Chris Mattmann has been named UCLA’s inaugural chief data and artificial intelligence officer. The position is the first of its kind at any University of California campus and one of just a few at universities in the U.S. Mattmann’s hiring was recently announced to the UCLA community.
In his new role, Mattmann will collaborate with stakeholders across UCLA to develop and implement a strategic roadmap for data and AI innovations. His leadership will enable the ethical deployment of AI technologies while enhancing UCLA’s capabilities in advanced data and analytics, fostering a culture of innovation and discovery that is aligned with the campus’s mission.
“I am honored to join UCLA,” said Mattmann, who joined UCLA following a distinguished 24-year tenure at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he most recently served as chief technology and innovation officer.
Mattman, author of the book “Machine Learning With TensorFlow,” also co-invented an Apache Tika framework that can extract data from any file type and simplify it into a common vocabulary and contributes to Google’s machine learning platform TensorFlow.
He holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Southern California and a public policy executive certificate from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
