Dr. Robert Bell, Team Win Netflix $1Million Challenge
Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Industry News, News, PhD, Research, Scholarly Celebrations
Dr. Robert Bell is an African-American statistician – a demographic that has low statistical numbers in and of itself. How many African-American statisticians do you know? Probably not many. And how many do you know have won $1 million challenges? Well, we know of at least one!
Dr. Robert Bell earned a BS in Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College (1972) and a Masters in Statistics, University of Chicago (1973), and a PhD in Statistics, Stanford University (1980). Dr. Robert Bell has been a member of the Statistics Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research since 1998. He previously worked at RAND doing public policy analysis. His current research interests include machine learning methods, analysis of data from complex samples, and record linkage methods. He has served on several National Research Council panels advising the Census Bureau and chairs a current panel on coverage measurement for the 2010 census. He is a member of the board of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Dr. Robert Bell is also member of the winning team, BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos, that won Netflix’s $1Million Challenge. The seven-person team is made up of statisticians, machine-learning experts and computer engineers from the United States, Austria, Canada and Israel. View the team’s website, a record of their progress on the road to becoming winners.
Netflix $1Million Challenge Winners
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