Robert Grossman's Curriculum Vita

Robert Grossman is the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing (LAC) and the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The Lab and Center perform research, sponsor standards, manage an international data mining testbed, and engage in outreach activities in the areas of data mining and data intensive computing.

Robert Grossman became a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1988 and is currently Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science and Professor of Computer Science. From 1984-1988 he was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1985 and a B.A. from Harvard in 1980. He currently holds a part time appointment at UIC.

Robert Grossman is also the Founder and 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.

Prior to founding the Open Data Partners, he founded Magnify, Inc. in 1996. Magnify provides data mining solutions to the insurance industry. Grossman was Magnify's CEO until 2001 and its Chairman until it was sold to ChoicePoint in 2005. In addition, he founded Magnify Research, which provides data mining solutions to the federal government. Magnify Research was sold to Baesch Computer Consulting in 2002, and is now part of Unisys.

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 2009--2011. He was also a Member for the terms 2007--2009 and 2005--2007.

Since 1998, Grossman has been the Chair of the Data Mining Group (DMG), an industry consortium responsible for the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), an XML language for data mining and predictive modeling.

He has published over 125 papers in refereed journals and proceedings on data mining, internet technologies, high performance computing, e-business, and related areas and edited six books. He is a frequent speaker and often participates on panels at conferences and shows about data mining, internet technologoies, grid computing, high performance computing and networking, data warehousing, knowledge discovery, and e-business.

Selected 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).

Education and Work Experience

Open Data Group Founder and Managing Partner, 2001-present.

Magnify, Inc. Founder and Chairman, 1994-2005; CEO, 1994-2001.

University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, & Computer Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995-present. Associate Professor 1991-1995. Assistant Professor 1988-1991. Director, Laboratory for Advanced Computing, 1990-present. Director, National Center for Data Mining, 1998-present. Part time appointment 1994-present.

Cornell University. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science 1994-1995. Visiting Scientist, Mathematical Sciences Institute, 1989.

University of California at Berkeley. NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow. 1984-1988.

Princeton University. 1980-1984. Ph.D. Mathematics, 1985.

Harvard University. 1976-1980. A.B., Mathematics, 1980.

Research Interests

cloud computing, data intensive computing, data mining, Internet technologies, high performance computing and networking, grid computing, database marketing, and e-business.

Publications and Talks

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