Awards
2020
2020 ACM SIGKDD Test of Time Award
Paper: “Get Another Label …” with Sheng and Ipeirotis
2020
Best Student Paper Award Runner-up, WISE 2020
Paper: A Comparison of Methods for Treatment Assignment with an Application to Playlist Generation (Carlos Fernández-Loría was the student)
2018
Finalist, 2018 Algorithm for Change AI/ML Competition (Helping low income, underrepresented minority and first generation students get to and through college)
Algorithm for Change AI/ML Competition
2017
European Research Paper of the Year 2017 (awarded by AIS & CIONET – for a paper in MISQ)
AIS & CIONET
2016
Best Paper Award, Information Systems Research (2016)
Information Systems Research
2015
INFORMS President’s Pick, for paper published in Information Systems Research (Fall 2015)
INFORMS
2014
2014 NYU/Stern MSBA Best Teacher Award
NYU/Stern
2015
3 of the Top-5 Most Downloaded Papers (including #1) in the journal Big Data (as of Nov. 2015)
Big Data
2014
Nominated for 2014 NYU/Stern Professor of the Year by the MBA student body (one of 31 nominees)
NYU/Stern
2013
Nominated for 2013 NYU/Stern Professor of the Year by the MBA student body (one of 23 nominees)
NYU/Stern
2012
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGKDD 2012, Industry Track
ACM SIGKDD 2012, Industry Track
2012
People’s Choice Award, Runner-up, 2012 Future of Advertising Conf. on Empirical Generalizations in Advertising
Future of Advertising Conf. on Empirical Generalizations in Advertising
2014
Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Awards 2014
Wharton
2012
Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Awards 2012
Wharton
2011
Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Awards 2011
Wharton
2009
Marketing Science Institute Award (one of several)
Marketing Science Institute
2009
The INFORMS Design Science Award, December 2009
INFORMS
2008
Best Paper Award Runner-up, ACM SIGKDD 2008
ACM SIGKDD 2008
2003
Third Place in KDDCUP-2003
KDDCUP-2003
2000
PI: IBM Faculty Awards ($80,000), “Extending the Reach of Data Mining”
IBM
2003
Second Place in KDDCUP-2003
KDDCUP-2003
2001
IBM Faculty Awards, 2001
IBM
2001
Elected as one of ten founding board members of the Intl. Machine Learning Society, Fall 2001 (Reelected 2006)
Intl. Machine Learning Society
2000
IBM Faculty Awards, 2000
IBM
1997
Best Paper Award, Third International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-97)
Third International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-97)
1995
President’s Award, NYNEX Science and Technology (now Verizon)
NYNEX Science and Technology (now Verizon)
1986
Graduated First in Class. Summa Cum Laude (4.0 GPA), and awarded the Certificates of General Excellence, Excellence in Mathematics, and Excellence in Physics
Duquesne University
2004
PI: DOD/AFRL Grant ($186,925) Evidence Assessment, Grouping, Linking, and Evaluation Program
Evidence Assessment, Grouping, Linking, and Evaluation Program
2009
PI: Marketing Science Institute Award ($6500) “On-line brand advertising using social networks induced from user-generated content”
Marketing Science Institute
2001
PI: DARPA Grant ($825,000), Evidence Extraction and Link Discover Program
Evidence Extraction and Link Discover Program
2004
PI: NYSIA Grant ($35,000), “Algorithms and software for suspicion scoring”
NYSIA
1994
Co-PI: NSF Grant NSF-IRI-9412549 ($240,101), “Using Parallelism to Scale Up Machine Learning to Large Data-Analysis Problems”
NSF
2008
Co-PI: IBM OCR Award ($200,000) “Data and Risk.”
IBM