Usama Fayyad

Usama Fayyad is Executive Director of Northeastern's Institute for Experiential AI and Professor of the Practice at Khoury College. His vision centers on human-machine intelligence fusion for practical AI solutions. Previously, he pioneered roles as Chief Data Officer at Yahoo! (founding Yahoo Research Labs) and Barclays, and founded Open Insights. His NASA/JPL work earned Caltech's Excellence in Research award and a NASA medal.

Research Leadership: Focuses on overcoming deployment barriers for AI systems, ethical AI frameworks, and developing standards for data science talent assessment.

Awards: Recognized as Fellow of AAAI and ACM for transformative contributions to data mining and AI infrastructure.