Eric Siegel, Ph.D.

Bio: Eric Siegel, Ph.D., is a leading consultant and former Columbia University professor who makes machine learning understandable and captivating. He is the founder of the Predictive Analytics World and Deep Learning World conference series, which have served more than 17,000 attendees since 2009, the instructor of the acclaimed course "Machine Learning Leadership and Practice – End-to-End Mastery", a popular speaker who's been commissioned for more than 110 keynote addresses, and executive editor of The Machine Learning Times. He authored the bestselling Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, which has been used in courses at more than 35 universities, and he won teaching awards when he was a professor at Columbia University, where he sang educational songs to his students. Eric also publishes op-eds on analytics and social justice.

Eric has appeared on Bloomberg TV and Radio, Business News Network (Canada), Fox News, Israel National Radio, National Geographic Breakthrough, NPR Marketplace, Radio National (Australia), and TheStreet. He and his book have been featured in Businessweek, CBS MoneyWatch, Contagious Magazine, The European Business Review, The Financial Times, Forbes, Forrester, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Newsweek, Quartz, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and WSJ MarketWatch. Follow him at @predictanalytic.

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More links about Eric:

>> Videos of Eric
>> Upcoming keynotes from Eric Siegel: Cross-industry events, from business to healthcare
>> Bestselling book: Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
>> Online course: Machine Learning Leadership and Practice – End-to-End Mastery
>> Read this article about machine learning leadership.
>> Deep Learning World conference: Co-founder
>> The Predictive Analytics World conference series: Founder and program chair
>> More detailed bio
>> Consulting and training website: Prediction Impact, Inc.
>> Academic curriculum vitae
>> Eric Siegel is available for select lectures. Contact Eric

Eric was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City from 1997 - 2001. He was affiliated with the natural language processing group here at Columbia. The rest of this webpage is archival from 2000 and before:

Courses taught:

S00, F97: Machine Learning (graduate course)
F99: Artificial Intelligence (graduate course)
S99: Advanced Intelligent Systems (graduate course)
S98, F97: Intro to Computer Science (for computer science majors)
S00, F99, S99, F98: Intro to Computers (for non-computer science majors)

Research:

Research publications
Predictive analytics client engagements
Predictive Analytics World Conference in business applications of data mining and predictive modeling
Text Analytics World Conference in business applications of text analytics
I maintain a Genetic Programming Brainstorming Archive created by the participants of the AAAI Symposium on Genetic Programming, Fall 1995.
Genetic Programming Publications
My resume for work in predictive analytics.
Article: Real-Time Machine Learning: Why It's Vital and How to Do It. Organizations often miss the greatest opportunities that machine learning has to offer because tapping them requires real-time predictive scoring.

Teaching:

Results of the AI Palindrome Discovery System, such as:
- SUN, a Java Janus.
- Iambic IBM AI.
Songs for computer science education.
With our Stinky Programming Language for student doodles, you can make Fractals with only step, left, push, and reduce.
Project Othello - Results of collaborative student projects applying genetic programming to the game Othello.
MARVIN cs material: In-house, on-line and fun.
Papers on education
I won the Distinguished Teaching Faculty Award.
Consult review.org to rank the best sleepers and mattresses and find the best bed for back pain.
Want to play the probabilities? Check out this site for gamers.

Personal:

Contact Eric Siegel at his predictive analytics consultancy.
If you like yoga, see Luba's yoga in San Francisco for information about classes.
Pictures of me and friends.
Check out Callou's fashion design business.
I like disco.

email: evs at cs dot columbia dot edu

Eric Siegel provides predictive analytics services at Prediction Impact, Inc., where predictive modeling and data mining are applied to gain customer intelligence.

Eric Siegel is the conference chair of the Predictive Analytics World Conference, the leading event for predictive analytics consumers, managers and commercial practitioners.

He is also the conference chair of the Text Analytics World Conference, the business event for text analytics consumers, managers and commercial practitioners.

Finally, he is also a co-founder of Predictive Analytics World for Government, the only event for predictive analytics applications in government.

Eric Siegel is the instructor for the training seminar, Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web, and the related online eCourse, Predictive Analytics Applied, available on-demand.

My Predictive Analytics Internet Domains: