Lyle H. Ungar - biography
Dr. Lyle H. Ungar is an Associate
Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of
Pennsylvania. He holds secondary appointments in the Electrical and
Systems Engineering (ESE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(CBE) Departments, at Wharton in the Operations and Information
Management (OPIM) Department, and in the Genomics and Computational
Biology (GCB) graduate group in the School of Medicine. He no longer
runs Penn's Executive Masters of Technology Management (EMTM) Program;
for variety he is serving as Associate Director of the Penn Center for
BioInformatics (PCBI)
Dr. Ungar received a B.S. from Stanford University in 1979 and a
Ph.D., from M.I.T. in 1984. He has received the Presidential Young
Investigator (PYI) award from the National Science Foundation, has
published over 100 professional articles, and is co-inventor on eight patents.
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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