Foster Provost is an American computer scientist, information systems researcher, and Professor of Data Science and

Information Systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...

and Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship at

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's Stern School of Business. He is also the Director for the Data Science and AI Initiative at Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation. Professor Provost has a

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from

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in physics and mathematics and a

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and

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in computer science from the

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. Professor Provost is known for his work on evaluating

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algorithms using ROC analysis, for his work on social network data analysis, for his work on combining humans and machine learning, and for his work on machine learning for targeted marketing, online advertising, and activity monitoring. He has won awards for his work, including: * The 2020 ACM SIGKDD Test of Time Award *The 2017 European Research Paper of the Year (AIS & CIONET). * The best paper in the journal ''Information Systems Research'' in 2015. * The 2009 INFORMS Design Science award for social network-based marketing, * IBM Faculty Awards for outstanding research in data mining and machine learning, * A President’s Award from NYNEX Science and Technology * Best Paper Awards from the ACM SIGKDD conference in 1997, 2008, and 2012, and * Awards in SIGKDD’s annual KDDCUP data mining competition. Professor Provost was on the founding teams for five startups, including Dstillery, Integral Ad Science (IAS), Everyscreen Media, Predicube, and Detectica. Professor Provost is coauthor (with Tom Fawcett) of the book, ''Data Science for Business'', which often tops Amazon's best-seller lists in data mining and data modeling. Professor Provost is a Scientific Advisor for the ISI Foundation (which awards the Lagrange Prize), served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal

Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

for 6+ years. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) and the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD/DAMI). He was elected as a founding board member of the International Machine Learning Society.

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