Andrew Moore ( www.cs.cmu.edu/~awm) is director of Google's newest engineering office in Pittsburgh, PA. Prior to joining Google in January 2006, Andrew was a Professor of Robotics and Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.  Andrew began his career writing video-games for an obscure British personal computer (http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=detail&num_log=2). He rapidly became a thousandaire and retired to academia, where he received a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991. He researched robot learning as a Post-doc working with Chris Atkeson, and then moved to CMU.

His main research interest is data mining: statistical algorithms for finding all the potentially useful and statistically meaningful patterns in large sources of data. His research group, The Auton Lab, (http://www.autonlab.org) has devised several new ways of performing large statistical operations efficiently, in several cases accelerating state-of-the-art by a several magnitudes.  Members of the Auton Lab collaborate closely with many kinds of scientists, government agencies, technology companies and engineers in a constant quest to determine what are some of the most urgent unresolved questions at the border of computation and statistics.  Auton Lab algorithms are now in use in dozens of commercial, university and government applications. Andrew has received three best paper awards in recent years and has been keynote speaker at four top international conferences in his field: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Andrew serves on several editorial boards, and in industrial, government and academic advisory roles, and in 2003 jointly (with Mike Wagner of the University of Pittsburgh) briefed President Bush on data mining for bioterrorism detection. In 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of AAAI: the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.  Andrew became a US citizen in 2003, and lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two children: William (8) and Lucy (2). Outside his work life and family life, Andrew states that he has no hobbies or talents of any significance.