Foster Provost is a Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business(纽约大学商学院,全美前五,在金融领域尤其突出), where he has taught data science to MBAs for 15 years. His research and teaching focus on data science, machine learning, business analytics, (social) network data, and crowd-sourcing for data analytics. Tom Fawcett has a Ph.D. in machine learning from UMass-Amherst and has worked in industrial research (GTE Laboratories, NYNEX/Verizon Labs, HP Labs, etc.). He has served as action editor of the Machine Learning journal, before which he was an editorial board member.