IEEE ICDM Awards

IEEE Data Mining Awards

IEEE ICDM Steering Committee Awards: 2009 Nominations by August 15, 2009.

2008

IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA. [Citation]
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA. [Citation]
IEEE ICDM 2008 Best Paper Awards:
- Best Theoretical/Algorithms Paper Award: “Scalable Tensor Decomposition for Multi-Aspect Data Mining”, by Tamara Kolda and Jimeng Sun
- Best Application Paper Award: “Interpreting PET Scans by Structured Patient Data: A Data Mining Case Study in Dementia Research”, by Andreas Hapfelmeier, Jana Schmidt, Marianne Mueller, Robert Perneczky, Alexander Drzezga, Alexander Kurz, and Stefan Kramer
- Best Student Paper Awards: “A Randomized Approach for Approximating the Number of Frequent Sets”, by Mario Boley and Henrik Grosskreutz
ICDM '08 Best Paper Runners Up:
- Theoretical/Algorithms Category: “Isolation Forest”, by Fei Tony Liu, Kai Ming Ting, and Zhi-Hua Zhou
- Applications Category: “Web Mining for Understanding Stories through Graph Visualization”, by Ilija Subasic and Bettina Berendt
Data Mining Contest 2008
- Winner of the Contest Crown
  - Wei Fan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  - ErHeng Zhong, Sun Yat-Sen University
  - Sihong Xie, Sun Yat-Sen University
  - Yuzhao Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University
  - Kun Zhang, Xavier University of Louisiana
  - Jing Peng, Montclair State University
  - Jiangtao Ren, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- Winner of the Most Muscular
  - Zhongfeng Zhang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Student Travel Awards (US$500 each)
- Dimitrios Mavroeidis (AUEB)
- Denny (Australian National University)
- Wilhelmiina Hamalainen (University of Joensuu)
- Vineet Chaoji (RPI)
- Hanhuai Shan (Minnesota)
- TaeHyun Hwang (Minnesota)
- Mayank Lahiri (Illinois)
- Jingu Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Akhmed Umyarov (Stern School NYU)
- Vann Chandola (UMN)
- Stephen Bach (Georgetown)
- Guan Wang (Syracuse University)
- Yang Song (Pennsylvania)
- Paramveer Dhillon (Pennsylvania)
- Qiang Fu (Minnesota)
- Andrew Fast (University of MA Amherst)
- YongChul Kwon (Washington)
- Xia Ning (Minnesota)
- Habiba (Illinois)
- Arun S. Maiya (Illinois)
- Adam Oliner (Stanford)
- Barzan Mozafari (UCLA)
- Hongning Wang (Tsinghua University)
- Liping Liu (Nanjing University)
- BingBing Ni (University of Singapore)
- Hongbo Deng (Hong Kong)

2007

IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: J. Ross Quinlan, Rulequest Research, Australia. [Citation]
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA. [Citation]
IEEE ICDM '07 Best Paper Awards:
- Theoretical/Algorithms Category: Disk Aware Discord Discovery: Finding Unusual Time Series in Terabyte Sized Datasets, by Dragomir Yankov, Eamonn Keogh, and Umaa Rebbapragada
- Applications Category: Rule Cubes for Causal Investigations, by Axel Blumenstock, Franz Schweiggert, and Markus Mueller
ICDM '07 Best Paper Runners Up:
- Theoretical/Algorithms Category: GMDA: General Averaged Divergence Analysis, by Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li, Xindong Wu, and Stephen Maybank
- Applications Category: Improving Text Classification by Using Encyclopedia Knowledge, by Pu Wang, Jian Hu, Hua-Jun Zeng, Lijun Chen, and Zheng Chen
ICDM 2007 Data Mining Contest Winning Teams:
(see http://www.cse.ust.hk/~qyang/ICDMDMC07/ for more details)
- Task 1
  Winner: IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory Team, Japan.
  Members: Hisashi Kashima, Shoko Suzuki, Shohei Hido, Yuta Tsuboi, Toshihiro Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Ide, Rikiya Takahashi, and Akira Tajima. Slides
  First Runner Up: Yuichi Katori, University of Tokyo and JST, Japan.
  Second Runner Up: d-cup Team.
  Members: Yang Qu and Chun Li, Tsinghua University, China.
- Task 2
  Winner: Feng Guo, Machine Learning Center, Hebei University, China.
  First Runner Up: MCT.ICT Team.
  Members: Juan Qi , Zhuo Sun, Junfa Liu and Yiqiang Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
  Second Runner Up: IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory Team, Japan.
  Members: Hisashi Kashima, Shoko Suzuki, Shohei Hido, Yuta Tsuboi, Toshihiro Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Ide, Rikiya Takahashi, and Akira Tajima.
IEEE ICDM 2007 Student Travel Awards (US$500 each) provided by IBM Research, Microsoft adCenter Labs, and IEEE TCII:
- Dragomir Yankov, University of California Riverside, USA
- Deng Cai, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Yanhua Chen, Wayne State University, USA
- Bjoern Bringmann, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Netherlands
- Pu Wang, Peking University, China
- Junjie Wu, Tsinghua University, China
- Wei Jin, University at Buffalo, USA
- Chibuike Muoh, Kent State University, USA
- Frederik Janssen, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Qian Wan, York University, Canada
- Ding Zhou, Penn State University, USA
- Hanhuai Shan, University of Minnesota, USA
- Tianyi Jiang, New York University, USA
- Mohammad Al Hasan, RPI, USA
- Benjamin Arai, University of California Riverside, USA
- Shing-Kit Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- David Cieslak, University of Notre Dame, USA
- Jing Gao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Huahai He, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
- Vasileios Kandylas, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Liang Xiong, Tsinghua University, China
- Ardian Kristanto Peornomo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Claudio Lucchese, Ca' Foscari University, Italy
- Daniele Quercia, University College, London, UK

