George B. Davis
Co-Founder and CEO
George received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where his doctoral research focused on applications of machine learning to social and economic data. Most recently serving as Knewton's Head of Adaptive Learning, George built and oversaw the teams responsible for all internal and external data science products, including domain modeling, recommendations, and analytics. Prior to joining Knewton in 2011, George was a Vice President at trading firm Tricadia Capital and founding partner of Hg Analytics, a financial management firm that profitably executed over $3B in trades from 2008–2010. In the years prior, his academic and consulting engagements resulted in production deployments of scientific computing systems in defense, intelligence, telecommunications, and bioinformatics applications.
