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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.