Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D. is the President of KDnuggets, which provides research and consulting services in the areas of data mining, knowledge discovery, bioinformatics, and business analytics. Previously, he led data mining and consulting groups at GTE Laboratories, Knowledge Stream Partners, and Xchange. He has extensive experience developing CRM, customer attrition, cross-sell, segmentation and other models for some of the leading banks, insurance companies, and telcos. He also worked on clinical trial, microarray, and proteomic data analysis for several leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Gregory served as an expert witness and provided expert opinions in several cases.

Gregory is also the Editor and Publisher of KDnuggets News, the leading newsletter on data mining and knowledge discovery, and the associated KDnuggets.com website, a top-ranked portal for data mining and knowledge discovery software, jobs, solutions, courses, companies, and publications, and more.

Gregory is currently the Chair of ACM SIGKDD, the leading professional organization for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. He is also the founder of Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) conferences, having organized and chaired the first three Knowledge Discovery in Databases workshops in 1989, 1991, and 1993.

Gregory has over 60 publications, including 2 best-selling books and several edited collections on topics related to data mining and knowledge discovery, including SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Microarray Data Mining (Vol 5, Issue 2, Dec 2003).