Xindong Wu's Biography

Xindong Wu is a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Vermont, USA. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, Britain. His research interests include data mining, knowledge-based systems, and Web information exploration. He has published over 170 refereed papers in these areas in various journals and conferences, including IEEE TKDE, TPAMI, ACM TOIS, DMKD, KAIS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, KDD, ICDM, and WWW, as well as 21 books and conference proceedings. He won the IEEE ICTAI-2005 Best Paper Award and the IEEE ICDM-2007 Best Theory/Algorithms Paper Runner Up Award. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as well as industrial companies including U.S. West Advanced Technologies and Empact Solutions.

Dr. Wu is the founder and current Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), the founder and current Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS, by Springer), the Founding Chair (2002-2006) of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), and a Series Editor of the Springer Book Series on Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE, by the IEEE Computer Society) between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2008, and served as Program Committee Chair for ICDM '03 (the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) and as Program Committee Co-Chair for KDD-07 (the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

Professor Wu is the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Service Award winner, the 2006 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award winner, and a 2005 Chair Professor in the Changjiang (or Yangtze River) Scholars Programme () at the Hefei University of Technology appointed by the Ministry of Education of China. He has been an invited/keynote speaker at numerous international conferences including JCKBSE08, NSF-NGDM'07, PAKDD-07, IEEE EDOC'06, IEEE ICTAI'04, IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'04/IAT'04, SEKE 2002, and PADD-97.