About Robert Grossman

  • Robert Grossman speaks frequently at industry and technical meetings describing current developments and trends related to the business and technology of data. Please contact him via email at grossman.info at gmail.com if you would like him to give a talk.

  • Robert Grossman is the Managing Partner of Open Data Group. Open Data helps companies develop and improve their analytic strategies and provides outsourced analytic services so that companies can increase revenues, decrease costs, and improve business processes. Please contact him at info at opendatagroup dot com if you would like to work with him.

  • He is also the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing (LAC) and the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. LAC and NCDM develop open source technology for internet-scale and cloud computing, such as UDT and Sector, and hosts the development of standards, such as the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML).

  • He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) for the term 2005-2009.

  • Here are some recent awards:

    • Overall Winner, SC 09 Bandwidth Challenge. Maximizing Bandwidth Utilization in Distributed Data Intensive Applications, was the Overall Winner in the Bandwidth Challenge at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications 2009 (SC09).

    • First Place, SC 08 Bandwidth Challenge. Towards Global Scale Cloud Computing: Using Sector and Sphere on the Open Cloud Testbed won First Place in the Bandwidth Challenge at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications 2008 (SC08).

    • First Place, SC07 Analytics Challenge. Angle: Detecting Anomalies and Emergent Behavior from Distributed Data in Near Real Time won First Place at the Analytics Challenge at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications 2007 (SC07).

    • ACM SIGKDD 2007 Service Award for "... the development of open and scalable architectures and standards for the SIGKDD and Global KDD Communities." SIGKDD is the ACM's professional group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

    • First Place, 2007 Data Mining Practice Prize. A project I led was awarded First Place in the 2007 Data Mining Practice Prize at the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007).

    • First Place, SC 06 Bandwidth Challenge. Distributing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using Sector won First Place in the Bandwidth Challenge at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications 2006 (SC06).

    • First Place, SC 05 Analytics Challenge. The project Real Time Change Detection of Highway Sensor Data won First Place in the Analytics Challenge at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications 2005 (SC05).

    • First Place (1 of 4), SC 04 Bandwidth Challenge. Disk-To-Disk Data Transfers Using UDT was one of the four winners of the Bandwidth Challenge at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications 2004 (SC04).

  • Here is a short biographical sketch.

  • Here is curriculum vita in html, and a longer consolidated one in pdf. There is also a short description of some selected technical achievements.

  • Here are some pictures: head (png, 2008, 624kb)       head (tif, 2001, 732kb)       head (jpg, 24kb)
    giving a lecture (jpg, 324kb)