About the Conference Chair
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The president of Prediction
Impact, Inc.,
Eric Siegel is an expert in predictive analytics and data mining and a former computer science professor at Columbia
University, where he won the engineering school's award for teaching, including graduate-level courses in
machine learning and intelligent systems - the academic terms for
predictive analytics. After Columbia, Dr. Siegel co-founded two
software companies for customer profiling and data mining, and then
started Prediction Impact in 2003, providing predictive analytics
services and training to mid-tier through Fortune 100 companies.
Dr. Siegel is the instructor of the acclaimed training program, Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web, and the online version, Predictive Analytics Applied. He has published over 20 papers and articles in data mining research and computer science education, has served on 10 conference program committees, has chaired a AAAI Symposium held at MIT, and is the founding chair of Predictive Analytics World. |
