Foster Provost is an American computer scientist, information systems researcher, and Professor of Data Science, Professor of Information Systems and Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business.

He is also the Director for the Data Science and AI Initiative at Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation.

He has won awards for his work, including: Professor Provost was on the founding teams for five startups, including Dstillery, Integral Ad Science (IAS), Everyscreen Media, Predicube, and Detectica.

[9] Professor Provost was a Scientific Advisor for the ISI Foundation (which awards the Lagrange Prize), served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Machine Learning for 6+ years.

He was elected as a founding board member of the International Machine Learning Society.