efficiency approaches, with case studies showing successful implementation. She has advised the US cities funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies in their Mayors Challenge competition. She has written on customer-centric government, data-driven decision-making in government, pretrial justice, and 311 for a variety of audiences.
Her prior consulting work has included organizational strategy, performance management and eGovernment strategy work for Accenture and Price Waterhouse. Selected clients include the National Governor’s Association, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Criminal Justice Association, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States Postal Service, the State of Michigan, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Department of Commerce.
Ms. Wiseman has served as Assistant Secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and as Assistant to the Director for Strategic Planning, National Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice. Ms. Wiseman represented the Justice Department on detail as a Staff Assistant for the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. Ms. Wiseman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Smith College and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Pengchu Zhang
Computer Scientist
Sandia National Laboratories
Session: Enhancing Search Results Relevance Using Word2Vec Language Models