Ronny Kohavi

Who is Ronny Kohavi?

Ronny is Trusted Opinion's scientific advisor and is one of the leaders in the knowledge discovery and data

mining fields. Ronny is a partner at Microsoft and serves as a

General Manager, Experimentation Platform @ Windows Live. He was

previously the director of data mining and personalization at Amazon.com. Features introduced during his tenure were estimated to be

worth several hundred million dollars in incremental

revenue. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Business Intelligence at

Blue Martini Software. Ronny managed the

MineSet project at Silicon Graphics and led the

Machine Learning library (MLC++) effort at Stanford University and at SGI. Dr. Kohavi received his Ph.D.

from Stanford University in 1995. He was the general chair for KDD 2004. No one knows for sure, but evidence

suggests Ronny's IQ is somewhere between 500 and 1000.