[Legacy Report] IEEECS: From Data to Decisions: Learnings from Real World Data Mining

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The last few decades have seen a massive growth in the volume,
diversity, quality, and complexity of data collected in a variety of
domains such as sciences, medicine, web, retail, finance, multi-media,
etc. This data – if managed, mined, and modeled effectively – can be
used to improve the quality of life for people and increase the
productivity, efficiency, and profitability of businesses around the
globe. Increasingly businesses are moving from basic business
intelligence tools towards using more advanced machine learning and
data mining algorithms to glean insights, make predictions, and
ultimately derive decisions from their data, the most valuable asset
in today’s information economy.

Dr. Shailesh Kumar is a Member of Technical Staff at Google,
Hyderabad. Prior to joining Google, he has worked as a Principal Dev.
Manager at Microsoft (Bing) Hyderabad, Sr. Scientist at Yahoo! Labs
Bangalore, and Principal Scientist at Fair Isaac Research in San
Diego, California. Dr. Kumar has over fifteen years of experience in
applying and innovating machine learning, statistical pattern
recognition, and data mining algorithms to hard prediction problems in
a wide variety of domains including information retrieval, web
analytics, text mining, computer vision, retail data mining, risk and
fraud analytics, and bioinformatics. He has published over 20
conference papers, journal papers, and book chapters and holds over a
dozen patents in these areas. He has also served on the program
committees and review committees of several international conferences
and journals. Dr. Kumar received his PhD in Electrical and Computer
Engineering in Dec. 2000 (with a specialization in statistical pattern
recognition and data mining) and Masters in Computer Science in May
1997 (with a specialization in artificial intelligence and machine
learning), both from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He
received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 1995.

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