Seminar on "Taming the Big Data Chaos in The Enterprise: Challenges and Case Studies in Applied Data Science"

Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. is CEO of Open Insights in USA. Until recently he was Group Chief Data Officer at Barclays in London where his global responsibilities included the Data Strategy, Data Governance, performance and management of operational and analytical data systems, as well as delivering value by using Big Data and analytics to create growth opportunities and cost savings for the bank. Usama was previously leading OASIS-500, a tech startup investment fund, following his appointment as Executive Chairman in 2010 by King Abdullah II of Jordan.  He was also Chairman, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Blue Kangaroo Corp, a mobile search engine service for offers based in Silicon Valley. In 2008, Usama founded Open Insights, a US-based data strategy, technology and consulting firm that helps enterprises deploy data-driven solutions that effectively and dramatically grow revenue and competitive advantage. Prior to this, he served as Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President where he was responsible for Yahoo!'s global data strategy, architecting its data policies and systems, and managing its data analytics and data processing infrastructure. The data teams he built at Yahoo! collected, managed, and processed over 25 terabytes of data per day, and drove a major part of ad targeting revenue and data insights businesses globally. He was the first person in the world to hold the CDO title. In 2003 Usama co-founded and led the DMX Group, a data mining and data strategy consulting and technology company specialising in Big Data Analytics for Fortune 500 clients. DMX Group was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004. In 2000 Usama left his leadership position at Microsoft to co-found and serve as Chairman and CEO Audience Science (digiMine). At Microsoft he spent 5 years leading the data mining and exploration group at Microsoft Research and also headed the data mining products group for Microsoft’s server division. From 1989 to 1996 Usama held a leadership role at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where his work garnered him the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in Research from Caltech, as well as a U.S. Government medal from NASA. Usama has published over 100 technical articles on data mining, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and databases. He holds over 30 patents, is a Fellow of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. He has edited two influential books on data mining and served as editor-in-chief on two key industry journals. Usama earned his Ph.D. in engineering in AI/Machine Learning from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds two BSE’s in Engineering, MSE Computer Engineering and M.Sc. in Mathematics. He is active in the academic community with several adjunct professor posts and is the only person to receive both the ACM’s SIGKDD Innovation Award (2007) and Service Award (2003).