Dr. Steinbach earned his B.S. degree in Mathematics, a M.S. degree in Statistics, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities working in the research group of Prof. Vipin Kumar.  His research interests are in the area of data mining, machine learning, biomedical informatics, and statistics.  Dr. Steinbach is a co-author of the data mining textbook, Introduction to Data Mining, published by Addison-Wesley, which is used world-wide and has been translated into many languages. Previously, he held a variety of software engineering, analysis, and design positions in industry at Silicon Biology, Racotek, and NCR.