Biography

Morgan C. Wang is the funding Director of Data Mining Program (funded in 1999) and Professor of Statistics at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is also an affiliated faculty with the School of Computer Sciences and College of Business Administration at UCF. He couched student teams to win the 2011 and 2012 SAS Data Mining Shootout Contest. He won the best conference award in the First Annual Conference on Engineering and Technology Innovation in 2008. He was the first prize-winner in Data Mining Competition of the 11th SIGMOD KDD (the most predigest data mining competition) conference in 2004 and the first prize winner in Data Visualization Contest of SUGI 25 conference in 2000, and was given invited talks on making intelligent decision based on big data analytics for more than eighty times for American Statistical Association, SIGKDD (leading conference in data mining), International Conference on Information Technology, SAS Global Forum, Well Fargo Bank, Republic Bank, Florida Blue, Disney, Kemper Preferred Auto Insurance, HealthFirst, QFOR, and many companies and universities around the world. He is an member of Ad Hoc Big Data Advisory Committee for the President of American Statistical Association (ASA).

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Research Interest

Building predictive model automatically and intelligently, big data analytics, automatic time series model building, and meta-analysis.