Dr. David M. Steier, Director of Fraud Analytics, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

David Steier received his PhD in Computer Science in 1989. His dissertation, "Automating algorithm design within a general architecture for intelligence" was supervised by Allen Newell. After graduating, he spent three more years at Carnegie Mellon as a member of the research faculty in the Engineering Design Research Center, teaching classes in software engineering and applying artificial intelligence techniques to problems ranging from scheduling the manufacture of automobile windshields to the creating new interfaces for the NASA Test Director, who coordinates the space shuttle launch sequence.

After CMU, David hiked the southern part of the Appalachian Trail, then moved to California to join the staff of the Price Waterhouse World Technology Centre, where he eventually became Director of R&D. He and the group worked on applications of AI to management of semi-structured data, including financial SEC filings, newswire articles, and the firm's internal
Notes databases. He left PW in 1998 to join Scient, a professional services firm that created e-businesses, to help with both internal knowledge management applications and consulting in KM for clients, and then spent a year as Senior Director of Technology and Business Development at Kanisa, a web-based customer self-service software vendor. Now he is back at PricewaterhouseCoopers, applying AI techniques to the detection of corporate fraud.

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