Jeff Hammerbacher
Jeff Hammerbacher is a data scientist as well as formerly chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera. In addition he was formerly on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Career
Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Jeff led the data team at Facebook. Jeff Hammerbacher was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera. Jeff worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. He earned his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University where he was also a member of the Spee Club.
Hammerbacher has been featured for his work in Forbes, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Harvard Business Review, NY Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and others.
He has been quoted saying, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” about product and engineering talents being employed in masses by companies such as Google and Facebook to work on advertising-related algorithms.
