2023 SIGKDD Service Award: Hui Xiong

Dr. Xiong serves as a co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS). He has served regularly on the organization and program committees of numerous conferences, including as a Program Co-Chair of the Industrial and Government Track for the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), a Program Co-Chair for the IEEE 2013 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), a General Co-Chair for the IEEE 2015 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and a Program Co-Chair of the Research Track for the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2018).

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2023 SIGKDD Innovation Award: Jure Leskovec

ACM SIGKDD is pleased to announce that Jure Leskovec is the winner of its 2023 Innovation Award. Jure Leskovec is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is affiliated with the Stanford AI Lab, Machine Learning Group and the Center for Research on Foundation Models. In the past, he served as a Chief Scientist at Pinterest and was an investigator at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. Most recently, he co-founded machine learning startup Kumo.AI. Leskovec pioneered the field of Graph Neural Networks and co-authored PyG, the most widely-used graph neural network library. Research from his group has been used by many countries to fight COVID-19 pandemic, and has been incorporated into products at Facebook, Pinterest, Uber, YouTube, Amazon, and more.

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2022 SIGKDD Service Award: Charu Aggarwal

Dr. Charu Aggarwal has made significant service contributions to conferences and journals in the field of data mining. He has served as a program chair of ACM KDD Conference in 2016 and the IEEE ICDM Conference in 2015. He is an editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, and is also an editor-in-chief of ACM Books. He previously served as the editor-in-chief of ACM SIGKDD Explorations, which is the premier newsletter of ACM SIGKDD.

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2022 SIGKDD Innovation Award: Huan Liu

ACM SIGKDD is pleased to announce that Dr. Huan Liu is the winner of its 2022 Innovation Award.  He is a professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe and is recognized for his outstanding and influential contributions to the foundation, principles and applications of social media mining and feature selection for data mining.

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SIGKDD Honors Career Achievements in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

SIGKDD Honors Career Achievements in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

KDD 2021, the premier interdisciplinary conference in data science, today announced the recipients of the 2021 ACM SIGKDD Awards for exemplary individuals and research teams in data science, machine learning, big data and artificial intelligence. Ahead of the organization's annual conference on

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2021 SIGKDD Test of Time Award Winners

The SIGKDD Test of Time Award recognizes outstanding papers from past KDD Conferences beyond the last decade that have had an important impact on the data mining research community.

 

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ACM SIGKDD dissertation awards recognize outstanding work done by graduate students in the areas of data science, machine learning and data mining. 

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2021 SIGKDD Service Award: Shipeng Yu

Shipeng Yu has been leading teams and driving AI innovations across industries such as social network, manufacturing, service, and healthcare. With a strong research background and an entrepreneurial mindset, he is enthusiastic about creative thinking, innovative business models, and great team work. 

Currently he leads the Communications AI team at LinkedIn, which owns the major AI engine driving engagement growth and member retention at LinkedIn. The team develops innovative AI algorithms, builds scalable AI pipeline and platforms, makes great business impact, and also actively contributes to research communities. 

Shipeng strongly believes in giving back to the research community. He served as General Chair for KDD 2017. He is currently the Sponsorship Director for SIGKDD, overseeing the sponsorship effort for the annual KDD conferences and other Data Mining community activities. 

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2021 SIGKDD Innovation Award: Johannes Gehrke

Johannes Gehrke is a Technical Fellow and the Managing Director of Research at Redmond and the CTO and head of machine learning for the Intelligent Communications and Conversations Cloud (IC3), which powers Microsoft Teams. Until June 2020, he was leading architecture and machine learning for IC3. Johannes’ research interests are in the areas of database systems, distributed systems, and machine learning. He has received a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Arthur P. Sloan Fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award, the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, and he is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. Johannes co-authored the undergraduate textbook Database Management Systems (McGrawHill (2002), currently in its third edition), used at universities all over the world. He is a member of the ACM SIGKDD Executive Committee. From 1999 to 2015, Johannes was on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University where he graduated 25 PhD students, and from 2005 to 2008, he was Chief Scientist at FAST Search and Transfer.

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2021 ACM SIGKDD Election Results

2021 ACM SIGKDD Election Results

(For the term of 1 July 2021 – 30 June 2023)

Chair

Wei Wang
UCLA
Email: weiwang@cs.ucla.edu

Secretary-Treasurer

Hui Xiong
Rutgers University
Email: xionghui@gmail.com

Executive Committee

Mohammed J. Zaki
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Email: zaki@cs.rpi.edu

Thorsten Joachims
Cornell

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2021 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award: Call for Nominations

2021 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award: Call for Nominations

This annual award by ACM SIGKDD recognizes outstanding research by doctoral candidates in the field of data science, data mining and knowledge discovery. The KDD Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the KDD conference, and their dissertations will have

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2020 SIGKDD Test of Time Award Winners

The SIGKDD Test of Time Award recognizes outstanding papers from past KDD Conferences beyond the last decade that have had an important impact on the data mining research community.

 

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