Chris Mattmann

Chris Mattmann

La Canada Flintridge, California, United States
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  • The Apache Software Foundation Graphic

    Board of Directors

    The Apache Software Foundation

    - 5 years

    Science and Technology

    One of nine Directors appointed yearly by the ASF membership consisting of over 400 of the world's brightest software professionals. Largest open source organization and a model for all other foundations in the open source domain.

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    Member, AI Council

    University of California Office of the President

    - Present 2 months

    Science and Technology

    The University of California (UC) is consistently on the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and development. While AI can pose significant gains in efficiency, effectiveness, and equity, ill-conceived deployments risk imposing disproportionate harms. In order to guide the appropriate implementation of AI within the UC system, President Drake formed a Presidential Working Group that is charged with developing overarching ethical principles and guides for the University’s…

    The University of California (UC) is consistently on the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and development. While AI can pose significant gains in efficiency, effectiveness, and equity, ill-conceived deployments risk imposing disproportionate harms. In order to guide the appropriate implementation of AI within the UC system, President Drake formed a Presidential Working Group that is charged with developing overarching ethical principles and guides for the University’s current and future use of AI.

    The Presidential Working Group will develop UC Ethical AI Principles to guide the development and application of AI in ways that are consistent with UC's mission and values. The final report will also provide recommendations to President Drake regarding best practices and guidance to:
    Develop methods and mechanisms to operationalize the UC Ethical AI Principles in the use of existing AI systems and the development of new applications of AI within the UC system, especially in areas likely to impact individual rights, including Health, Human Resources, Policing, and Student Experience.

    Working with faculty and staff leaders across UC to develop training and policies for responsible AI implementation.

  • Slingshot Aerospace Graphic

    Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    Slingshot Aerospace

    - Present 3 years 9 months

    Science and Technology

    Member of the Board of Advisors for Slingshot Aerospace. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/slingshot-aerospace-announces-board-advisors-140000993.html

  • Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation Graphic

    Member of the Board of Advisors

    Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation

    - Present 2 years 1 month

    Arts and Culture

    Working to promote the Rose Bowl, Pasadena's finest venue and international cultural icon, home of the iconic Rose Bowl game pitting the champion of the PAC-12 against the champion of the BIG-10, and paired annually with the iconic Rose Bowl Parade. Working to identify ways to grow the stadium's influence on arts, culture and the community in Pasadena.

    https://outlookvalleysun.outlooknewspapers.com/2023/03/25/rose-bowl-legacy-names-new-board-members/

  • Princeton University Graphic

    Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    Princeton University

    - Present 2 years 6 months

    Science and Technology

    Member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Research on the Information Environment (IRIE) in partnership with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. See https://spia.princeton.edu/news/carnegie-endowment-and-princeton-launch-groundbreaking-initiative-counter-threats-information

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    Curriculum Advisory Board Member, AI Bootcamp Host, & Design-athon Mentor

    Mark Cuban Foundation

    - Present 2 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

    Organized and ran the Pasadena AI bootcamp in 2021 & 2022 & 2023. In 2023, I was the Guest MC for 2 of the Bootcamp sessions and interviewed Mark Cuban during one of those sessions to spotlight Mark and all the great work he is doing in AI. In 2022. Also, I acted as a mentor for a Design-athon session. Really proud to be working with the Mark Cuban Foundation team in helping underserved youth. The Mark Cuban Foundation partners with technology leaders on a nationwide basis to deliver an AI…

    Organized and ran the Pasadena AI bootcamp in 2021 & 2022 & 2023. In 2023, I was the Guest MC for 2 of the Bootcamp sessions and interviewed Mark Cuban during one of those sessions to spotlight Mark and all the great work he is doing in AI. In 2022. Also, I acted as a mentor for a Design-athon session. Really proud to be working with the Mark Cuban Foundation team in helping underserved youth. The Mark Cuban Foundation partners with technology leaders on a nationwide basis to deliver an AI curriculum to students at scale.

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    Co-Founder

    The Sporting Tribune

    - Present 2 years 3 months

    Science and Technology

    Head of technology advisement and co-founder at The Sporting Tribune, where Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Hawaii sports media converge. Real reporters, real coverage, that represents the most diverse region in sports. Head of web3 and the intersection of sports technology and experience. See https://www.barrettsportsmedia.com/2022/09/14/the-sporting-tribune-debuts/

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    Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    Consilient

    - Present 4 years

    Science and Technology

    Member of the Board of Advisors at Consilient, an amazing startup focused on applying machine learning, AI and intelligence to diverse problems in defense, and government including financial crimes, anti-money laundering, and other causes.

  • Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    Giant Oak, Inc.

    - 2 years 3 months

    Science and Technology

    Member of the Board of Advisors at Giant Oak, an amazing startup focused on applying machine learning, AI and intelligence to diverse problems in defense, and government including financial crimes, anti-money laundering, and other causes.

  • Head Coach & Executive Board Member

    La Canada Gladiators

    - 4 years 10 months

    Health

    Head Coach for the La Canada Gladiators Jr. Gremlin (Flag) team. Coached 20 young men to a 6-3-2 record, and Sportsmanship Bowl appearance in Whittier. Prepared players to go on to tackle football and next level. Managed a staff of 3 assistant coaches, and Athletic Director. Member of the General Board for the 2017 Season, worked with Gladiator Board members and President to coordinate with league. Wrote stories for local La Canada papers describing results of the games. Member of Executive…

    Head Coach for the La Canada Gladiators Jr. Gremlin (Flag) team. Coached 20 young men to a 6-3-2 record, and Sportsmanship Bowl appearance in Whittier. Prepared players to go on to tackle football and next level. Managed a staff of 3 assistant coaches, and Athletic Director. Member of the General Board for the 2017 Season, worked with Gladiator Board members and President to coordinate with league. Wrote stories for local La Canada papers describing results of the games. Member of Executive Board for 2019 season. Assistant Coach of Gremlin (Tackle) team in 2018 season.

  • Seven Bridges Graphic

    Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    Seven Bridges

    - 2 years 11 months

    Health

    Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Seven Bridges Genomics, an amazing and innovative company using Big Data to better understand and manage data systems and pipelines about genomic health.

  • Orvium Graphic

    Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    Orvium

    - 2 years 3 months

    Science and Technology

    Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Orvium, a startup spun out of CERN whose goal it is to leverage cryptocurrency to reduce duplicity in paying for government and other funded scientific research. Orvium standardizes the economy of scientific publishing and reviewing and incentivizes participants using the ORV crypto token.

Publications

  • A.I. is coming for the past, too

    New York Times

    I'm so proud to share my first ever Guest Opinion piece for the The New York Times! This is done in
    collaboration with my colleague and good friend Jake Shapiro.

    🤖 A.I. is here and so are deepfakes and A.I. generated content.

    🔎 Watermarking has the potential to help us define what is real and what is not for the future,
    but what about the past?

    👓 The potential to fake past events with A.I. in a believable way can incite deep emotions, and
    present a clear and…

    I'm so proud to share my first ever Guest Opinion piece for the The New York Times! This is done in
    collaboration with my colleague and good friend Jake Shapiro.

    🤖 A.I. is here and so are deepfakes and A.I. generated content.

    🔎 Watermarking has the potential to help us define what is real and what is not for the future,
    but what about the past?

    👓 The potential to fake past events with A.I. in a believable way can incite deep emotions, and
    present a clear and present danger to rewrite history.

    💼 In this opinion piece we provide a call to action for the community that "A.I. is coming for the past, too"

    Other authors
    See publication

  • Machine Learning with TensorFlow 2nd edition

    Manning Publications

    Updated with new code, new projects, and new chapters, Machine Learning with TensorFlow, Second Edition gives readers a solid foundation in machine-learning concepts and the TensorFlow library. Written by NASA JPL Deputy CTO and Principal Data Scientist Chris Mattmann, all examples are accompanied by downloadable Jupyter Notebooks for a hands-on experience coding TensorFlow with Python. New and revised content expands coverage of core machine learning algorithms, and advancements in neural…

    Updated with new code, new projects, and new chapters, Machine Learning with TensorFlow, Second Edition gives readers a solid foundation in machine-learning concepts and the TensorFlow library. Written by NASA JPL Deputy CTO and Principal Data Scientist Chris Mattmann, all examples are accompanied by downloadable Jupyter Notebooks for a hands-on experience coding TensorFlow with Python. New and revised content expands coverage of core machine learning algorithms, and advancements in neural networks such as VGG-Face facial identification classifiers and deep speech classifiers.

