Ciro Donalek

Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder at Virtualitics, Inc.

Pasadena, California, United States

About Ciro Donalek

Ciro Donalek is Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder at Virtualitics, Inc. Location: Pasadena, California, United States.

Ciro Donalek is a data scientist and innovator. As a Computational Scientist at Caltech he has successfully applied Machine Learning techniques to many different scientific fields and co-authored over 100 publications featured on Nature, Neural Networks, IEEE Big Data, Bioinformatics and many other major journals. He authored 23 U.S. Patents related to advanced data analytics and visualization. Dr. Donalek has also pioneered the use of Mixed Reality for immersive data visualization, exploration, and machine learning. Dr. Donalek has been awarded multiple research fellowships, served as a reviewer for numerous major scientific journals and organization, and has given several invited talks on Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, and Data Visualization. He has a Minor Planet named after him in recognition of his work in the automatic classification of celestial bodies. He was part of the group that built the Big Picture, the single largest real astronomical image in the world currently installed at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, that draws millions of visitors per year. Dr. Donalek was recently named to CTO Boardroom Media’s World’s Top Chief Technology Officers as co-founder and CTO of Virtualitics, where he continues his innovative work in advanced analytics. Dr. Donalek holds a Ph.D. in Computational Science and an MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is married with two children.

Skills

  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Neural Networks

Additional experience

  • Board Member

    Virtualitics, Inc.

    Started August 2016

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • Master of Science (MSc), Università degli Studi di Salerno