Foster Provost
Foster Provost is an American computer scientist, information systems researcher, and Professor of Data Science and Information Systems and Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is also the Director for the Data Science and AI Initiative at Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation. Professor Provost has a Bachelor of Science from Duquesne University in physics and mathematics and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Provost is known for his work on evaluating machine learning algorithms using ROC analysis, for his work on social network data analysis, for his work on combining humans and machine learning, and for his work on machine learning for targeted marketing, online advertising, and activity monitoring. He has won awards for his work, including: The 2020 ACM SIGKDD Test of Time Award The 2017 European Research Paper of the Year (AIS & CIONET). The best paper in the journal Information Systems Research in 2015. The 2009 INFORMS Design Science award for social network-based marketing, IBM Faculty Awards for outstanding research in data mining and machine learning, A President’s Award from NYNEX Science and Technology Best Paper Awards