Eric Siegel

Eric Siegel, Ph.D., is the founding conference chair of Predictive Analytics World – the leading cross-vendor commercial event – as well as Text Analytics World, and the President of Prediction Impact, Inc., providing analytics services to mid-tier through Fortune 100 companies. An expert in data mining and predictive analytics, Dr. Siegel served as a computer science professor at Columbia University, where he won the engineering school’s award for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. At Columbia, he advanced data mining technology in the realms of machine learning performance optimization, text analytics and data visualization. Dr. Siegel also cofounded two New York City-based software companies for customer/user profiling and data mining. Dr. Siegel is the instructor of the acclaimed training program, Predictive Analytics for Business, Marketing and Web, and the online version, Predictive Analytics Applied. He has published over 20 papers and articles in data mining research and computer science education and has served on 10 conference program committees.