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Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro Experience Education Presentations & Tutorials Recent Publications Contact: gregory at kdnuggets.com, with a brief description of the issues. Tel: +1-617-264-9914 (Boston, MA, USA)

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D., is widely recognized as one of the leaders in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery. He is the founder of KDD - Knowledge Discovery Conferences, a co-founder and past Chair (2005-2009) of ACM SIGKDD, (professional association on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), and Editor of KDnuggets.com and KDnuggets News.

He has extensive experience in successfully applying data mining and business analytics to e-commerce, banking, web mining, telecom, biomedical, pharma, and other fields. Gregory worked with companies in US, Europe, and Latin America. Gregory also served as an expert witness in several cases and testified in a federal court.

Here are some recent projects in Web Mining and Business Analytics Biomedical and Pharma applications, and expert witness work.

Web Mining and Business Analytics

• Analyzed usage logs to develop user / feature clustering for a major software vendor
• Developed a system for finding likely unlicensed / fraudulent use for a major software vendor
• Developed test suites and algorithms for an on-line recommendation systems for a mid-size e-tailer
• Analyzed call patterns and found cost-savings and recommendations opportunities for a large telco services company.
• Used data mining for fraud detection in on-line auctions
• Analyzed user command logs, patterns, and crash hotspots for a leading CAD company.
• Analyzed web usage logs for a large web publisher to improve visitor conversion.
• Developed a mini-course on web mining and web log analysis.
• Developed link analysis and customer grouping algorithm for a telephone company.
• Participated as an invited expert in Shell workshop on technology impact in 2025.
• Developed non-payment and attrition models for child support for a state agency.
• Presented a clinic on Data Mining Methods to a major global bank.
• Audited data use in ecommerce company and identifying new business opportunities.
• Developed value-attrition and optimized cross-sell models for a global financial institution.
• Developed attrition models for credit products for a major US bank.
• Analyzed e-tail operations and identifying cross-sell opportunities and shopping cart abandonment.
• Created mortgage default models for a major Latin American bank.
• Analyzed reserve needs for a major car lease financing company.
• Analyzed interest rate sensitivity for a major insurance company.
• Performed retail customer segmentation and Cross-sell modeling for a major European bank.
• Developed customer attrition models for a GTE Wireless (now part of Verizon)

Expert Witness work

• Served as an expert witness in a case involving search engine advertising
• Served as an expert witness and testified in a federal court in a case involving identifying potential auction fraud.
• Served as an expert witness in a case involving real-time data mining and analytics.
• Served as an expert witness in a case involving patents on data mining and web mining.

Biomedical, Pharma, and Genomic Applications

• Analyzed memory drug effectiveness and relationship between pharmakinetics and pharmadynamics
• Analyzed several proteomic (Mass Spec) datasets for biomarkers of a neurological disease; found a number of novel diagnostics.
• Worked with a large pharmaceutical company to develop a model for predicting drug effectiveness.
• Analyzed DNA microarrays and found a new gene marker for a type of brain tumor.
• Developed Data Mining Templates and Case Studies for Microarray Data Mining; obtained results which were comparable or better than previously reported.
• Analyzed healthcare data for GTE (now part of Verizon)