Usama Fayyad
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| Residence | London, England and San Francisco Bay Area |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Computer Science Electrical Engineering |
| Institutions | NASA JPL California Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Southern California, UTS, HKPU and Monash University; and Adviser to Data Science Institute of Imperial College in London. |
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Usama M. Fayyad (born July, 1965) is an American data scientist and co-founder of KDD conferences and ACM SIGKDD association for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,. He is a speaker on Business Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, and Big Data. He recently left his role as the Chief Data Officer at Barclays Bank.
Fayyad was born to a Jordanian family in Carthage, Tunisia in July, 1965. and lived his early childhood in Tunisia and many countries in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe. He graduated high school in Amman, Jordan from the National Orthodox School with GCE O-Levels. He spent most of his life in the U.S. having received his undergraduate and graduate education in Ann Arbor, MI at the University of Michigan
Fayyad holds BSE's in both electrical and computer engineering (1984); MSE in computer science and engineering (1986); and M.Sc. in mathematics (1989). He also earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991). Fayyad has published over 100 technical articles in the fields of data mining, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and databases. He holds over 30 patents and is a Fellow of both the AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). Fayyad has edited two influential books on data mining and he launched and served as editor-in-chief of both the primary scientific journal in the field of data mining (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) and the primary newsletter in the technical community published by the ACM: SIGKDD Explorations. He continues to be active in the academic community, serving at Chairman of ACM’s SIGKDD Executive Committee which runs the world’s premiere data science, big data, and data mining conferences: the KDD international annual conferences. Fayyad is a recipient of the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (2007) and Service Award (2003) – the only person to ever receive both awards.
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