Shawndra Hill Faculty Profile

Shawndra Hill
Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management

PhD, New York University, 2007; MPhil, New York University, 2003; BEE, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995; BS, Spelman College, 1995

Research Areas
Statistical relational learning, data mining/knowledge discovery in databases; machine learning; network-based marketing; dynamic networks

Recent Consulting
Resident Visiting Researcher (for Fraud, Network Analysis and Communities of Interest), AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, 2006-present

Current Projects
Use of consumer networks for target marketing and fraud detection; Data mining, machine learning and statistical relational learning and their alignment with business problems.

Other Positions
Technical Consultant, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, 2003-2006

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Dr. Fred Renwick Fellowship, NYU, 2004-2005; KPMG Doctoral Scholar, KPMG, 2000-2005; Doctoral Fellowship, NYU, 2000-2004; NYU Opportunity Fellowship, NYU, 2000-2003, Doctoral Fellowship, NBMBAA, 2000,2002,2005; Excellence in Teaching Award, NYU, 2003

Representative Publications
(with D. Agarwal, R. Bell, and C. Volinsky)
“Building an Effective Representation of Dynamic Networks.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (Sep 2006).

(with F. Provost and C. Volinsky)
“Network-based Marketing: Identifying Likely Adopters via Consumer Networks.” Statistical Science 22(2): 256-276 (2006).

(with A. Bernstein and F. Provost)
"Toward Intelligent Assistance for a Data Mining Process: An Ontology-Based Approach for Cost-Sensitive Classification." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 17(4): 503-518 (2005).

(with F. Provost)
"The Myth of the Double-blind Review? Author Identification Using Only Citations." SIGKDD Explorations 5(2): 179-184 (2003).