Usama Fayyad

Usama Fayyad , born in 1963, is a famous scientist and contractor in the field of the technologies the information.

Course

Universally known expert in excavations of data, it continues higher learning with the Université of Michigan and takes down his diploma of Doctorat in 1991. He directs thereafter the group Machine Learning Systems in the famous laboratory JPL of NASA. Its work within this laboratory is worth to him the highest distinction decreed by JPL/Calthech as well as a medal of the US government to crown the fruit of its years of research to NASA.

It occupies thereafter a position of responsibility within Microsoft by supervising the development of algorithms of excavations of data being used for products such as Microsoft SQL Server. It joined in 2004 the executive team of Yahoo! as a vice-president and a person in charge of the data management within this firm (the first scientist to be seen allotted this station). It also founds DMXGROUP then the start-up DigiMine (in company of Nick Besbeas and Bassel Ojjeh), repurchased by Revenue Science, both specialized in the extraction of knowledge starting from a great mass of data and the industrial use of this knowledge.

It has with its credit more than one hundred of scientific publications in the field of the excavations of data and extraction of knowledge.

Distinction

Fellow (American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

External bonds

Interview of Fayyad in September 2003 (The Believer)
Portrait on the site of DMXGROUP
Portrait on the site of Yahoo!

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