Organizers

General Chair
Pavel Berkhin - Yahoo!
Program Co-Chairs
Rich Caruana - Cornell University
Xindong Wu - University of Vermont
Exhibits and Demos Chair
Moninder Singh - IBM
Industrial Applications Track Co-Chairs
Venky Ganti - Microsoft
Andrew Tomkins - Yahoo!
KDD Cup Chair
Bing Liu - University of Illinois at Chicago
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
Deepayan Chakrabarti - Yahoo!
Srujana Merugu - Yahoo!
Panel Chair
Vipin Kumar - University of Minnesota
Best Paper Awards Chair
Thorsten Joachims - Cornell University
Posters Chair
Michael R. Berthold - Universitat Konstanz
Proceedings Chair
Scott Gaffney - Yahoo!
Publicity Chair
Mary Crissey - SAS Institute
Registration
Gigi Andrew - Executive Events
Sponsorships Chair
Karl Rexer - Rexer Analytics
Student Awards Chair
Kamal Nigam - Google
Treasurer
Jonathan Becher - Pilot Software
Tutorials Chair
Bart Goethals - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Webmaster
Teresa Mah - Microsoft
Workshops Chair
Qiang Yang - University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Senior Program Committee

  • Charu Aggarwal (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
  • Daniel Barbara (George Mason University, USA)
  • Roberto Bayardo (Google, USA)
  • Chris Clifton (Purdue University, USA)
  • Inderjit Dhillon (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego, USA)
  • Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Tom Fawcett (Stanford Center for the Study of Language and Information, USA)
  • Peter Flach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
  • Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University, USA)
  • H. V. Jagadish (Univ. of Michigan, USA)
  • David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  • Daniel Keim (University of Konstanz, Germany)
  • George Kollios (Boston University, USA)
  • Charles X. Ling (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
  • Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
  • Heikki Mannila (HIIT Basic Research Unit, Finland)
  • Dragos Margineantu (The Boeing Company, USA)
  • Nina Mishra (HP Labs, USA)
  • Dunja Mladenic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
  • David Page (University of Wisconsin, USA)
  • Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  • Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Labs, USA)
  • Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University, Korea)
  • Alexander Tuzhilin (New York University, USA)
  • Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
  • Mohammed Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
  • Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Research Track PC Committee

