Chris Mattmann is the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA JPL. He is also JPL's first Principal Scientist in the area of Data Science. He has over 19 years of experience at JPL and has conceived, realized, and delivered the architecture for the next generation of reusable science data processing systems for NASA's space and earth science missions.

He contributes to open source and was a former Director at the Apache Software Foundation (2013-18).

Finally, he is the Director of the Information Retrieval & Data Science (IRDS) group at USC and Adjunct Associate Professor.