Chris A. Mattmann

Chris Mattmann is division manager of the Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Innovative Development Organization at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, where he has been recognized as JPL’s first principal scientist in the area of data science. Chris has applied TensorFlow to challenges he’s faced at NASA, including building an implementation of Google’s Show & Tell algorithm for image captioning using TensorFlow. He contributes to open source projects as a former director of the Apache Software Foundation and teaches graduate courses in content detection and analysis, as well as search engines and information retrieval, at the University of Southern California. Chris's work on Apache Tika allowed researchers and journalists to break the story on the Panama Papers, and ultimately to win the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.