Rayid Ghani was the Chief Scientist at Obama for America 2012 campaign
focusing on analytics, technology, and data. His work in the campaign focused
on improving different functions of the campaign including fundraising,
volunteer, and voter mobilization using analytics, social media, and machine
learning. Before joining the campaign, Rayid was a Senior Research Scientist
and Director of Analytics research at Accenture Labs where he led a technology
research team focused on applied R&D in analytics, machine learning, and data
mining for large-scale & emerging business problems. In addition, Rayid serves
as an adviser to several start-ups in Analytics, is an active organizer of and
participant in academic and industry analytics conferences, and publishes
regularly in machine learning and data mining conferences and journals.