Dr. Usama Fayyad,
Chief Data Officer & Executive VP, Research and Strategic Data Solutions Yahoo!
Fayyad is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data policies and systems, prioritizing data investments, and managing the company's data processing infrastructure and analysis. The analysis and management of data within Fayyad's group enables Yahoo! to ensure customer satisfaction and develop innovative products and services that are essential to consumers' lives. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Fayyad co-founded and led the DMX Group, a data mining and data strategy consulting company.
In early 2000, he co-founded and served as CEO of digiMine Inc. (now Revenue Science, Inc.), a data analysis and data mining company that built, operated, and hosted data warehouses and analytics for some of the world's largest enterprises in online publishing, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, and financial services. Fayyad earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan (1991), and also holds B.S.E.'s in both electrical and computer engineering (1984); an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering (1986); and an M.Sc. in mathematics (1989). He has published over 100 technical articles on the field of data mining, edited two influential books on the subject, and launched the primary scientific journal in the field while serving as editor-in-chief. Fayyad also launched and edited the primary newsletter in the technical community, and regularly delivers addresses and keynotes at government, industry, and academic conferences around the world.