3rd SMD and ETD Workshop on A.I. and Data Science: Leaping Toward Our Future Goals

Nikunj Oza is the leader of the Data Sciences Group at NASA Ames Research Center and manager of an ARMD subproject that researches and applies machine learning to aviation safety and operations. His 50+ research papers represent his research interests, which include data mining, machine learning, ensemble learning, anomaly detection, and their applications to Aeronautics and Earth Science. 

He received the Arch T. Colwell Award for co-authoring one of the five most innovative technical papers selected from 3300+ SAE technical papers in 2005. In 2019, he was named by Cognilytica as one of 50 key people in the US government working to move the adoption of AI forward across the industry. He received his B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT in 1994, and M.S. (in 1998) and Ph.D. (in 2001) in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.