Jiawei Han (; born August 10, 1949) is a Chinese-American

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and researcher. He currently holds the position of Michael Aiken Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. His research focuses on data mining, text mining, database systems,

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, data mining from spatiotemporal data, Web data, and social/information network data.

Biography

Born in Shanghai on 10 August 1949, Han received his BS from

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in 1979 and his PhD from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

in Computer Science in 1985. Currently he is a professor at the Department of Computer Science in the

, where he teaches courses on Data Mining, Text Mining, and Information Networks. Han served as the Director of Information Network Academic Research Center (INARC) supported by Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NSCTA) program of U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) from 2009–2016, and the Co-Director of KnowEng, a BD2k (Big Data to Knowledge) research center funded by NIH in 2014–2019. Han has chaired or served on over 100 program committees of international conferences and workshops, including PC co-chair of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 1996), 2005 (IEEE), International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Americas Coordinator of 2006 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases ( VLDB). He also served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of

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Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received the 2004 ACM

SIGKDD SIGKDD, representing the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, hosts an influential annual conference. Conference history The KDD Conference grew from KDD (Knowledge Di ...

Innovations Award,Author Biography for Jiawei Han
/ref> and the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award. The book: Han, Kamber and Pei, "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" (3rd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2011) has been popularly used as a textbook worldwide. He was the 2009 winner of the

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, the highest technical award made by

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Bibliography

*''Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition'' (with Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei), The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems, Jim Gray, Series Editor Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011.

References

External links

Data Mining Research Group

Jiawei Han's academic website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Han, Jiawei 1949 births Living people 20th-century American scientists 20th-century American writers 21st-century Chinese scientists 21st-century Chinese writers American computer scientists American technology writers Chinese computer scientists Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese technology writers Data miners Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Scientists from Shanghai Simon Fraser University faculty University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty University of Science and Technology of China alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Writers from Shanghai