Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

A Jewish refugee from Soviet Union, Gregory Piatetsky was born in Moscow, Russia to Inna Mogilevskaya and mathematician Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.

[3][4] In March 1974, Piatetsky emigrated to Israel with his family, studying mathematics and computer science at Tel Aviv University for one semester at Technion.

[15] In 1997, Piatetsky and Ismail Parsa initiated the KDD Cup competition, which was the world's first open data mining contest.

With the emergence of the Internet and Mosaic, he and Chris Matheus eventually created the website: Knowledge Discovery Mine,[19] hosted at GTE Labs.

When Piatetsky left GTE Labs, he created the KDnuggets website,[20] with the mission of covering the field with short, concise "nuggets".

[21] @KDnuggets Twitter was In February 2015, Piatetsky and Data ScienceTech Institute announced a partnership and he became an Honorary Member of its Scientific Advisory Board.

In 1996, Piatetsky, Usama Fayyad, Padhraic Smyth, and Ramasamy Uthurusamy edited a follow-up Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.