About Luke
Bio
Luke Barrington is a startup founder, computer hacker and product leader. He earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego with a thesis that pioneered the use of online crowdsourcing to train smarter machine learning algorithms and understand rock & roll. Luke was a founder of Tomnod (acquired by DigitalGlobe in 2013), an online crowdsourcing community where millions of contributors explore satellite images to find interesting and important information. He is currently Head of Product at DigitalGlobe where he transforms petabytes of pixels into insight about our changing planet. Luke is a public speaker, technology lover and funk guitarist, sometimes all at the same time.