Usama Fayyad

Usama Fayyad is Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI/ Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Previously he was the Chairman & Founder: Open Insights, LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA (established in Seattle, WA, 11/2008). Chief Data Officer: Group MD, Barclays, London(2013-2016). Chairman Oasis500: appointed Exec Chairman by King Abdullah II of Jordan (2010-2016). Chairman & CTO: Blue Kangaroo (2010-2013), Burlingame, CA. 2004-08: Yahoo! Chief Data Officer/EVP – 1st CDO in industry. Co-Founder/CEO: Open Insights ('08), DMX Group (acquired by Yahoo! '04), Audience Science/digiMine ('00). 1996-00: led Microsoft Research Group & data mining SQLServer products. 1989-96: NASA's JPL earning Caltech's top research excellence award & U.S. Government medal-NASA. 1991: Ph.D. U of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2 BSE's: EE & CSE; MSE: CSE & M.Sc. Math)