Jeremy Howard (born 13 November 1973) is an Australian data scientist and entrepreneur.
He is a founding researcher at fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to make Deep Learning more accessible.
Previously, he was the CEO and Founder at Enlitic, an advanced machine learning company in San Francisco, California.
Prior to it, Howard was the President and Chief Scientist at Kaggle, a community and competition platform of over 200,000 data scientists.
Howard is the youngest faculty member at Singularity University, where he teaches data science.
He is also a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, and spoke at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 on "Jobs For The Machines." Howard advised Khosla Ventures as their Data Strategist, identifying the biggest opportunities for investing in data-driven startups and mentoring their portfolio companies to build data-driven businesses.
Howard was the founding CEO of two successful Australian startups, FastMail and Optimal Decisions Group.
Before that, he spent eight years in management consulting, at McKinsey & Company and AT Kearney.