Jeff Jonas is the founder and CEO of Senzing, and a world-renowned data scientist. For more than 30 years, he has pioneered Entity Resolution technology, helping governments and companies solve their hardest big data problems.
He sold his last company to IBM in 2005, where he became an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist. There, he led development of a purpose-built AI for entity resolution, a sixth-generation engine, G2 — used to, among other projects, modernize U.S. voter registration and secure Singapore’s Malacca Strait. In 2016, Jonas launched Senzing, built on a one-of-a-kind IBM spinout of the G2 technology and team. National Geographic once called him the “Wizard of Big Data.”
Fun fact: in the ’90s, he and his team built software that helped bust the MIT card-counting team in Vegas.
Jonas sold his last company to IBM in 2005. Prior to founding Senzing, Jonas served as an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing at IBM. He led a team focused on creating next-generation AI for Entity Resolution technology, code-named G2. At IBM G2 was deployed in many innovative ways, including modernizing U.S. voter registration through a joint effort with Pew Charitable Trust and helping the Singaporean government build a maritime domain awareness system to better protect the Malacca Strait. In 2016, Jonas founded Senzing, based on a one-of-a-kind IBM spinout of the G2 technology and team.
He regularly meets with government leaders, industry executives and think tanks around the globe about innovation, national security and privacy. Jonas serves on the boards of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the advisory board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Jonas formerly served on the board of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), was a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Distinguished Engineer of Information Systems (adjunct) at Singapore Management University (SMU).
Jonas was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Science in 2015 from Claremont Graduate University and is the author or co-author of 14 patents. His work has been featured in documentaries airing on networks such as the Discovery Channel, and he has been the subject of prominent chapters in books such as No Place to Hide, Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World, The Numerati and The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State.
