I am the Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Computer Science and the Jim and Karen Frank Director of the Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS) at the University of Chicago.

Since 2011, I have been the Chief Research Informatics Officer (CRIO) of the Biological Sciences Division, and, since 2016, I have been the Co-Chief of the Section of Computational Biomedicine and Biomedical Data Science in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago.

I am the Chair of the not-for-profit Open Commons Consortium, which develops and operates clouds to support research in science,
medicine, health care, and the environment.

I have been a Partner of Analytic Strategy Partners LLC since 2017. I was the founder and Managing Partner of Open Data Group from 2002-2016. Open Data Group provides analytic services and products so that companies can deploy predictive models.

I can be reached via Linkedin.

Honors and Awards

Advisory Boards

  • I am member of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the term 2017-2020.

  • I am a Committee Member of the National Cancer Institute's Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Advisory Committee (FNLCR) for the term 2014 to 2021.

  • From 2013--2016, I was a committee Member of the National Research Council (NRC) study: Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure, 2017-2020.

  • From 2013 to 2014, I was a Committee Member of the National Research Council (NRC) study: A Review of U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Capabilities.

  • From 2009 to 2014, I was a member of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC)'s Information Technology Infrastructure Committee.

  • From 2011 to 2013, I was the Co-Chair of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Cyber Security and Reliability in a Digital Cloud.

  • From 2008 to the present, I have been the Director of the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC).

  • From 1998 to 2010, I was the Director of the Data Mining Group, which develops the Predictive Model Markup Language.

  • I was a Member of the Board of Directors of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) during the period 2005-2013.

  • From its founding in 1999 until 2003, I was a Member of Board of Directors of Infoblox (NYSE: BLOX).

Other Awards

  • SC Conference Awards:

    • Overall Winner, SC 09 Bandwidth Challenge.

    • First Place, SC 08 Bandwidth Challenge.

    • First Place, SC07 Analytics Challenge.

    • First Place, SC 06 Bandwidth Challenge.

  • ACM SIGKDD 2007 Service Award for “… the development of open and scalable architectures and standards for the SIGKDD and Global KDD Communities.” SIGKDD is the ACM’s professional group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

  • First Place, 2007 Data Mining Practice Prize. A project I led was awarded First Place in the 2007 Data Mining Practice Prize at the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007).