Jeff Schneider
Research Professor, Robotics Institute
Research Professor, Robotics Institute
Schneider was the co-founder and CEO of Schenley Park Research, Inc. (SPR), a company dedicated to bringing new machine learning algorithms to industry. Later, he developed a new machine-learning based CNS drug discovery system and spent a two-year sabbatical as the Chief Informatics Officer of Psychogenics, Inc. to commercialize the system. During his most recent sabbatical he helped launch Uber's self driving car program in Pittsburgh where he built autonomy, data science, and machine learning teams.
Schneider does consulting on a regular basis. Through his work at CMU and his commercial and consulting efforts, he has worked with several dozen companies and government agencies including ten Fortune 500 companies, and many international groups around the world.
1994 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester
1990 M.S., Computer Science, Michigan State University
1988 B.S., Computer Science, Michigan State University