Malik Magdon-Ismail

Malik Magdon Ismail obtained a B.S. in Physics from Yale University in 1993 (summa cum laude, phi beta kappa) and a Masters in Physics (1995) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1998, winning the Wilts prize. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he is a member of the Theory group. His research interests have included the theory and applications of machine learning, social network algorithms, communication networks and computational finance. In particular, he is interested in the statistical, theoretical and algorithmic aspects of learning from data. He also has consulted in a variety of capacities in computational finance and data mining.