Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

Usama Fayyad is Inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI/ Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Chairman & Founder: Open Insights, LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA (established in Seattle, WA, 11/2008).
Chief Data Officer: Group MD, Barclays, London(2013-2016).
Chairman Oasis500: appointed Exec Chairman by King Abdullah II of Jordan (2010-2016).
Chairman & CTO: Blue Kangaroo (2010-2013), Burlingame, CA.
2004-08: Yahoo! Chief Data Officer/EVP – 1st CDO in industry.
Co-Founder/CEO: Open Insights (‘08), DMX Group (acquired by Yahoo! ‘04), Audience Science/digiMine (‘00)
1996-00: led Microsoft Research Group & data mining SQLServer products.
1989-96: NASA's JPL earning Caltech’s top research excellence award & U.S. Government medal-NASA.
1991: Ph.D. U of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2 BSE's: EE & CSE; MSE: CSE & M.Sc. Math)
Published 100+ technical articles, 30+ patents.
Editor: 2 books in data mining
Founding editor-in-chief: Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery Journal, ACM SIGKDD Explorations.
ACM SIGKDD Awards: Innovation (2007) & Service (2003).