Osmar R. Zaiane

Osmar R. Zaiane
Born	April 11, 1965 (1965-04-11) Bad Kissingen, Germany
Fields	Data Mining, Machine Learning
Institutions	University of Alberta
Doctoral advisor	Professor Jiawei Han

Osmar R. Zaiane (born April 11, 1965 in Bad Kissingen, Germany) is a renowned researcher, computer scientist, Professor at the University of Alberta specializing in Data Mining and Machine Learning. He is currently the Secretary Treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)^[1] and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the SIGKDD Explorations publication from 2008 to 2010.^[2] He was also the Associate Editor of the same publication from 2004 to 2007.^[3]

A former PhD student of Professor Jiawei Han, he did his PhD on knowledge discovery from data at Simon Fraser University.^[4] He is since 1999 a professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta in Canada, and is the Scientific Director of the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning.^[5] In 2009 he obtained the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award,^[6] as well as the 2010 ACM SIGKDD Service Award the following year.^[7]

References

1. ^ SIGKDD Organization
2. ^ SIGKDD Explorations Officers
3. ^ ACM SIGKDD Explorations
4. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. ^ Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning website
6. ^ IEEE Data Mining Awards
7. ^ ACM SIGKDD Service Awards

External links

• Osmar Zaiane's academic website
• Academic Genealogy

Persondata
Name	Zaiane, Osmar R.
Alternative names
Short description	German computer scientist
Date of birth	April 11, 1965
Place of birth	Bad Kissingen, Germany
Date of death
Place of death