Sean Murphy

Sean serves as the Chief Data Scientist for PingThings, an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) startup bringing advanced data science and machine learning to the nation's electric grid. He is a founder and board member of Data Community DC, a 10,000-member community of data practitioners, and leads the 1,500+ member Data Innovation DC MeetUp that focuses on the use of data for value creation.

He completed his graduate work in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and stayed on as a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for over a decade where he focused on machine learning, anomaly detection, image analysis, and high performance and cloud-based computing. He graduated from the DC inaugural class of the Founder Institute, completed Hacker School in New York City, and serves as a judge and mentor for Venture for America.