Lyle H. Ungar - biography
Dr. Lyle H. Ungar is an Associate
Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of
Pennsylvania.
He received a B.S. from Stanford University and a
Dr. Ungar directed Penn's Executive Masters of Technology
Management (EMTM) Program for a decade, and is currently Associate
Director of the Penn Center for BioInformatics (PCBI). Dr. Ungar has
published over 150 articles and holds eleven patents. His current
research focuses on developing scalable machine learning methods for
data mining and text mining.
While a student at Sloan, Dr. Ungar worked as a strategic business
analyst at the Boston Consulting Group. Since coming to Penn in 1984,
he has consulted for companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500
companies on strategic use of information technology in areas
including data mining, information retrieval, online auction design,
expert systems, and e-commerce.
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