Oliver
(Olly) Downs, PhD Currently:
Chief Scientist, Analytical Insights, Inc.
odowns@analyticalinsights.com (206) 686 3792
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Olly Downs is a machine learning
scientist and serial technology entrepreneur, credited with bringing advanced
analytics and machine learning methods to bear as the creative spark behind
numerous early-stage technology companies. Olly is currently SVP, Data Sciences at
Globys and also serves in advisory roles with a number of companies in online
display advertising, context aware computing, semantic technologies,
broadcast data services, and individualized medicine, through his company Analytical Insights, Inc. Olly specializes in applying abstract
analytical ideas from mathematical, physical and statistical science to
problems in the real world and commercializing them into significant
businesses; to date this has resulted in 19 US patents pending in the fields
of Bayesian Prediction, Statistical Estimation, Outlier Detection, Real-Time
GPS Data Processing and 18 granted patents in the fields of Quantum
Optimization Algorithms, Dynamic Time Series Prediction, Location-based Data
Probes, Anomaly Detection and Scalable Spatial Search. Olly has served in Chief Scientist roles
at AdReady, Atigeo and Mindset Media (sold to
Meebo, February 2011) and as Director of Research at Pelago (sold to GroupOn,
April 2011). As Principal Scientist at INRIX, the first technology spin-out from Microsoft Research, Olly delivered a world-first in the provision of real-time traffic
information using a nationwide network of GPS-enabled probe vehicles (named 2007 Breakthrough Technology of the Year by the Washington Software Alliance). Olly’s work has included pioneering
web-facing applications of predictive analytics and probabilistic and
location-based reasoning for AdReady, Farecast and MSN in addition to offline
analytics; including financial mathematics, quantum computing and Bayesian
prediction, for Nokia, SiriusXM, Globys, L1 Partners, D-Wave Systems, Apollo
Data Technologies, Microsoft Research, Barnes & Noble, Knight Ridder,
Ryder and IGT. Olly has also spent time in research
roles at Microsoft Research and Bell Labs. Olly holds PhD and MA degrees in Applied & Computational Mathematics from Princeton University, and BA, MA and MSci degrees in Experimental & Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK. He has an Erdös Number of 3.
(Big Data
Republic, October 2013) Meet the Data Scientist: Oliver Downs. Full
Text (Information
Week, September 2013) Big Data Profile: Olly Downs, Globys. Full
Text (Fast
Company, June 2013) How To Maximize Your Company’s Investment In Data. Full
Text (Wired, May
2013) The Path to Big Data Execution and Discovery. Full
Text (PSBJ, March
2013) Big bucks for ‘big data’ in hot new tech field. Full
Text (WSJ: AllThingsD, March 2013) How Data Science Is Advancing the
“Nudge” to Influence Mobile Behaviors. Full
Text (GeekWire, July 2012) Geek of the Week: Olly Downs on
stats, science and racecars. Full Text (SemanticWeb.com,
June 2010) Atigeo: Interview with
Chief Scientist Dr. Oliver “Olly” Downs.
Full
Text (Seattle
Times, August 2007) Math whiz had I-5's number. Full
Text (King5 News,
August 2007) I-5 closure will impact Southcenter, Eastside, Everett. Video (WMV) (Technology
Review, January 2006) A new service from Kirkland, WA-based Inrix predicts
traffic slowdowns by crunching road sensor data, weather, history, and local
events. Full
Text (Technology
Review, July 2005) D-Wave Systems is building a 'quantum' computer to solve
intractable real-world problems. The secret: cooling the chip to -269 C with
liquid helium. Full Text Publications:
Recent
Presentations ·
Moneyball: How buying by “On
Base Percentage” rather than “RBIs” drives results in Display Advertising. (Presented
at Seattle Interactive Conference, Nov 2011): Presentation
Slides ·
The Science of
Prediction – How Next Generation Traffic Services Will Impact Location-Based
Applications (presented at Where 2.0, June 2006): Online Slideshow
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