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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