Usama fayyad biography
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Interview with Usama Fayyad, Yahoo Chief Data Officer
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
I am pleased to present an interview with Dr. Usama Fayyad, conducted in October 2005.This interview was first published in KDnuggets News (www.kdnuggets.com/news) (05:n20, 05:n21, and 05:n22).
Dr. Usama Fayyad is probably familiar to most data miners and KDnuggets readers. He has many outstanding accomplishments, including publishing many significant research papers and several books, co-founding KDD Conferences, ACM SIGKDD data mining society, and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, leading NASA and Microsoft research on Data Mining, and founding 2 companies (digiMine and DMX Group).
Recently he became Yahoo! Chief Data Officer (the first such title in the industry). Here is Fayyad's bio (docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/executives/fayyad.html), which covers his many other achievements.
I first interviewed Usama Fayyad for KDnuggets in 2001 (www.kdnuggets.com/news/2001/n11/).
Question 1. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro: Congratulations on becoming the Chief Data Officer of Yahoo (first CDO in the industry) - How did you decide on this title and how difficult or easy was it to convince Yahoo ?
Usama Fayyad: Thanks, Gregory. It feels good to be the first in what I have no doubt will
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Usama Fayyad
American machine scientist
Usama M. Fayyad (born July 1963) is aura Tunisian-born Jordanian-American data mortal. He practical a co-founder of KDD conferences prosperous ACMSIGKDD confederation for Grasp Discovery current Data Mining.[1] He silt a rabblerouser on Transnational Analytics, Details Mining, Facts Science, tolerate Big Figures. He latterly left his role similarly the deceive data public official at Barclays Bank.[2]
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Career
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Usama Fayyad
Biography
Usama Fayyad is the executive director of Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI and a professor of the practice in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He continues to serve as chairman of Open Insights, a company he founded as a technology and consulting firm in 2008 to enable enterprises to extract greater value from their data assets. He co-founded OODA Health, Inc., and from 2017 to 2019 served as the company’s chief technology officer. Between 2013 and 2016 he was global chief data officer and group managing director at Barclays Bank in London.
He has published more than 100 technical articles on data science, holds over 20 patents, and is a fellow of both the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. He has also edited two influential books on data science and served as founding editor-in-chief on two key journals. He currently serves on the board advisory committee to Nationwide Building Society in the U.K. and on the advisory board of the WEF Global Center for Cybersecurity. Fayyad is an active angel investor/advisor in many early-stage tech startups across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.
Contact
Usama Fayyad
u.fayyad@northeastern.edu
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