work_institution birth_place fields birth_date residence article_title name alma_mater
university of chicago edgeflip karachi , pakistan computer science , machine learning , data science 1977 chicago , il , usa rayid ghani
 rayid ghani university , pa of the south , tn carnegie mellon university
rayid ghani

rayid ghani is the director of the center for data science and public policy , chief data scientist at the urban center on computation and data , research director at the computation institute -lrb- a joint institute of argonne national laboratory and the university of chicago -rrb- , and a senior fellow at the harris school of public policy at the university of chicago .
he is also the co-founder of edgeflip , an analytics startup that grew out of the obama 2012 campaign , focused on social media products for non-profits , advocacy groups , and charities .
ghani is currently in charge of the eric & wendy schmidt data science for social good summer fellowship , at the university of chicago .
