Jiawei Han

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Jiawei Han
BornAugust 10, 1949 (1949-08-10) (age 72)
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Science and Technology of China[citation needed]
Scientific career
FieldsData Mining
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Simon Fraser University
Doctoral advisorProfessor Larry Travis
Notable students

Jiawei Han (Chinese: 韩家炜; born August 10, 1949) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and writer[citation needed]. He currently holds the position of Abel Bliss Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1] His research focuses on data mining, data warehousing, database systems, data mining from spatiotemporal data, Web data, and social/information network data.

Biography[]

Born in Shanghai on 10 August 1949,[2] Han received his BS from University of Science and Technology of China in 1979[citation needed] and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Computer Science in 1985.[3]

Currently he is a professor at the Department of Computer Science in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches He teaches courses CS412 - Data Mining and CS512 - Advanced Data Mining. Han is also 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).

Han has chaired or served on over 100 program committees of international conferences and workshops, including PC co-chair of 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 ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.

He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award,[4] 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 McDowell Award, the highest technical award made by IEEE.

Bibliography[]

  • Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition (with Micheline Kamber), The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems, Jim Gray, Series Editor Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011. ISBN 1-55860-901-6

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