Osmar R. Zaiane (born April 11, 1965, in

Bad Kissingen Bad Kissingen is a German spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and seat of the district Bad Kissingen. Situated to the south of the Rhön Mountains on the Franconian Saale river, it is one of the health resorts, which be ...

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) is a researcher,

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, professor at the

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specializing in data mining and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

. He was the secretary treasurer of the

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(ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (

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) from 2009 to 2012 and treasurer of the ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics. He served as the editor-in-chief of the SIGKDD Explorations publication from 2008 to 2010. He was also the associate editor of the same publication from 2004 to 2007. A former PhD student of Professor

Jiawei Han Jiawei Han (; born August 10, 1949) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and researcher. He currently holds the position of Michael Aiken Chair Professorship, Michael Aiken Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Unive ...

, he did his PhD on knowledge discovery from data at

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...

. Since 1999 he has been a professor in the Department of Computing Science at the

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, and is the scientific director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), formerly known as Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning (AICML), since 2009. In 2009 he obtained the

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ICDM Outstanding Service Award, as well as the 2010 ACM

Service Award the following year.

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External links

Osmar Zaiane's academic website

German computer scientists People from Bad Kissingen University of Alberta faculty 1965 births Living people Data miners Université Laval alumni {{compu-scientist-stub