    See publication

  • Supporting Distributed, Collaborative Review and Classification of Fast Transient Events

    IEEE Computer - Special Issue on Computing in Astronomy

    See publication

  • Cultivating a Research Agenda for Data Science

    Journal of Big Data

    C. Mattmann. Cultivating a Research Agenda for Data Science. Journal of Big Data, Vol. 1, No. 6, August, 2014. doi:10.1186/2196-1115-1-6

    See publication

  • A Vision for Data Science

    Nature

    Mattmann, Chris A. "Computing: A vision for data science." Nature 493.7433 (2013): 473-475.

    See publication

  • Understanding Open Source Software at NASA

    IEEE IT Professional - Special Theme on NASA Contributions to IT

    To provide a framework for comparing and understanding open source software at NASA, the authors describe a set of relevant dimensions and decision points that NASA and other government agencies can use in formulating an open source strategy.

    See publication

  • Tika in Action

    Manning

    Tika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book's many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing.

    Other authors
    See publication

  • Distributed, Modular Grid Software for Data Management and Exploration of Patient-Centric Healthcare IT Information

    O’Reilly Open Source Convention: Special Session on Healthcare Technology

    Our presentation discussed past and present work by engineers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) to apply their open source Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT) to health care domains. Andrew Hart of JPL gave a 30 minute talk that focuses on the technology of OODT and introduces two distinct applications of OODT to health care: the Early Detection Research Network, a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), for sharing of cancer biomarker data; and ongoing work with the…

    Our presentation discussed past and present work by engineers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) to apply their open source Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT) to health care domains. Andrew Hart of JPL gave a 30 minute talk that focuses on the technology of OODT and introduces two distinct applications of OODT to health care: the Early Detection Research Network, a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), for sharing of cancer biomarker data; and ongoing work with the Laura P. and Leland K. Whittier Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (Whittier VPICU) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to create a grid-based data management system for intensive care data. There followed a 15 Q&A session with Andrew and David Kale and Roby Khemani of CHLA.

    See publication

  • Unlocking the Grid

    Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE8), St. Louis, Missouri

    Other authors

  • A Middleware Platform for Providing Mobile and Embedded Computing Instruction to Software Engineering Students

    IEEE Transactions on Education

    Other authors
    See publication

  • ACE: Improving Search Engines via Automatic Concept Extraction

    IEEE Conference on Information Integration and Reuse

    Other authors
    See publication

  • Revisiting the Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid

    Springer

    Journal of Grid Computing

    Other authors
    See publication

  • Workshop on Software Engineering for Cloud Computing (SECLOUD11)

    IEEE

    Other authors
    See publication

Courses

  • CSCI

    599

  • CSCI

    572

  • CSCI

    578

  • DSCI

    550

  • INF

    550

Projects

  • Internationalization (i18n) Product Retrieval Service (iPReS)

    The Capstone Project is defined as being a multifaceted assignment that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience for students, typically during their final year of high school or middle school, or at the end of an academic program or learning-pathway experience.

    With our Internationalization (i18n) Product Retrieval Service (iPReS) proposal we were very fortune to have been accepted to participate in this program with a number of students from Oregon State…

    The Capstone Project is defined as being a multifaceted assignment that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience for students, typically during their final year of high school or middle school, or at the end of an academic program or learning-pathway experience.

    With our Internationalization (i18n) Product Retrieval Service (iPReS) proposal we were very fortune to have been accepted to participate in this program with a number of students from Oregon State University.

    The iPReS project aims to implement a web service and client providing i18n-type access to products and product metadata contained within NASA JPL's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center otherwise known as PO.DAAC.

    The software implements a RESTful Apache CXF web-service and client to obtain data from the PO.DAAC Web-Services API. It then translates the product metadata into a target language provided along with the initial call to the service.

    For more information on the proposal please see
    http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/capstone/capstone.cgi?project=137

    Other creators
    • Kathryn O'Brien
    See project

  • AIRS Linked Data

    Other creators

  • Monitor that plugs into ganglia

    - Present

    This project will contribute to Apache OODT Catalog and Archive Service (CAS) Resource Management component, a resource monitor plugin that reads information from Ganglia. This plugin serves following purposes
    1. Collecting resource nodes’ status data on demand
    2. Inject custom metrics upon need

    Other creators
    See project

  • Apache Lucene

    Apache Lucene - an open source search indexing library.

    Other creators
    See project

  • Apache Nutch

    Apache Nutch - an open source search engine framework and the original home for Apache Hadoop.

