Rayid Ghani

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Rayid Ghani
Born1977 (age 45–46)
Karachi, Pakistan
Alma mater University of the South, TN
Carnegie Mellon University, PA
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science, Machine learning, Data science, Artificial Intelligence, Social Good, Public Policy
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University

Rayid Ghani is a Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department (in the School of Computer Science) and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he was the director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy, research associate professor in the department of computer science, and a senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was also the co-founder of Edgeflip, an analytics startup that grew out of the Obama 2012 Campaign, focused on social media products for non-profits, advocacy groups, and charities. Recently, it was announced that he will be leaving the University of Chicago and joining Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. [1]

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Ghani started and runs the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship. [2] [3] He's also the co-founder of Coleridge Initiative, a nonprofit organization working with governments to ensure that data and evidence is used more effectively for policymaking.

Education and career

Ghani completed his schooling at the Karachi Grammar School, in Karachi, Pakistan. [4] Ghani completed his graduate studies in the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University with Tom M. Mitchell on machine learning and text classification and received his undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics from University of the South.

Before his role at the University of Chicago, he was the chief scientist of the Obama 2012 Campaign. [5] [6] Before that, he was a senior research scientist and director of analytics research at Accenture Labs, where he led a technology research team focused on applied R&D in analytics, machine learning, and data mining for large-scale and emerging business problems.

Policy efforts

Ghani has been actively working with government agencies and non-profits on designing AI and Machine Learning Systems to help tackle societal problems in public health, [7] criminal justice, [8] social services, [9] education, [10] economic development, and workforce development [11]

He has also testified in front of the US Senate (Testimony) and the US House of Representatives (Testimony) on AI Governance and Regulation.

Research contributions

Ghani's research focuses on developing and applying machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence methods to large-scale social problems in areas such as education, healthcare, economic development, criminal justice, energy, transportation, and public safety. [12] His work has previously focused on text analytics, [13] fundraising, volunteer, and voter mobilization [14] using analytics, social media, [15] and machine learning., [16] [17] and data mining. [18] Rayid's research contributions have been in the areas of text mining, co-training, active learning, consumer behavior modeling, [19] and fraud detection.

He has given keynote speeches on Analytics and the Presidential Elections (for example at Predictive Analytics World, [20] Digital Leaders Forum, [21] Carnegie Mellon University, [22] and CeBIT Australia [23] [24] ), on Business Applications of Data Mining, [25] and Data Science for Social Good.

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Rayid Ghani, Pioneer in Applying AI to Social Issues, Joins Carnegie Mellon".
  2. ↑ "Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship".
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  10. ↑ Lakkaraju, Himabindu; Aguiar, Everaldo; Shan, Carl; Miller, David; Bhanpuri, Nasir; Ghani, Rayid; Addison, Kecia L. (2015-08-10). "A Machine Learning Framework to Identify Students at Risk of Adverse Academic Outcomes". Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. KDD '15. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1909–1918. doi:10.1145/2783258.2788620. ISBN   978-1-4503-3664-2. S2CID   207227441.
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