Organizers

Research Track Program Committee
Industrial/Government Track Program Committee

General Chair
Ronny Kohavi - Amazon.com	Yahoo IM (ronnyk)
Program Chairs
Johannes Gehrke - Cornell University
William DuMouchel - AT&T Labs Research
Industrial/Government Track Co-Chairs
John Elder - Elder Research www.datamininglab.com
R. Bharat Rao - Siemens Medical, USA
Panels Chair
Raghu Ramakrishnan - U of Wisconsin at Madison
Tutorials Chair
Mihael Ankerst - Boeing
Workshops Chair
Myra Spiliopoulou - Otto-von-Guericke U Magdeberg
Publicity Chair
Gabor Melli - PredictionWorks
Best Paper Awards Chair
Surajit Chaudhuri - Microsoft Research
Student Awards Chair
David Madigan - Rutgers U
Proceedings Chair
Joydeep Ghosh - U of Texas at Austin
Webmaster
Gabor Melli - PredictionWorks
Local Publicity Chair
Zhaohui Tang - Microsoft Research
Treasurer
Rajesh Parekh - Blue Martini Software
Local Arrangements Chair
Ying Li - Microsoft	(425).703.8739
Sponsorship Chairs
Kamal Ali - Yahoo!
Tom Breur - ING Card
Exhibits Chair
Llew Mason - Blue Martini Software
KDD-Cup Chairs
Rich Caruana - Cornell University
Thorsten Joachims - Cornell University
Registration Chair
Marina Meila - University of Washington
SIGKDD Chair
Won Kim - Cyber Database Solutions, USA

Research Track Program Committee

• Apte, Chid - IBM TJ Watson
• Barbará, Daniel - George Mason U
• Bay, Stephen - Stanford U
• Bayardo, Roberto - IBM Almaden
• Ben-David, Shai - Technion
• Berthold, Michael - U of Konstanz
• Bolton, Richard - KnowledgeBase Marketing
• Brodley, Carla - Purdue U
• Buja, Andreas - U of Pennsylvania
• Buntine, Wray - Ultimode Systems
• Callan, Jamie - Carnegie Mellon U
• Cardie, Claire - Cornell U
• Chakrabarti, Soumen - IIT Bombay
• Chan, Chee-Yong - National U Singapore
• Chirkova, Rada - North Carolina State U
• Clifton, Chris - Purdue U
• Cormode, Graham - Rutgers U
• Craven, Mark - U of Wisconsin at Madison
• Das, Gautam - Microsoft
• De Raedt, Luc - Albert-Ludwigs U Freiburg
• DeGruttola, Victor - Harvard School of Public Health
• Dhillon, Inderjit - U of Texas at Austin
• Dobra, Alin - U of Florida
• Domeniconi, Carlotta - George Mason U
• Elkan, Charles - U of California San Diego
• Elliassi-Rad, Tina - Lawrence Livermore
• Ester, Martin - Simon Fraser U
• Faloutsos, Christos - Carnegie Mellon U
• Fayyad, Usama - DMX Group
• Feldman, Ronen - ClearForest
• Fisher, Doug - Vanderbilt U
• Fukuda, Takeshi - IBM
• Gärtner, Thomas - Fraunhofer, Germany
• Ganti, Vekatesh - Microsoft
• Garofalakis, Minos - Bell Labs
• George, Ed - Wharton Sch., U of Penn
• Getoor, Lise - U of Maryland
• Ghosh, Joydeep - U of Texas at Austin
• Gionis, Aristides - U of Helsinki
• Goethals, Bart - Finland
• Grobelnik, Marko - Jozef Stefan Inst
• Gunopulos, Dimitrios - U of California Riverside
• Haas, Peter - IBM Almaden
• Han, Jiawei - U of Illinois Urbana
• Heckerman, David - Microsoft
• Hinneburg, Alexander - Martin-Luther U Halle/Wittenberg
• Ho, Howard - IBM
• Indyk, Piotr - MIT
• Jensen, David - U Mass
• Jermaine, Chris - U of Florida
• Joachims, Thorsten - Cornell U
• Johnson, Ted - AT&T
• Kargupta, Hillol - U of Maryland Baltimore County
• Karr, Alan - NISS
• Karypis, George - U of Minnesota
• Keim, Daniel - U of Konstanz
• Kempe, David - U of Washington
• Keogh, Eamonn - U of Calif Riverside
• Kitsuregawa, Masaru - U of Tokyo
• Kleinberg, Jon - Cornell U
• Korn, Flip - AT&T
• Kriegel, Hans-Peter - U of Munich
• Kumar, Vipin - U of Minnesota
• Lakshmanan, Laks V.S. - UBC
• Lambert, Diane - Bell Labs
• Landwehr, Jim - Avaya Corp
• Lane, Terran - U of New Mexico
• Lee, Wenke - Georgia Institute of Technology
• Li, Ying - Microsoft
• Liu, Bing - U of Illinois at Chicago
• Liu, Jun - Harvard U
• Loh, Wei-Yin - U of Wisconsin at Madison
• Lu, Hongjun - Hong Kong U of Sci and Tech
• Madigan, David - Rutgers U
• Mannila, Heikki - U of Helsinki
• Masand, Brij - Data Miners Inc
• Mishra, Nina - HP/Stanford U
• Mladenic, Dunja - Jozef Stefan Institute
• Modha, Dharmendra - IBM
• Mooney, Raymond - U of Texas at Austin
• Murua, Alejandro - U of Washington
• Musicant, Dave - Carleton College
• Ng, Raymond - U of British Columbia
• Nychka, Doug - National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Page, David - U of Wisconsin at Madison
• Parthasarathy, Srinivasan - Ohio State U
• Pei, Jian - SUNY Buffalo
• Poole, David - AT&T
• Rastogi, Rajeev - Bell Labs
• Ridgeway, Greg - RAND
• Riedewald, Mirek - Cornell U
• Sander, Joerg - U of Alberta
• Sarawagi, Sunita - IIT Bombay
• Schonlau, Matt - RAND
• Seidl, Thomas - Aachen U
• Shavlik, Jude - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Shim, Kyuseok - Seoul National
• Skalak, David - IBM
• Smyth, Padhraic - U of California Irvine
• Spiliopoulou, Myra - Otto-von-Guericke U Magdeburg
• Stuetzle, Werner - U of Washington
• Toivonen, Hannu - U of Helsinki
• Traina, Agma - U of Sao Paolo
• Tuzhilin, Alexandar - New York U
• Vannucci, Marina - Texas A&M U
• Volinsky, Chris - AT&T
• Wang, Haixun - IBM
• Wang, Wei - U of North Carolina
• Webb, Geoff - Monash U
• Wegman, Ed - George Mason U
• White, Walker - U of Dallas
• Wilks, Allan - AT&T
• Wrobel, Stefan - Fraunhofer AIS/U of Bonn
• Wu, Xindong - U Vermont
• Yang, Jun - Duke U
• Yu, Philip - IBM
• Zaiane, Osmar - U of Alberta
• Zaki, Mohammed - RPI

Industrial/Government Track Program Committee

• Dean Abbott - Abbott Consulting, USA
• Scott Bennett - SRA, USA
• Pavel Berkhin -Yahoo, USA
• Eric Bloedorn - Mitre, USA
• Steve Donoho - Mantas, USA
• Ashutosh Garg - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Paul Hess - Hess Consulting, USA
• Cheryl Howard - Elder Research, USA
• Chandrika Kamath - Lawrence Livermore National Labs, USA
• Bert Kappen - Univ. of Nijmegen / Promedas, Netherlands
• Brendan Kitts - iProspect, USA
• Jacek Koronacki - Polish Academy of Science / NuTech Solutions, Poland
• Kamal Nigam - Intelliseek, USA
• Claudia Pearce - NSA, USA
• Dorian Pyle - Data Miners, USA
• Karl Rexer - Rexer Analytics, USA
• Greg Ridgeway - RAND, USA
• Sigal Sahar - Intel, USA/Israel
• Joseph Sirosh - Fair Isaac, USA
• Volker Tresp - Siemens Research, Germany
• Jaffray Woodriff - Biomind, USA
• Kenji Yamanishi - NEC, Japan