University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Jerrold H. May

Professor of Business Administration

Office: 264 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1549
E-mail: jerrymay@katz.pitt.edu

Degrees

PhD, Yale University
MPhil, Yale University
BA, Roosevelt University

Courses Recently Taught

Data Mining (PhD)
Nonlinear Programming (PhD)
Research Methodology for Empirical Decision Science (PhD)
Data Mining (MBA)
Decision Technology (MBA)
Statistical Analysis (MBA)

Interest Groups

Operations, Decision Sciences, and Artificial Intelligence
Management Information Systems

Profile

Jerrold H. May has been a faculty member of KGSB since 1974. He is currently interested in data mining, and is a member of INFORMS and AAAI.

Research Interest Areas

Artificial Intelligence, Management Science

Publications

"Targeted Advertising Strategies on Television," Management Science 52: (2006) 713-725.

"Evaluating and Tuning Predictive Data Mining Methods Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves," Journal of MIS, 21:3 (Winter 2004-5) 249-280.

"Assessing the predictive accuracy of diversity measures with domain-dependent, asymmetric misclassification costs," Information Fusion 6:1 37-48.

"Estimating Procedure Times for Surgical Scheduling by Determining Location Parameters for the Logonormal Model," Health Care Management Science, 7:2 (2004), 97–104.

"Using Data Mining to Profile Television Viewers," Communications of the ACM, 46:12 (2003), 66–72.

"Estimating Times of Surgeries with Two Component Procedures: Comparison of the Lognormal and Normal Models," Anesthesiology, 98:1 (2003), 232–240.

"A Data Mining Approach to Characterizing Medical Code Usage Patterns," Journal of Medical Systems, 26:3 (2002), 255–275.