Foster Provost
Professor of Data Science
Professor of Information Systems
Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow
Paduano Fellow in Business Ethics (Emeritus)
Affiliated Professor: Department of Computer Science
Dept. of Information, Operations and Management Sciences
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York University
Professor
Provost studies data science and its alignment with business problems.
His current main research interests are:
Prof. Provost's research has won numerous awards, including the Best Paper published in the journal Information Systems Research in 2015, Best Paper Awards at the top data science research conference, ACM SIGKDD, across three decades, the 2009 INFORMS Design Science Award for his work on Social Network-based Marketing Systems, IBM Faculty Awards for outstanding research in data mining and machine learning, a President's Award from what's now Verizon, and more.
Prof.
Provost served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Machine
Learning from 2004-2010. 
Prof. Provost co-founded of several successful NYC-based companies, including Detectica, Dstillery (formerly Media6degrees), Integral Ad Science, and Everyscreen Media. He advises other companies on data science and strategy.
Professor Provost advises small and large companies who are interested in extracting useful knowledge from their data. He has served as an expert witness on cases involving data science. He also advises the U.S. Government (National Science Foundation, NASA, DARPA, National Research Council, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) on policy and investments in data mining research.
He has applied advanced technologies to a variety of business and government problems, including compliance analysis, on-line advertising, targeted marketing, fraud detection, counterterrorism, network diagnosis, network monitoring, and customer contact management.
