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Nick Street

Tippie Children Professor in Business Analytics and Associate Dean for Research and PhD Programs

Current Positions

  • Tippie Children Professor in Business Analytics, Business Analytics
  • Associate Dean for Research and PhD Programs, Dean's Office
  • Professor, Business Analytics
  • Professor, Nursing
  • Professor, Computer Science

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MS in Computer Science, DePaul University
  • BA in Mathematics and Computer Science, Drake University

Research Interests

  • Data science
  • Machine learning
  • Business analytics
  • Healthcare analytics

Selected Awards & Honors

  • INFORMS Society on Data Mining Prize, 2022
  • Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Business Analytics, 2014
  • Dean's Teaching Award - Tippie College of Business, 2012
  • Nominee, Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award - University of Iowa Graduate College, 2010
  • Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow - Tippie College of Business, 2002
  • Master of Business Analytics Instructor of the Year: Core - Tippie College of Business, 2023

Professional Memberships

  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Selected Publications

  • Yasar Saglam, S. & Street, W. N. (2018). Distant diversity in dynamic class prediction. Annals of Operations Research. 263 (1-2) pp. 5-19. DOI: 10.1007/s10479-016-2328-8.
  • Wang, W. & Street, W. Finding Hierarchical Communities in Complex Networks Using Influence-Guided Label Propagation. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops 2015. pp. 547-556.
  • Yasar Saglam, S. & Street, N. Diversity in dynamic class prediction. In Proceedings of INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics 2015.
  • Wang, W., Street, W., & deMatta, R. Topological Resilience Analysis of Supply Networks under Random Disruptions and Targeted Attacks. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining 2015. pp. 250-257.
  • Wang, W. & Street, W. (2015). Modeling Influence Diffusion to Uncover Influence Centrality and Community Structure in Social Networks. Social Network Analysis and Mining. 5 (1).
  • Yasar Saglam, S. & Street, N. Dynamic class prediction with classifier based distance measure. In Proceedings of Australasian Data Mining Conference 2014.
  • Wang, X., Zhao, K., & Street, N. Predicting user engagement in online health communities based on social support activities. In Proceedings of INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics 2014.
  • Duan, L., Street, N., Liu, Y., Xu, S., & Wu, B. (2014). Selecting the right correlation measure for binary data. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. 9 (14).
  • Duan, L., Street, N., Liu, Y., & Lu, H. Community detection in graphs through correlation. In Proceedings of International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2014.
  • Gbegnon, A., Monestina, J., Street, N., & Cromwell, J. W. Predicting surgical site infections in real time. In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Health Informatics 2014.

Selected Presentations

  • "Inverse Classification: Better Algorithms for Better Decision Making," Guest/Invited Speaker at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, February 2017.
  • "Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics for Personalized Health Care Decision Making," Keynote/Plenary Address at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, February 2017.
  • "Turning More Data into Better Outcomes: Analytics at the University of Iowa," Guest/Invited Speaker at The Way Up: Developing Women Leaders to Enhance Iowa Higher Education, Coralville, Iowa, November 2016.
  • "From TIMS/ORSA to Analytics: What We Did, What We’re Doing, and How We Pass It On,," Keynote/Plenary Address at INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2016.
  • "Predictive Analytics for Personalized Health Care Decision Making," Guest/Invited Speaker at GSS Department Seminar, Iowa City, Iowa, February 2016.
  • "Predicting Surgical Site Infections in Real-Time," Guest/Invited Speaker at INFORMS Healthcare Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, July 2015.
  • "Predictive Analytics for Personalized Health Care Decision Making," Keynote/Plenary Address at Belgian Conference on Operations Research, Antwerp, Belgium, February 2015.
  • "A Machine-learning Technique for the Prediction of Equity Price Direction," Guest/Invited Speaker at INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 2014.
  • "Large-scale Correlation Search in Binary Data," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Iowa, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2014.
  • "Large-scale Correlation Search in Binary Data," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2014.

Selected Grants & Contracts

  • Street, W, N.. Center for Advancing Mutimorbidity Science (CAMS): Profiling risk and symptom expression to develop customized therapies for adults with multiple chronic conditions. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Funded. September 2018 - August 2023.
  • Street, W, N. (Co-Principal), Principal Investigator(s): Lu, D. Mining Clinical Data Sets for Nursing Dx, Outcomes and Intervention Links and EBP Validation. University of Iowa. Funded. May 2008 - June 2009.
  • Street, W, N. (Co-Principal), Principal Investigator(s): McCarthy, A. Predicting Children's Responses to Distraction from Pain: Tailored Interventions. National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). Funded. August 2007 - May 2011.
  • Street, W, N. (Co-Principal), Principal Investigator(s): McCarthy, A. Operationalizing and Pilot Testing the Computerized Predictive Model for Distration: Interventions for Needle Sticks in Children. University of Iowa. Funded. May 2007 - August 2007.
  • Street, W, N. (Site-PI). Data-driven Disease Prevention and Control in Animal Health. National Science Foundation (NSF). Funded. October 2021 - September 2023.
  • Street, W, N. (Principal Investigator), Principal Investigator(s): Baek, S., Wu, X. ImagiQ: Asynchronous and Decentralized Federated Learning for Medical Imaging. National Science Foundation (NSF). Funded. September 2020 - May 2022.
  • Street, W, N. (Co-Principal), Principal Investigator(s): Chi, N. Administrative Supplement: Center for Advancing Multimorbidity Science: Profiling risk and symptom expression to develop customized therapies for adults with multiple chronic conditions. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Funded. August 2020 - July 2022.

Employment History

  • Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Business Analytics, Business Analytics, University of Iowa, 2014 - 2022

Editorial & Review Activities

  • Referee/Reviewer, Entropy, 2021-22.
  • Editorial Board Member, INFORMS Journal on Data Science, July 2020.