The ACM student chapter (Association of Computer Machinery, USA) of the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Jaipur is organizing a distinguished lecture by Prof. Dr. Robert P. Schumaker, University of Texas at Tyler, USA at the UEM Jaipur premises on 26th July, 2018.
Dr. Schumaker received his PhD in Management from the University of Arizona in 2007, an MBA degree in Management and International Business from the University of Akron in 2001, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1997. He is also the Associate Editor for DSS, has authored a book on Sports Data Mining, several book chapters, multiple journal articles in DSS, ACM TOIS, CACM and JASIST as well as had his research featured in the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media outlets.Dr. Schumaker’s overall research interests involve the uses of technology to acquire, deliver and make predictions in a variety of business-related environments. These interests further branch into computer mediated communications, data science, human computer interfaces, machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and textual data mining. In particular, he focuses on the areas of question/answer systems, textual/financial prediction and sports data analytics.
