Siraj Raval
Founder and Chief Data Scientist in Boise, ID, US
A published author and popular YouTube educator, Siraj Raval has served as chief data scientist at the School of AI in San Francisco, California, since founding the company in 2016. With 715,000 subscribers and more than 100 million views, School of AI is recognized as the single most followed YouTube channel dealing with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Siraj Raval began his career in 2013 as a software engineer at Meetup in New York City, followed by work as a mobile engineer for CBS Interactive and in a development position at Twilio. During his time with School of AI, he has successfully developed more than 200 GitHub codebases that facilitate ML education for beginners and over 400 in-depth video tutorials.
Mr. Raval studied computer science at Columbia University, graduating with his bachelor of arts in 2013. He is a member of the Columbia University Alumni Association. When he is not leading activities at the School of AI, he spends time increasing his knowledge and expanding his professional offerings by attending industry events such as the Nvidia GTC Conference and The Next Web Conference.