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Foster provost is bigger really better predictive analytics with fine grained behavior data
Foster Provost is Professor of Data Science and Information Systems and Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow at New York University's Stern School of Business. Professor Provost has a Bachelor of Science from Duquesne University in physics and mathematics and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Professor Provost is known for his work on evaluating machine learning algorithms using ROC analysis, for his work on social network data analysis, for his work on combining humans and machine learning, and for his work on machine learning for targeted marketing, online advertising, and activity monitoring.
He has won awards for his work, including:
Professor Provost was on the founding teams for five startups, including Dstillery, Integral Ad Science (IAS), Everyscreen Media, Predicube, and Detectica.
Professor Provost is coauthor (with Tom Fawcett) of the book, _Data Science for Business_, which often tops Amazon's best-seller lists in data mining and data modeling.
Professor Provost is a Scientific Advisor for the ISI Foundation (which awards the Lagrange Prize), served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Machine Learning for 6+ years. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) and the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD/DAMI). He was elected as a founding board member of the International Machine Learning Society.