Evan Sparks

Evan Sparks is Chief Product Officer for Artificial Intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to its acquisition by HPE, Evan was co-founder and CEO of Determined AI. At Determined and HPE, his group builds software that makes machine learning engineers and data scientists fantastically more productive. While earning his PhD in Computer Science in Berkeley’s AMPLab, he contributed to the design and implementation of much of the large-scale machine learning ecosystem around Apache Spark, including MLlib and KeystoneML.

Prior to Berkeley, Evan worked in quantitative finance and web intelligence. He also holds an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.