IEEE Data Mining Awards

IEEE ICDM Steering Committee Awards: 2010 Nominations by August 15, 2010.

2009

• IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: Heikki Mannila, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. [Citation]
• IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Osmar R. Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada. [Citation]
• IEEE ICDM 2009 Best Paper Awards:
  • Best Theoretical/Algorithms Paper Award: Deepak Agarwal, Bee-Chung Chen, and Pradheep Elango, Explore/Exploit Schemes for Web Content Optimization
  • Best Application Paper Award: Nikos Pelekis, Ioannis Kopanakis, Evangelos Kotsifakos, Elias Frentzos, and Yannis Theodoridis, Clustering Trajectories of Moving Objects in an Uncertain World
  • Best Student Paper Awards: Michael Hay, Chao Li, Gerome Miklau, and David Jensen, Accurate Estimation of the Degree Distribution of Private Networks
• ICDM '09 Best Paper Runners Up:
  • Theoretical/Algorithms Category: Jennifer Neville, Brian Gallagher, and Tina Eliassi-Rad, Evaluating Statistical Tests for Within-Network Classifiers of Relational Data
  • Applications Category: U Kang, Charalampos Tsourakakis, and Christos Faloutsos, PEGASUS: A Peta-Scale Graph Mining System - Implementation and Observations
  • Student Paper: Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Chenguang Zhu, Gang Wang, Haixun Wang, and Zheng Chen, Inverse Time Dependency in Convex Regularized Learning
• ICDM '09 Data Mining Contest:
  • Supervised Learning Match Expert Award $2000 (US): TBA
  • Unsupervised Learning Within and Between Subject Award $2000 (US): TBA
  • Contest Crown Award $1000 (US): TBA.
• Student Travel Awards (US$750 each for NSF Travel Awards and US$1000 each for IBM Research Travel Awards)
  • Forrest Briggs
  • Guangyun Chen (IBM Research Travel Award)
  • Debasish Das
  • Sandipan Dey
  • Qiang Fu
  • Zhen Guo
  • Michael Hay
  • U Kang
  • Haibing Lu
  • Zhenyu Lu
  • Rengiang Min (IBM Research Travel Award)
  • Debprakash Patnaik
  • Ning Ruan
  • Hanhuai Shan
  • Yuan Shi
  • Aaron Smalter
  • Fan Wang
  • Xiang Wang
  • Zhuang Wang
  • Wei Xu
  • Xiao Yu
  • Wenjun Zhou

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