Alex Jaimes

Alex is Chief AI Officer at Dataminr. He is a leader in AI and has built products that are used by millions of people (real-time event detection/emergency response, healthcare, self-driving cars, media, telecomm, etc.) at companies such as Yahoo, Telefónica, IBM, Fuji Xerox, Siemens, AT&T Bell Labs, DigitalOcean, etc. An early voice in Human-Centered AI (Computing), he has over 100 patents and publications in top-tier conferences and journals in AI. He has been featured widely in the press (MIT Tech review, CNBC, Vice, TechCrunch, Yahoo! Finance, etc.). He is a mentor at Endeavor and Techstars. He was an expert in the Colombian Government’s Artificial Intelligence Expert Mission which advised the President on AI policies. Alex holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.