Speaker: Claudia Perlich

Claudia Perlich currently acts as chief scientist at Dstillery (previously m6d) and in this role designs, develops, analyzes, and optimizes the machine learning that drives digital advertising. She has published more than 50 scientific article and holds multiple patents in machine learning. She has won many data mining competitions and best paper awards at KDD and is acting as General Chair for KDD 2014. Before joining m6d in February 2010, Perlich worked in the Predictive Modeling Group at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, concentrating on data analytics and machine learning for complex real-world domains and applications. She holds a PhD in information systems from NYU and an MA in computer science from Colorado University and teaches in the Stern MBA program at NYU. @claudia_perlich