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Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

Chairman & Founder, Open Insights and Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI @ Northeastern University. First Chief Data Officer at Yahoo!. Former Global CDO, Barclays Bank. Founding Exec Chairman @ Oasis500

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Brief Bio

  • Usama Fayyad is 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).
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Recent Talks

DIGITAL WITHOUT DATA LEADS TO BLINDNESS: SOLVING THE LAST MILE IN DELIVERING VALUE FROM DATA. Invited speaker at the MIT CDOIQ SYMPOSIUM on July 22, 2021

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DIGITAL WITHOUT DATA LEADS TO BLINDNESS: SOLVING THE LAST MILE IN DELIVERING VALUE FROM DATA SESSION 15A at the MIT CDOIQ SYMPOSIUM on July

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AI Reality versus Hype in Industry: No Data – No Intelligence

February 7, 2021 Usama 0

Globe Analytics Forum 2020

December 3, 2020 Usama 0
Prosper With Purpose Webinar Series, SESSION 2: “Disruption, Digitization, And Data”

Prosper With Purpose Webinar Series, SESSION 2: “Disruption, Digitization, And Data”

April 22, 2020 Usama 0

Events To Follow

Keynote at Corinium event San Francisco – analytics CDAO, June 14, 2022

May 12, 2022 Usama 0

CHIEF DATA & ANALYTICS OFFICERS SPRING THE PREMIER IN-PERSON GATHERING FOR DATA & ANALYTICS LEADERS ON THE WEST COAST June 14 – 15, 2022

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Masterclass: A Practical Guide to AI – Avoiding the Hype, Putting the Algorithms to Work, webinar, Jul 28, 2021 09:00 AM in Pacific Time

July 25, 2021 Usama 0

DIGITAL WITHOUT DATA LEADS TO BLINDNESS: SOLVING THE LAST MILE IN DELIVERING VALUE FROM DATA. Invited speaker at the MIT CDOIQ SYMPOSIUM on July 22, 2021

July 22, 2021 Usama 0

Globe Analytics Forum 2020

December 3, 2020 Usama 0

Videos

  • Optimiza announce a strategic partnership with Open Insights

    Optimiza announce a strategic partnership with Open Insights

  • I-COM Global Summit 2018: Navigating Data in Digital Transformation

    I-COM Global Summit 2018: Navigating Data in Digital Transformation

  • Strata Proposal

    Strata Proposal

  • Challenges with Big Data: Dr. Usama Fayyad of Open Insights

    Challenges with Big Data: Dr. Usama Fayyad of Open Insights

  • 4th infoDev Global Forum // Technology Financing: Challenges & Opportunities Int’l Panel

    4th infoDev Global Forum // Technology Financing: Challenges & Opportunities Int’l Panel

  • Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer at Barclays – Part2

    Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer at Barclays – Part2

  • KDD 2016 Promotional Video – Usama Fayyad

    KDD 2016 Promotional Video – Usama Fayyad

  • Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer at Barclays – Part 1

    Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer at Barclays – Part 1

  • Lecture, EMCFE

    Lecture, EMCFE

  • Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur Usama Fayyad From Quasars To Digital Data

    Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur Usama Fayyad From Quasars To Digital Data

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Photos

  • Open Insights work day at Arab Bank/Jordan on June 16, 2019

    Open Insights work day at Arab Bank/Jordan on June 16, 2019

  • Usama Fayyad at ODSC 2019

    Usama Fayyad at ODSC 2019

  • Usama Fayyad with Eric Maskin March 10, 2019

    Usama Fayyad with Eric Maskin March 10, 2019

  • Usama Fayyad, Panel Chair at #KDD2018

    Usama Fayyad, Panel Chair at #KDD2018

  • With Fred Smith, Chairman & CEO of FedEx

    With Fred Smith, Chairman & CEO of FedEx

  • Visited my friend Rao Mulpuri @viewglass

    Visited my friend Rao Mulpuri @viewglass

  • Data Science Congress (DSC)

    Data Science Congress (DSC)

  • 9th Int’l Banking + Finance. Usama Fayyad presents age of analytics

    9th Int’l Banking + Finance. Usama Fayyad presents age of analytics

  • KDD 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA

    KDD 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA

  • Featured Photos

    Featured Photos

  • Usama Fayyad in Johannesburg, SA on July 4, 2016

    Usama Fayyad in Johannesburg, SA on July 4, 2016

  • European Trading Architecture Summit 2015

    European Trading Architecture Summit 2015

  • World leading Chief Data Officer Dr Usama Fayyad joins UTS:AAi as an international board member

    World leading Chief Data Officer Dr Usama Fayyad joins UTS:AAi as an international board member

  • Usama Fayyad with EHS staff, March 2013

    Usama Fayyad with EHS staff, March 2013

  • Dr. Usama Fayyad making an announcement abt “MakeIT” the tech mentorship network

    Dr. Usama Fayyad making an announcement abt “MakeIT” the tech mentorship network

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