David Grossman PH.D

David is currently on the faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he runs their next generation search lab. In 2003, he was the general chair for the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management and has over seventy publications on next generation search technology as well as a graduate level textbook on Information Retrieval. David worked for the government for 12 years where his last job was as project manager for the enterprise data warehouse and he led efforts to build an executive information system that is still in place. After doing significant research, David was awarded the 1997 CIA Scientist of the Year.

David has significant knowledge of OLAP technology and was a pioneer in this field. He has a depth of experience in the natural integration of structured and unstructured data. He has written patents on "intranet mediation" which describes the many fundamentally different high-level types (structured, semi-structured, text, video, image, sound, etc.) and "Detection of Misuse of Authorized Access in an Information Retrieval System". David received his Ph.D. from George Mason in 1995 - Ph.D. Information Technology Thesis: Integrating Structured Data and Text: A Relational Approach. His consulting work focuses on Data Warehousing and Data Mining, and Database systems.