Tea With CXO | Jeff Jonas

Jeff Jonas is an acclaimed data scientist who thrives on solving some of the world’s most complex business challenges. His systems extract useful intelligence from tsunamis of data. Prior to July 2016, Jonas was an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing. In this capacity, he led a team focused on next generation context computing. Code named “G2”, this technology is used to modernize voter registration in American in a joint effort with Pew Charitable Trusts, and helping the Singaporean Government better protect the Malacca Straights. His work in context-aware computing was originally developed at Systems Research & Development (SRD) founded by Jonas in 1985 and acquired by IBM in January 2005.

In August of 2016 Jonas announced the launch of his next start up, Senzing, which will use G2 to democratize Entity Resolution – delivering affordable, accurate, real time, Entity Resolution to the world at large. He is on the boards of the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, (USGIF) and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Distinguished Engineer of Information Systems (adjunct) at Singapore Management University. He is currently the author or co-author of 14 patents and has been awarded an honorary Ph.D in science from Claremont Graduate University.