Jiawei Han, Professor of Computer Science, UIUC
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Jiawei Han is a full professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1985. He has been researching into data 2 mining, data warehousing, database systems, stream data mining, spatiotemporal and multimedia data mining, biological data mining, social network analysis, text and Web mining, and software bug mining, with over 300 conference and journal publications. He has served on the program committees for most major international conferences on data mining and database systems, and served as program committee co-chair or vice-chair for ACM SIGKDD Conference, SIAM-Data Mining Conference, International Conferences on Data Engineering, and International Conferences on Data Mining. He also served or is serving on the editorial boards for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. He is currently serving as the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), and on the Board of Directors for the Executive Committee of ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). Professor Han has received three IBM Faculty Awards, the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2002 International Conference on Data Mining, ACM Service Award (1999) and ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (2004), and IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2005). He is an ACM Fellow (2004). His book Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (Morgan Kaufmann) has been popularly used as textbook for data mining courses.
