Hilary Mason (data scientist)

Hilary Mason is an American data scientist and the founder of technology startup Fast Forward Labs[1][2] as well as Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners.[3] She was the Chief Scientist at bitly.[4]

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.[4][5][6]

Career

Mason was the chief data scientist at bitly for four years. In 2010, she co-founded HackNY, a non-profit that helps talented engineering students.

She has been interviewed by TechRepublic,[7]Forbes,[8] Wall Street Journal, ProgrammableWeb[9] and others.[10][11][12]

Awards

Mason received the TechFellows Engineering Leadership award in 2012 worth $100,000.[13] She was also on the Fortune 40 under 40 Ones to Watch list in 2011.[14]

She was named to the Top 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Ex-Bitly chief scientist Hilary Mason launches Fast Forward Labs as an all-in-one emerging tech consultant - VentureBeat - Big Data - by Jordan Novet". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Vanian, Jonathan (2014-07-21). "Former Bit.ly data scientist Hilary Mason starts own research consulting lab". Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. ↑ "Hilary Mason Will Make Sense Of Your Company's Massive Data Sets". Fast Company. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Hilary Mason - 2012 - 40 Under Forty - Crain's New York Business". Crain's New York blog. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Accel". accel.com. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Hilary Mason '00 featured in "Why a Liberal Education Creates Great Entrepreneurs"". Grinnell College. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Hilary Mason: Fast Forward Labs CEO. One-time aspiring taxi driver. Your nerd best friend.". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  8. ↑ "bitly's Hilary Mason on". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  9. ↑ "Interview Hilary Mason Chief Scientist bitly". ProgrammableWeb. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  10. ↑ "Hilary Mason Turns Big Data Into Plain English | Rising Stars | OZY". OZY. ozy. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  11. ↑ UTC, Lauren Drell2013-05-14 16:48:43. "Data Science and Why Dogs Rule the Internet". Mashable. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  12. ↑ "Data Stories: Interview with Hilary Mason of Bit.ly". Gnip Blog - Social Data and Data Science Blog. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  13. ↑ Constine, Josh. "The Winners Of This Year's $100,000 TechFellow Awards Are…". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  14. ↑ "40 Under 40: Ones to watch - Hilary Mason (13) - CNNMoney". archive.fortune.com. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  15. ↑ "99-100. Hilary Mason, Leslie Bradshaw". Fast Company. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

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