Kirk Borne - Data Science From NASA Astrophysics to Digital Marketing to Lost in Space

Dr. Kirk Borne is the Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton (since 2015). He previously spent 12 years as Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science at George Mason University where he taught and advised students in the Data Science degree programs. Before that, he worked 18 years supporting NASA projects in various roles, including program manager in NASA's Space Science Data Operations Office and Data Archive Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope.

He is an active contributor on social media, where he is an advocate of data literacy for all and has been named consistently every year since 2013 among the top worldwide influencers in big data and data science. In 2013 he won the Dean's Impact Award for Faculty Excellence in the George Mason University College of Science. In 2014 he was named an IBM Big Data and Analytics Hero. In 2016 he was named Fellow of the International Astrostatistics Association.

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