Executive Data Architecture
Usama Fayyad has over 30 years of experience in the fields of data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data. Data scientist and entrepreneur, Usama Fayyad is the Founder and Chairman of Open Insights, a data strategy, technology and consulting company that helps enterprises get value out of their data assets. Open Insights provides services such as data monetization, data governance, data quality, data engineering, and data science to clients across various industries and geographies .
He is also the Inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, where he leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners who aim to create AI solutions that augment human intelligence and capabilities . He has held various leadership positions in academia and industry, such as:
- The first Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President at Yahoo!, where he built one of the world’s largest data processing systems
- The co-founder and CEO of OODA Health, a healthcare technology company that aims to improve the administrative experience of patients and providers
- The co-founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Machine Learning and the co-founder of the ACM SIGKDD association for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining