ADMA 2006 Keynote Speeches

ADMA06 has invited three prominent researchers in data mining and artificial intelligence areas. Their contributions are world-widely recognized. Their talks will cover the most interesting research topics and the current progress in these research areas. All of them are well-known world-class presenters. Their talks will bring a highlight of the conference. Based on the success of the first International Conferences on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, many international researchers will join them in Xi’An China to discuss the current hot issues in data mining researches.

Topic:    Warehousing and Mining Massive RFID Data Sets  (Presentation Slides)

Speaker: Jiawei Han Professor, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic: Data Strategy and the New Sciences Underlying the Internet  (Presentation Slides)

Speaker: Usama Fayyad, Yahoo Chief Data Officer and Sr. Vice President, Strategic Data Solutions Group

Topic: Self-Organising Map Techniques for Graph Data Applications to Clustering of XML Documents  (Presentation Slides)

Speaker: Ah Chung Tsoi, Executive Director, Australian Research Council, Math, Information & Comm Sciences

Jiawei Han Professor, Department of Computer Science Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rm 2132, Siebel Center for Computer Science 201 N. Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL 61801, USA E-mail: hanj[at]cs.uiuc.edu Web Page: http://www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu/~hanj/

Professor Jiawei Han is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he was an Endowed University Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Jiawei Han received the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has been working on research into data mining, data warehousing, stream data mining, spatial and multimedia data mining, and bio-medical data mining, with over 300 conference and journal publications. He has chaired or served in over 100 program committees of international conferences and workshops, including ACM SIGKDD Conferences (2001 best paper award chair, 2002 student award chair, 1996 PC co-chair), SIAM-Data Mining Conferences (2001 and 2002 PC co-chair), ACM SIGMOD Conferences (2000 exhibit program chair), International Conferences on Data Engineering (2004 and 2002 PC vice-chair), International Conferences on Data Mining (2005 PC co-chair) and International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (2006 VLDB Americas Chair). He also served or is serving on the editorial boards for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Executive Committee of ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). Jiawei has received three IBM Faculty Awards (2002-2006), the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2002 International Conference on Data Mining, ACM Service Award (1999) and ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award (2004). He is an ACM Fellow (since 2003). He is the first author of the textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001).

Usama Fayyad Web Page: http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/executives/fayyad.html

Dr. Usama Fayyad is Yahoo!'s chief data officer and senior vice president of the Strategic Data Solutions group. Fayyad is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data policies and systems, prioritizing data investments, and managing the Company's data processing infrastructure and analysis. The analysis and management of data within Fayyad's group enables Yahoo! to ensure customer satisfaction and develop innovative products and services that are essential to consumers' lives.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Fayyad co-founded and led the DMX Group, a data mining and data strategy consulting company. In early 2000, he co-founded and served as CEO of digiMine Inc. (now Revenue Science, Inc.), a data analysis and data mining company that built, operated and hosted data warehouses and analytics for some of the world's largest enterprises in online publishing, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services.

Fayyad's professional experience also includes five years spent leading the data mining and exploration group at Microsoft Research and building the data mining products for Microsoft's server division. From 1989 to 1996 Fayyad held a leadership role at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where his work in the analysis and exploration of scientific databases gathered from observatories, remote-sensing platforms and spacecraft garnered him the top research excellence award that Caltech awards to JPL scientists, as well as a U.S. Government medal from NASA.

Fayyad earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan (1991), and also holds BSE's in both electrical and computer engineering (1984); an MSE in computer science and engineering (1986); and an M.Sc. in mathematics (1989). He has published over 100 technical articles on the field of data mining, edited two influential books on the subject and launched the primary scientific journal in the field while serving as editor-in-chief. Fayyad also launched and edited the primary newsletter in the technical community, and regularly delivers addresses and keynotes at government, industry and academic conferences around the world.

Ah Chung Tsoi Executive Director Australian Research Council Mathematics, Information and Communications Sciences Phone: +61 2 6284 6697 Fax: +61 2 6126 4050 Email: ahchung.tsoi@arc.gov.au Web page: http://www.arc.gov.au/about_arc/executive.htm

Professor Ah Chung Tsoi was appointed as Executive Director for the ARC’s Mathematics, Information and Communications inter-disciplinary cluster in February 2004.

Professor Tsoi's work in artificial intelligence is internationally known. He is one of few experts in the world working in the area of adaptive processing of data structures. His work has a range of practical applications relating to image processing, structure of the world wide web, and design of internet search engines.

Professor Ah Chung Tsoi comes to the ARC from the University of Wollongong, where he is the foundation Pro Vice-Chancellor (Information Technology and Communications).

In 1997, the Health Insurance Commission team, which Professor Tsoi has been instrumental in setting up and has been consulting and working with since 1989, was awarded the Prime Minister's Inaugural Award for Public Sector Innovation for work on the application of neural networks to detect fraud and inappropriate practices.

Professor Tsoi’s ARC experience includes membership of the Priority Panel on Cognitive Science, the Institutional Grants Committee, and the Committee on International and National Collaboration. He was the Chair of the ARC Mathematics, Information and Communications Expert Advisory Committee from 2001 to 2002.