Nikunj C. Oza received his B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1994. He received his M.S. (in 1998) and Ph.D. (in 2001) in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

He then joined NASA Ames Research Center and is a member of their Intelligent Data Understanding (IDU) group. He leads of a team applying data mining to the problem of health management for aerospace vehicles. His 40+ research papers represent his research interests which include machine learning (especially ensemble learning and online learning), data mining, fault detection, integration of machine learning with automated planning and other areas of Artificial Intelligence, and their applications to Aeronautics and Earth Science.

He received the 2007 Arch T. Colwell Award in 2007 for co-authoring one of the five most innovative technical papers selected out of over 3300 SAE technical papers published in 2005.

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