Organizing Committee:

General Chair:
Robert Grossman
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago & Open Data Partners, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
Roberto Bayardo
IBM Almaden Research, USA
Kristin Bennett
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Proceedings Chair:
Jaideep Vaidya
Rutgers Univ., USA
Local Arrangements Chairs:
Peter Caron
SPSS, USA
Shirley Connelly
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Bamshad Mobasher
DePaul Univ., USA
Treasurer:
Christopher Clifton
Purdue Univ., USA
Tutorials Chair:
Carla Brodley
Tufts Univ., USA
Panels Chair:
Usama Fayyad
Yahoo Inc., USA
Exhibits Chair:
Gabor Melli
PredictionWorks Inc. USA
Student Awards Chair:
Daniela Raicu
DePaul University, USA
Workshops Chair:
Mohammed Zaki
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Industrial Track Co-Chairs:
Corinna Cortes
Google, USA
Jaideep Srivastava
Univ. of MN, USA
KDD Cup Co-Chairs:
Ying Li
Microsoft, USA
Zijian Zheng
Amazon.com, USA
Best Paper Awards Chair:
Heikki Mannila
Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland
Publicity Chair:
David Duling
SAS, USA
Local Publicity Organizer:
David Turkington
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Webmaster:
Michal Sabala
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Registration Chair:
Ashfaq Khokar
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Sponsorship Chairs:
Gabor Melli
PredictionWorks Inc. USA
Stephen G. Eick
SSS Research and UIC, USA
SIGKDD Chair:
Gregory Piatetsky
KDnuggets


Best Paper Awards Committee:

  • Heikki Mannila - Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland
  • Gautam Das - University of Texas, USA

Research Track Program Committee:

