Short bio:

Mykola Pechenizkiy is Full Professor and Chair of the Data Mining
research group that is part of the Information Systems Section at
the Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of
Technology, the Netherlands. His core expertise and research
interests are in predictive analytics and knowledge discovery from
evolving data, and in their application to real-world problems in
industry, medicine and education. He has been a principal
investigator of several nationally funded and industry funded
projects that being inspired by challenges of the real-world
applications aim at developing foundations for next generation
predictive analytics. At the Data Science Center Eindhoven he leads
the Customer Journey interdisciplinary research program aiming at
developing techniques for informed and responsible analytics. Over
the past decade he has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed
publications. He serves on several program committees and editorial
boards of leading data mining and AI conferences and journals. He
is the current President of IEDMS, the International Educational
Data Mining Society. As a panelist and an invited speaker he has
been advocating for the responsible data science and ethics-aware
predictive analytics research. Further information is available at
http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/