 He also serves as Academic Director of Data-Pop Alliance, a joint project on big data and human development co-created with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the UK's Overseas Development Institute, and is co-founder of Imagination In Action which brings world-changing inventors together with leaders of governments and companies.In 2011 Tim O’Reilly named him one of the world's seven most powerful data scientists along with Larry Page, then CEO of Google and the CTO of the Department of Health and Human Services.Pentland's research focuses on social physics, big data, and privacy.