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Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

Chief Data Officer and Group Managing Director, Barclays London, UK <br> Chairman, Oasis500, Amman, Jordan

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Brief Bio

  • Usama Fayyad is Chief Data Officer/Group MD - Barclays, London.
  • Chairman Oasis500: appointed Exec Chairman by King Abdullah II of Jordan (2010).
  • 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

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

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Keynote by Dr. Usama Fayyad at 8.25AM PST on February 9, 2021 at Second AI and Data Science Workshop for Earth and Space Sciences,

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Globe Analytics Forum 2020

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

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

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Keynote Speaker at Duke Datathon, November 2-3, 2019 | West Campus, Duke University

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Blog

IADSS’ definition of Data Science: “Solving problems by inference from data.”

January 7, 2020 Usama 0

The definition of data science: “Solving problems by inference from data”. What do we mean by that? Any suggestions? Comment below or get in

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#smartcon2018: October 2, 2018

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Applied Data Science Panel at KDD 2018 conference

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Recent News

Globe Analytics Forum 2020

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10:15 AM to 11:00 AM Open Insights Keynote (Dr. Usama Fayyad)11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Real-life Analytics: Globe Success Story SharingJoin Zoom link at

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Data Science Congress 2020 virtual conference, June 6-7, 2020

April 27, 2020 Usama 0
Analytics and Data Science Standardization and Assessment Framework

Analytics and Data Science Standardization and Assessment Framework

April 27, 2020 Usama 0

Prosper with Purpose Webinar Series, SESSION 2: “Disruption, Digitization, and Data”

April 21, 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

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