Kevin Ross

Kevin Ross is CEO of Precision Driven Health, an award-winning research partnership applying data science to enable precision health. PDH establishes collaborations between clinicians, data scientists and technology companies, applying the latest advances in data analytics to generate health benefits through software tools. He is also Director of Research for Orion Health, a New Zealand-owned global healthcare platform managing over 100 million patients worldwide. Kevin is passionate about data science and analytics, especially the safe use of data and machine learning technology for good. He is founder and chair of the New Zealand Data Science & Analytics Forum, a community of over 2,500 professionals. He was previously Chief Scientist of Optimisation Modelling at Fonterra, Associate Professor of Technology and Information Management at the University of California Santa Cruz, and a Principal Consultant for PA Consulting Group. Kevin has worked for NASA, Bell Labs, Eli Lilly and London Councils, and is on the board of Health Informatics New Zealand. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and a BSc(Hons) from the University of Canterbury.