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Dr. Shepherd is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Computer
Science at Dalhousie University, and served as Dean of the Faculty from 2008 through
2015. He also founded the Institute for
Big Data Analytics at Dalhousie and chaired two successful Big Data
Conferences, in 2015 and 2017.
He has served on the boards of a number of not-for-profit
organizations and was the first chairperson of the Big Data Alliance of Nova
Scotia, a not-for-profit for big data knowledge transfer between academia and
industry. He served previously as the
Treasurer and Vice-President of the World Confederation of Productivity Science
and is a Fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science.
His research area is Information Retrieval, specifically text
retrieval from large unstructured data sets.
His research has also included genre for digital documents and the
personalization and delivery of electronic news. More recently, the subject of his research
interest is smart cities.
He was also the founder and first CEO of the Centre for Data
Analytics and Business Insights at the MYRA School of Business, Mysuru,
India.
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Institute for Big Data Analytics
MYRA
School of Business, Mysuru, India
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