Data mining people: Usama Fayyad
If you're reading this blog regularly, you now trends in my posts. Out of the news related to data mining, two headings are recurrent: the small book review (my comments on a book somehow related to data mining) and the data mining application (a summary of a research paper about data mining). Today, I introduce a new one: data mining people. The idea is to briefly resume biography of someone important in the data mining field.
In this post, I begin with Usama Fayyad. He is Yahoo!'s chief data officer and senior vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Before joining Yahoo!, Fayyad co-founded and directed the DMX Group, a data mining consulting company.
He also co-founded and served as CEO of digiMine Inc., a data mining company. He worked as well with Microsoft and the NASA.
Here is a short biography of his studies:
- BSE in both electrical and computer engineering (1984)
- MSE in computer science and engineering (1986)
- M.Sc. in mathematics (1989)
- Ph.D. in engineering (1991)
2 comments:
Nice idea, Sandro.
There are a lot of bright folks making great contributions to data mining out there. It's good to see someone giving them some credit.
Cheers
Thanks Bill,
I have some names in mind for the following weeks. However, any of your suggestions are warmly welcomed!
Regards.
Sandro.
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