Claudia Perlich E-mail: perlich@us.ibm.com Phone: (914) 945-1570 (IBM tieline: 862) Fax: (914) 945-3434

Brief Biography

Claudia Perlich has received her M.Sc. in Computer Science from Colorado University at Boulder, Diplom in Computer Science from Technische Universitaet in Darmstadt, and her Ph.D. in Information Systems from Stern School of Business, New York University. Her Ph.D. thesis concentrated on probability estimation in multi-relational domains that capture information of multiple entity types and relationships between them. Her dissertation was recognized as an additional winner of the International SAP Doctoral Support Award Competition and her submission placed second in the yearly data mining competition in 2003 (KDD-Cup 03).

Claudia joined the Data Analytics Research group as a Research Staff Member in October 2004. She interned during summer 1999 at Deep Computing for Commerce Research Group under Murray Campbell working on financial trading behavior on Treasury Bonds. Her research interests are in machine learning for complex real-world domains and the comparative study of model performance as a function of domain characteristics.