Bianca Zadrozny E-mail: zadrozny@us.ibm.com Phone: (914) 945-2042 (IBM tieline: 862) Fax: (914) 945-3434 Personal page

Brief Biography

Bianca Zadrozny joined the Data Analytics Research group as a Reseach Staff Member in September 2003, shortly after receiving her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. She also holds an M.S. degree from UCSD and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her research interests are in machine learning and data mining, particularly in methods for learning decision policies from data describing outcomes of previous decisions.

While a Ph.D. student, Bianca was the recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship and an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. She interned at the Data Analytics Research group during the summers of 2001 and 2002, working with Naoki Abe and Ed Pednault in reinforcement learning, cost-sensitive learning and query learning.