  • Anderson, Brigham - Carnegie Mellon U
  • Aggarwal, Charu - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  • Anderson, Corin - Google
  • Apte, Chid - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Barbara, Daniel - George Mason U
  • Basu, Sugato - U of Texas at Austin
  • Ben-David, Shai - University of waterloo
  • Berthold, Michael - Konstanz Univ, Germany
  • Bi, Jinbo - Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc.
  • Bolton, Richard - KnowledgeBase Marketing Inc.
  • Boulicaut, Jean-Francois - INSA Lyon
  • Buntine, Wray - HIIT
  • Caruana, Rich - Cornell U
  • Chakrabarti, Soumen - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • Cheung, David - U of Hong Kong
  • Chirkova, Rada - North Carolina State U
  • Cook, Diane - U of Texas at Arlington
  • Das, Gautam - U of Texas at Arlington
  • Dhillon, Indejit - U of Texas at Austin
  • Djeraba, Chabane - LIFL - UMR CNRS 8022, France
  • Domeniconi, Carlotta - George Mason U
  • Dy, Jennifer - Northeastern U
  • Eliassi-Rad, Tina - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Elkan, Charles - U of California
  • Embrechts, Mark - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Evfimievski, Alexandre - IBM Almaden Research Center
  • Evgeniou, Theos - INSEAD
  • Faloutsos, Chistos - CMU
  • Fan, Wei - IBM T.J.Watson
  • Feldman, Ronen - Bar-Ilan U
  • Fisher, Doug - Vanderbilt University
  • Flach, Peter - U of Bristol
  • Flake, Gary - Yahoo! Research Labs
  • Fung, Glenn - Siemens Medical Solutions
  • Gaertner, Thomas - Fraunhofer AIS
  • Ganti, Venkatesh - Microsoft Research
  • Gehrke, Johannes - Cornell U
  • Ghani, Rayid - Accenture Technology Labs
  • Ghosh, Joydeep - U of Texas at Austin
  • Gibbons, Phillip - Intel Research Pittsburgh
  • Giles, C. Lee - The Pennsylvania State U
  • Gionis, Aristides - U of Helsinki
  • Goethals, Bart - U of Antwerp
  • Goldberg, Mark - Rensselaer
  • Grobelnik, Marko - Jozef Stefan Institute
  • Guha, Sudipto - U of Pennsylvania
  • Gunopulos, Dimitrios - U of California Riverside
  • Han, Jiawei - UIUC
  • Jensen, David - U of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Jeramine, Chris - U of Florida
  • Joachims, Thorsten - Cornell U
  • Kalita, Jugal - University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  • Kargupta, Hillol - U of Maryland
  • Karypis, George - U of Minnesota
  • Keim, Daniel - U of Constance
  • Kempe, David - U of Southern California
  • Keogh, Eamonn - U of California Riverside
  • Kohavi, Ronny - Amazon.com
  • Kolcz, Aleksander - America Online, Inc
  • Kumar, Vipin - U of Minnesota
  • Lambert, Diane - Bell Labs
  • Latifur, Kahn - U of Texas at Dallas
  • Liu, Bing - UIC
  • Loh, Wei-yin - U of Wisconsin
  • Maclin, Richard - U of Minnesota Duluth
  • Masand, Brij - Data Miners
  • Matias, Yossi - Tel Aviv U & HyperRoll
  • Meo, Rosa - U of Torino
  • Mishra, Nina - HP Labs/ Stanford U
  • Mladenic - J.Stefan Institute
  • Modha, Dharmendra - IBM Almaden
  • Momma, Michinari - Fair Isaac Corporation
  • Motoda, Hiroshi - Osaka U
  • Murua, Alejandro - U of Washington
  • Musicant, Dave - Carleton College
  • Muslea, Ion - SRI International
  • NG, Raymond - U of British Columbia
  • Page, David - U of Wisconsin
  • Parker Jr, D. Scott - UCLA
  • Pavlov, Dmitry - Yahoo! Inc
  • Pei, Jian - Simon Fraser U
  • Pelleg, Dan - Carnegie-Mellon U
  • Petros, Drineas - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Ramakrishnan, Raghu -
  • Ridgeway, Greg - RAND
  • Rudin, Cynthia - New York U
  • Saitta, Lorenza - Universita del Piemonte Orientale
  • Sarawagi, Sunita - IIT Bombay
  • Seidl, Thomas - RWTH Aachen U
  • Shim, Kyuseok - Seoul National U
  • Siebes, Arno - Utrecht U
  • Simoff, Simeon - U of Technology Sydney
  • Simovici, Dan - U of Massachusetts Boston
  • Spiliopoulou, Myra - U of Magdeburg
  • Srikant, Ramakrishnan - IBM Almaden
  • Stolfo, Salvador - Columbia U
  • Stuetzle, Werner - U of Washington
  • Suzuki, Einoshin - Yokohama National U
  • Toivonen, Hannu - U of Helsinki
  • Wang, ke - Simon Fraser U
  • Wang, Wei - U of North Carolina
  • Webb, Geoff - Monash U
  • Wolff, Ran - U of Maryland
  • Wright, N. Rebecca - Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Wu, Xindong - U of Vermont
  • Yu, Philip - IBM Watson
  • Zadrozny, Bianca - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  • Zaiane, Osmar - U of Alberta
  • Zaniolo, Carlo - U of California
  • Zhang, Aidong - State U of New York
  • Zhang, Tong - IBM TJ Watson

Industrial Track Program Committee:

  • Ankerst, Mihael - Allianz
  • Berkhin, Pavel - Yahoo
  • Bloedorn, Eric - Mitre
  • Cohn, David - Google Inc
  • Cooley, Robert - KXEN
  • Crissey, Mary - SAS Institute
  • Dasu, Tamraparni - AT&T Labs - Research
  • Datar, Mayur - Google Inc
  • Deshpande, Anand - Persistent Systems
  • Melli, Gabor - PredictionWorks Inc.
  • Garg, Ashutosh - Google Inc
  • Kamath, Chandrika - Lawrence Livermore National Labs
  • Kitts, Brendan - iProspect.com
  • Pandey, Ajay B. - Government of Maharashtra, India
  • Pearce, Claudia - National Security Agency
  • Petrushin, Valery A. - Accenture Technology Labs
  • Ray, Bonnie - IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Ridgeway, Greg - RAND
  • Rosset, Saharon - IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Rothleder, Neal - Microsoft
  • Sahar, Sigal - Intel
  • Siegel Eric V. - PredictionImpact.com
  • Tresp, Volker - Siemens AG
  • Uthurusamy, Samy - General Motors
  • Vatsavai, Raju - IBM
  • Vayghan, Jamshid - IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Volinsky, Chris - AT&T Labs - Research
  • Wilkinson, Leland - SPSS
  • Yamanishi, Kenji - NEC Corporation
  • Yang, Chunsheng - National Research Council
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