Interagency Fraud and Risk Data Mining Group
Mission Statement
The Interagency Fraud and Risk Data Mining Group (IFRDMG) is a collection of investigators and auditors within the federal community that has been formed for the purpose of sharing best practices, raising awareness and offering a forum for the evaluation of data mining and risk modeling tools and techniques to detect fraudulent patterns and emerging risks.
Quarterly Meeting
The IFRDMG meets quarterly to hear from experts in the fields of data mining and risk analysis along with colleagues that are working on projects that involve data mining and risk analysis for fraud detection and related purposes.
Agenda
| 8:30 A.M. | Big Data Analysis for Fraud Detection and Analysis, Soo J. Lee, Amazon Web Services |
| 9:30 A.M. | Value Mining: How Entity Extraction Informs Analysis, Andrew Strite, IKANOW |
| 10:30 A.M. | Increasing Role of Data Analytics in Health Care Fraud Detection and Investigation, Gary Cantrell, HHS-OIG |
| 11:30 A.M. | Improper Payments – Contracts, Arnold Pettis, NASA-OIG |
CPE Credits
We now offer CPE credits to all attendee's of our quarterly meetings. Only those who attend in-person can receive the CPEs. You must sign-in and complete an evaluation form to get your CPE certificate.
Meeting Time and Location
Friday, June 22, 2012
8:30 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Department of Education
LBJ Auditorium, 1st Floor
400 Maryland Ave SW
Washington DC 20202
(or 4th and C St., SW)
Dial-in Access
Call Toll-Free
866-919-5240
Passcode for Participant: 6179071
Slideshow Remote Viewing via Webex
Event address for attendees:
https://educate.webex.com/educate/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=741398606
Webex Event password: 3018014701
Access to Facility
Please come with government ID or driver's license in hand. If attendees that are not on the list of addressees for this message wish to attend - your colleagues are welcome, please let us know their name and organizational affiliation ahead of time so as to speed up the security check.
Metro Directions
L'Enfant Plaza metro station (Maryland Ave. & 7th Street, SW exit) is closest to LBJ building. Walk east as you come out of the escalator (Maryland Ave. exit) to 6th Street and then walk to C Street, SW and then head east on C street until you come to the 4th and C Street, SW visitor's entrance of the LBJ building.
Google Map:
There is a parking garage at 6th and C Street, SW.
POC Phone numbers
Sean Fitzgerald (202) 245-6007
Fon Lin 202-245-6184 (office)
Main Security Desk 202-205-9039
Host Contact Information
Sean Fitzgerald
Department of Education
Office of Inspector General
(PH) (202) 245-6007
Email: Sean.Fitzgerald@ed.gov
Registration
Registration is simple. Just fill out the form below.
Past Meeting Agendas, Slideshows, and Handouts
You must request access to our archive site, CyberCop, to download materials from prior meetings. Send an email request to lee.giesbrecht@va.gov for more information. For those who already have a user account - the web link to CyberCop is https://cybercop.esportals.com
Steering Committee
The IFRDMG Steering Committee plans the quarterly meetings and generally helps to support the group. If you are interested in volunteering to serve on the Steering Committee, please let us know!
| Ann Brooks | U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security-OIG | ann.brooks@dhs.gov |
| Edward Roy Connor | Federal Communications Commission-OIG | Roy.Connor@fcc.gov |
| Alan Duncan | U.S. Dept. of Treasury-OIG for Tax Assessment | alan.duncan@tigta.treas.gov |
| Sean Fitzgerald* | U.S. Dept. of Education-OIG | sean.fitzgerald@ed.gov |
| Robert Fleming | U.S. General Services Administration-OIG | robert.fleming@gsaig.gov |
| Emily Franko | National Science Foundation-OIG | efranko@nsf.gov |
| Lee Giesbrecht | Dept. of Veterans Affairs-OIG | lee.giesbrecht@va.gov |
| Stephanie Goings | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture-OIG | stephanie.goings@oig.usda.gov |
| Bryan Jones | U.S. Postal Service-OIG | bjones@uspsoig.gov |
| Michael Pickett | Smithsonian-OIG | pickettm@oig.si.edu |
| Melissa Rumsey | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture-OIG | melissa.rumsey@oig.usda.gov |
| Edward Slevin | U.S. Dept. of Education-OIG | edward.slevin@ed.gov |
| Roland Wong | Washington Metro Transit Authority-OIG | rwong@wmata.com |
* Chairperson
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