The winners of the 2019 Data Science Awards were announced at the AI & Big Data Expo North America in Santa Clara on 13 November 2019. The awards were launched in London in April and recognise best practice, innovation and excellence in data science and artificial intelligence.

The Data Science Foundation made awards in six categories, congratulations to the winners:

Data Scientist of the Year

Andrew McMahon

UK

For his work developing and implementing a Data Excellence Strategy at Aggreko, the leading global provider of modular, mobile power units

AI Innovation of the Year

Squirrel AI Learning

China

For its use of AI in creating an adaptive learning engine. The system creates a personalised learning experience and overcomes problems related to a lack of educational resources

Data Science in Healthcare

Bigfinite

USA

For creating a GxP compliant data science platform to improve manufacturing processes in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries

Data Science Technology

John Snow Labs

USA

For Spark NLP an open source text processing library that provides production-grade versions of the latest research in natural language processing

Data Science Writer of the Year

Dr Balakrishnan Subramanian

India

For his dedication to publishing interesting and informative work on the Data Science Foundation platform

Outstanding Contribution to Data Science

Doug Cutting

USA

Software designer, creator of Hadoop and Chief Architect at Cloudera. Doug has had a huge impact on data science, many of us have either used products he has created or have used products based on his work

The International Data Science Awards 2020 will be launched at the AI & Big Data Expo London in March 2020