    Other creators
    See project

  • Apache Tika

    Creator of the Apache Tika toolkit - with Jerome Charron - and later with Jukka Zitting.

    Other creators
    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Sports Marketing and PR's People to Watch 2023 List

    Joe Favorito Sports Marketing and PR

    We Again Asked Colleagues For Who We Should Know…We Got 168 Responses, NONE of Which Were The Same…

    OK this project is a bear…but it’s a loveable one, like Winnie The Pooh or Yogi…so I decided again to take it on. The response last January was so strong…here again is last’s years which has had over 2 million views…that I thought about doing it quarterly or biannually, but time never allowed.

    Best to have fun and hope to keep the party going this year.

    First thanks to the 43…

    We Again Asked Colleagues For Who We Should Know…We Got 168 Responses, NONE of Which Were The Same…

    OK this project is a bear…but it’s a loveable one, like Winnie The Pooh or Yogi…so I decided again to take it on. The response last January was so strong…here again is last’s years which has had over 2 million views…that I thought about doing it quarterly or biannually, but time never allowed.

    Best to have fun and hope to keep the party going this year.

    First thanks to the 43 people who responded. The list is eclectic and I think pretty deep. It has a total as of today (February 17th) of 168 on it, and here is the crazy part. Other than the “obvious” or repeat ones, no one was suggested more than once. I can’t recall that ever happening but it shows we all have our eyes on other people, and people out some thought into this.

    While I asked for no repeats, there were a few people who were suggested because they are in a different place or career now, and they too are noted below. And while Sam Bankman-Fried was on the list last year, no he wasn’t mentioned this. Also the quotes are directly from those who nominated…

    Chris Mattmann- “He is literally a rocket scientist at NASA while moonlighting co-launching The Sporting Tribune with Arash Markazi. The goal is to sit at the intersection of sports and entertainment, with a hand on each one. Let’s see if Chris rockets off this new venture.”

  • LA Business Journal - 40 Thriving in their 40s List

    Los Angeles Business Journal

    So proud to announce I've been selected by the Los Angeles Business Journal to its 40 Thriving in their 40s list! Skilled business professional – be it an accountant, attorney, banker, real estate expert, health care provider, insurance professional or some other form of trusted advisor – can be one of the key ingredients for any company’s success. Working with an expert who possesses the right skill set can actually help set growth in motion for businesses in virtually any industry. Demand for…

    So proud to announce I've been selected by the Los Angeles Business Journal to its 40 Thriving in their 40s list! Skilled business professional – be it an accountant, attorney, banker, real estate expert, health care provider, insurance professional or some other form of trusted advisor – can be one of the key ingredients for any company’s success. Working with an expert who possesses the right skill set can actually help set growth in motion for businesses in virtually any industry. Demand for such expertise can be competitive. Fortunately, Los Angeles is home to a growing group of such established experts – and the numbers of young people training to become such professionals are up. In our region there is no shortage of excellent advisors, many of whom happen to be in their 40s. So proud to be on this list! 2022 is going to be an amazing year!

  • 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism

    The Pulitzer Prizes

    International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald

    For the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens. (Moved by the Board from the International Reporting category, where it was entered.)

    My specific contributions to this area described in the Panama Papers wikipedia article, I was the inventor of Apache Tika, the…

    International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald

    For the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens. (Moved by the Board from the International Reporting category, where it was entered.)

    My specific contributions to this area described in the Panama Papers wikipedia article, I was the inventor of Apache Tika, the technology that the journalists used to analyze the data and discover the connections and relationships.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers (search Tika and then click on it)

    https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/international-consortium-investigative-journalists-mcclatchy-and-miami-herald

  • JPL Bonus Award

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Outstanding Individual Contribution

  • Ticke’s Notable Scientists List

    Tickle.com

    https://twitter.com/ticckle/lists/notable-scientists

  • JPL Mariner Award

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    JPL Mariner Award, Outstanding Individual Contribution, Instrument Software and Science Data
    Systems, 2011.

  • SoftArtisans 30 Hadoop and Big Data Spelunkers Worth Following List

    Soft Artisans

    SoftArtisans 30 Hadoop and Big Data Spelunkers Worth Following List, http://bit.ly/vEUQre

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

Organizations

  • IEEE

    Senior Member

    - Present

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