  • Naoki Abe (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
  • Deepak Agarwal (Yahoo! Research, USA)
  • Gagan Agarwal (Ohio State University, USA)
  • Aijun An (York University, Canada)
  • Periklis Andritsos (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Chid Apte (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
  • Hiroki Arimura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  • Vassilis Athitsos (Boston University, USA)
  • Sugato Basu (SRI International, USA)
  • Rohan Baxter (ATO, Australia)
  • Jean-Francois Boulicaut (INSA Lyon, France)
  • Paul Bradley (Apollo Data Technologies, USA)
  • Justin Brickell (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Carla Brodley (Tufts University, USA)
  • Toon Calders (Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands)
  • Soumen Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
  • Keith Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
  • Philip Chan (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Edward Chang (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Yixin Chen (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
  • Yiu-ming Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
  • Junghoo Cho (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Dorin Comaniciu (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
  • Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
  • Honghua Dai (Deakin University, Australia)
  • Tamraparni Dasu (ATT, USA)
  • Ian Davidson (SUNY - Albany, USA)
  • Jason Davis (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Umesh Dayal (HP labs, USA)
  • Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
  • Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece)
  • Alin Dobra (University of Florida, USA)
  • Carlotta Domeniconi (George Mason University, USA)
  • Guozhu Dong (Wright State University, USA)
  • Petros Drineas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
  • Jennifer Dy (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
  • Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • Alexandre Evfimievski (IBM Almaden, USA)
  • Terzi Evimaria (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Wei Fan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
  • Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Ohio State University, USA)
  • Xiaoli Fern (Oregon State University, USA)
  • George Forman (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA)
  • Eibe Frank (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
  • Benjamin C. M. Fung (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • Efstratios Gallopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
  • Matjaz Gams (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
  • Minos Garofalakis (Yahoo! Research and UC-Berkeley)
  • Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University, USA)
  • Rayid Ghani (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
  • Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
  • Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
  • Bart Goethals (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Ananth Grama (Purdue University, USA)
  • Alexander Gray (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Sudipto Guha (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside, USA)
  • Marios Hadjieleftheriou (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
  • Howard Hamilton (University of Regina, Canada)
  • Jiawei Han (UIUC, USA)
  • Monika Henzinger (Ecole Poytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Alexander Hinneburg (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
  • Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA)
  • Tamas Horvath (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
  • Wynne Hsu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Tony Hu (Drexel University, USA)
  • Chris Jermaine (University of Florida, USA)
  • Tamer Kahveci (University of Florida, USA)
  • Hillol Kargupta (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
  • George Karypis (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA)
  • Hiroyuki Kawano (Nanzan University, Japan)
  • Eamonn Keogh (University of California Riverside, USA)
  • Kristian Kersting (Albert-Ludwigs University, Germany)
  • Joerg-Uwe Kietz (kdlabs AG, Switzerland)
  • Arno Knobbe (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
  • Ron Kohavi (Microsoft, USA)
  • Donald Kossman (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
  • Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Nick Koudas (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Peer Kr�ger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit�t M�nchen, Germany)
  • Nicholas Kushmerick (QL2 Software, Inc., USA)
  • Longin Jan Latecki (Temple University, USA)
  • Wenke Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Kristen LeFevre (The University of Wisconsin, USA)
  • Chen Li (UC Irvine, USA)
  • Jinyan Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
  • Ming Li (University of Waterloo, School of Computer Science, Canada)
  • Ping Li (Stanford University, USA)
  • Tao Li (Florida International University, USA)
  • Jessica Lin (George Mason University, USA)
  • T.Y. Lin (San Jose State University, USA)
  • Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA)
  • Elsa Loekito (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Bo Long (SUNY at Binghamton, USA)
  • Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech, USA)
  • Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
  • Rich Maclin (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA)
  • Michael Mahoney (Yahoo! Research Labs, USA)
  • Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong-Kong, China)
  • Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece)
  • Chris Meek (Microsoft Research, USA)
  • Sharad Mehrotra (UC Irvine, USA)
  • Prem Melville (IBM Research, USA)
  • Rosa Meo (University of Torino, Italy)
  • Katharina Morik (University of Dortmund, Germany)
  • Rajeev Motwani (Stanford University, USA)
  • David Musicant (Carleton College, USA)
  • Mirco Nanni (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy)
  • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA)
  • Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
  • Balaji Padmanabhan (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Themis Palpanas (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Spiros Papadimitriou (IBM T.J. Watson, USA)
  • Haesun Park (Georgia Institute of Technology. USA)
  • Srinivasan Parthasarathy (The Ohio State University, USA)
  • Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets, USA)
  • Neoklis Polyzotis (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
  • Kunal Punera (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Vijay Raghavan (Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
  • Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech, USA)
  • Zbigniew W. Ras (Univ. of North Carolina, USA)
  • Matthew Rattigan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  • Soumya Ray (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Romer Rosales (Siemens Medical Solutions, USA)
  • Celine Rouveirol (LIPN, France)
  • Mehran Sahami (Google, USA)
  • Lorenza Saitta (Universit� del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
  • Joerg Sander (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Cordelia Schmid (INRIA, France)
  • Michele Sebag (Universite Paris-Sud, CNRS, France)
  • Cyrus Shahabi (USC, USA)
  • Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Christian Shelton (UCR, USA)
  • Ambuj Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland)
  • Myra Spiliopoulou (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
  • Nicolas Spyratos (University of Paris-Sud, France)
  • Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
  • W. Nick Street (The University of Iowa, USA)
  • Jimeng Sun (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan)
  • Pang-Ning Tan (Michigan State University, USA)
  • Dacheng Tao (University of London, Birkbeck, UK)
  • Bhavani M. Thuraisingham (UT Dallas, USA)
  • Hannu Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Luis Torgo (LIACC/FEP-University of Porto, Portugal)
  • Panayiotis Tsaparas (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane University, Japan)
  • Anthony Tung (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah, USA)
  • Alessandro Verri (Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Italy)
  • Michail Vlachos (IBM Research, USA)
  • Chris Volinsky (AT&T Labs, Inc., USA)
  • Haixun Wang (IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA)
  • Jason Wang (NJIT, USA)
  • Ke Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • Wei Wang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
  • Graham Williams (Togaware Data Mining, Australia)
  • Rudiger Wirth (Daimler-Chrysler AG Research and Technology, Germany)
  • Weng-Keen Wong (Oregon State University, USA)
  • Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer IAIS and University Bonn, Germany)
  • Xintao Wu (UNC Charlotte, USA)
  • Dong Xin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Hui Xiong (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA)
  • Jiong Yang (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
  • Ying Yang (Monash University, Australia)
  • Y. Y. Yao (University of Regina, Canada)
  • Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, USA)
  • Lei Yu (Binghamton University, USA)
  • Philip S Yu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)
  • Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Carlo Zaniolo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Gerson Zaverucha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
  • Shichao Zhang (UTS, Australia)
  • Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
  • Xingquan Zhu (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
  • Industrial Track PC Committee

  • Charlie Berger (Oracle)
  • Eric Bloedorn (Mitre)
  • Mathias Blume (Fair Isaac)
  • Abhinandan Das (Google)
  • Mayur Datar (Google)
  • Ashutosh Garg (UIUC)
  • Rayid Ghani (Accenture)
  • Bruce Hendrickson (Sandia Labs)
  • Matthew Hurst (Nielsen NetRatings)
  • Christian Konig (Microsoft)
  • Jacek Koronacki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • Ying Li (Microsoft)
  • Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks)
  • Kamal Nigam (Google)
  • Rajesh Parekh (Yahoo!)
  • Ed Pednault (IBM)
  • Valery A. Petrushin (Accenture)
  • Tina-Eliassi Rad (Lawrence Livermore labs)
  • Ganesh Ramesh (Microsoft)
  • R. Bharat Rao (Siemens)
  • Bonnie Ray (IBM)
  • Duncan Ross (NCR)
  • Saharon Rosset (IBM)
  • Joseph Sirosh (Amazon)
  • Volker Tresp (Siemens)
  • Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors)
  • Jamshid Vayghan (IBM)
  • Kenji Yamanishi (NEC)
  • Chungsheng Yang (National Research Council)
  • Zijian Zheng (Microsoft)
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