Hilary Mason is an American data scientist and the founder of technology startup Fast Forward Labs as well as Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners. She was the Chief Scientist at bitly. On September 7, 2017, Cloudera announced that it had acquired Fast Forward Labs, and that Mason would become Cloudera's Vice President of Research.
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Early life and education
Mason was born in New York City, and graduated from Grinnell College with a B.A. in computer science in 2000, and attended Brown University.
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Career
Mason was the chief data scientist at bitly for four years. She is the founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs and is a consultant data scientist at Accel, evaluating and advising on data strategies regarding technologies and investment opportunities. In 2010, she co-founded HackNY, a non-profit that helps integrate talented engineering students into the startup community in New York City. Mason further co-hosts DataGotham, a data driven event that celebrates the people and stories of the New York data community. She has also been a member of Mayor Bloomsberg's Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. In addition, Mason is a prominent member of NYCResistor, a hacker collective located in Brooklyn.
She has been interviewed by TechRepublic,Forbes, Wall Street Journal, ProgrammableWeb and others. She has further featured in both Glamour (magazine) and American Scientist
Fast Forward Labs
Fast Forward Labs, founded by Mason, specializes in machine learning intelligence research. The company assists organizations in engaging with data science and machine learning. It aims to update clients on the latest trends in applied artificial intelligence and how to best apply the most recent technologies to business opportunities. FFL helps navigate the vendor ecosystem whilst also analyzing capability gaps from a process, social, technical and organizational perspective.
The product they offer to clients includes applied machine learning and AI research reports, which provide information on emerging technologies and how impactful they will be in the near future . They offer quarterly reports with functional prototypes as well as weekly newsletters and event invitations. In addition, the service offers remote consulting (four hours per month) to field any follow up questions. In general their product aims to address strategy, specific products and any technological issues that may arise, effectively guiding from theory to practice.
Fast Forward Labs' most recent report discusses refractors, which predict churn probabilities for telecom customers, probabilistic programming language, which makes Bayesian inference accessible by quantifying uncertainty through the use of data and domain knowledge and loan office simulators which uses metrics to generate probabilistic models of loan repayments to assist in decision making regarding loan approvals. They also offered advice on probabilistic real estate, which predicts house pricing across all the New York City boroughs and how deep learning can help computers learn identification of new objects in images.
On September 7, 2017 it was announced that Fast Forward Labs was being acquired by Cloudera, a US open-source software company that offers support, training and software to business clients. Cloudera extended this offer due to FFL's experience and expertise in applying machine learning to practical business problems and their commitment to continual academic and industrial research surveys on new techniques. Mason explained that the merger of FFL with Cloudera would enable further and accelerated research opportunities on a larger platform.
Awards
Mason received the TechFellows Engineering Leadership award in 2012 worth $100,000. She was also on the Fortune 40 under 40 Ones to Watch list in 2011, as well as Crain's New York 40 under Forty list.
She was named within the Top 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company.
References
External links
- hilarymason.com
- cloudera.com
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