Data Mining: Artificial Intelligence in Data Analysis

Speaker:	Professor Xindong WU
		Chair
		Computer Science Department
		University of Vermont, USA

Title:		"Data Mining: Artificial Intelligence in Data Analysis"

Date:		Thursday, 22 June 2006

Time:		10:30am - 11:30am

Venue:		Room 1505 (near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

Data mining is a fast-growing area. The first Knowledge Discovery in
Databases Workshop was held in August 1989, in conjunction with the 1989
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and this
workshop series became the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining (KDD) in 1995.  There are various data mining conferences
nowadays, and among them, KDD and ICDM (the IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining) are arguably (or un-arguably) the two premier ones in the
field. ICDM was established in 2000, sponsored by the IEEE Computer
Society, and had its first annual meeting in 2001.

This talk will review the topics of interest from ICDM from an AI
perspective, and analyze common topics in data mining and AI, including
key AI ideas that have been used in both data mining and machine learning.
We will also discuss two current research projects on (1) identifying
deception data with impact-sensitive instance ranking, and (2)
user-centered agents for biological information exploration on the Web.
Both projects apply data mining techniques for intelligent data analysis.



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Biography:

Xindong Wu is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Vermont. 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 extensively in these areas in
various journals and conferences, including IEEE TKDE, TPAMI, ACM TOIS,
IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, KDD, ICDM, and WWW, as well as 12 books and conference
proceedings.

Dr. Wu is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering (by the IEEE Computer Society), the founder and current
Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data
Mining (ICDM), an Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information
Systems (by Springer), and a Series Editor of the Springer Book Series on
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP). He was Program
Committee Chair for ICDM '03 (the 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Data Mining) and is Program Committee Co-Chair for KDD-07 (the 13th ACM
SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).
He is the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Service Award winner, and a 2005 Chaired
Professor in the Cheung Kong (or Yangtze River) Scholars Programme at the
Hefei University of Technology sponsored by the Ministry of Education of
China and the Li Ka Shing Foundation. He has been an invited/keynote
speaker at nine international conferences including ICNC'06/FSKD'06, IEEE
ISI-2005, IEEE ICTAI'04, IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'04/IAT'04, SEKE 2002, and
PADD-97.