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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