2006

IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. [Citation]
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA. [Citation]
IEEE ICDM '06 Best Research Paper: Fast Random Walk with Restart and Its Applications,
by Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos, and Jia-Yu Pan
IEEE ICDM '06 Best Application Paper: Forecasting Skewed Biased Stochastic Ozone Days: Analyses and Solutions
by Kun Zhang, Wei Fan, Xiaojing Yuan, Ian Davidson, and Xiangshang Li
IEEE ICDM 2006 Student Travel Awards (US$500 each) provided by IBM Research, Microsoft adCenter Labs, and IEEE TCII:
- Korinna Bade, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
- Bing Tian Dai, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Byron Gao, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Eveline Hoekx, University of Hasselt, Belgium
- Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University, China
- Gabriela Moise, University of Alberta, Canada
- Parag Singla, University of Washington, USA
- Atulya Velivelli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Florian Verhein, University of Sydney, Australia
- Nikil Wale, University of Minnesota, USA
- Kun Zhang, Tulane University, USA
- Ji Zhang, Dalhousie University, Canada

2005

IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Vijay V. Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA.
IEEE ICDM 2005 Best Paper Award: Mining Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence Patterns with Gap Constraints
by Xiaonan Ji, James Bailey, and Guozhu Dong
2005 IEEE ICDM Data Mining Practice Prize - Sponsored by Elder Research, Inc.
- First Place: R. Bharat Rao, Siemens Medical
- Second Place: Dave DeBarr and Zach Eyler-Walker, MITRE Corporation
IEEE ICDM 2005 Student Travel Awards (US$500 each) provided by IBM Research:
- Arnab Bhattacharya, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Huiping Cao, University of Hong Kong
- Varun Chandola, University of Minnesota
- Xiaonan Ji, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Raz Tamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2004

IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: David Hand, Imperial College, UK.
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan.
IEEE ICDM 2004 Best Paper Award: Non-Redundant Data Clustering
by David Gondek and Thomas Hofmann
IEEE ICDM 2004 Student Travel Awards (US$500 each) provided by IBM Research:
- David Gondek, Brown University
- Robert Gwadera, Purdue University
- Niina Haiminen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
- Jennifer Neville, University of Massachusetts
- Pei Sun, University of Sydney

2003

IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA.
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Alex Tuzhilin, New York University, USA.
IEEE ICDM 2003 Best Paper Award: On the Privacy Preserving Properties of Random Data Perturbation Techniques
by Hillol Kargupta, Souptik Datta, Qi Wang, and Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar
IEEE ICDM 2003 Student Travel Awards (US$500 each) provided by IBM Research:
- Francesco Bonchi, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
- Reuven Kashi, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Jeremy Kotler, Georgetown, USA
- Jessica Lin, University of California, Riverside, USA
- Taneli Mielikäinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Robert Munro, University of Sydney, Australia
- Cheong Hee Park, University of Minnesota, USA
- Kang Peng, Temple University, USA
- Raymong Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Jieping Ye, University of Minnesota, USA

2002

IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, Japan.
IEEE ICDM 2002 Best Paper Award: Convex Hull Ensemble Machine
by Yongdai Kim
IEEE ICDM 2002 Best Application Paper Award: Efficient Discovery of Common Substructures in Macromolecules
by Srinivasan Parthasarathy and Matt Coatney

2001

IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA.
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Drexel University, USA.
IEEE ICDM 2001 Best Paper Award: A Tight Upper Bound on the Number of Candidate Patterns
by Floris Geerts, Bart Goethals, and Jan Van den Bussche
IEEE ICDM 2001 Best Application Paper Award: Discovering Similar Patterns for Characterizing Time Series in a Medical Domain
by Fernando Alonso, Juan P. Caraca-Valente, Loic Martinez, and Cesar Montes

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