Jiawei Han

Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Born in Shanghai, China, he received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1979 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Computer Science in 1985.

He served as an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University from 1986 to 1987, and from 1987 to 2001 he worked as Assistant, Associate, Full and University Chair Professor at Simon Fraser University, a public research university in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. In 2001 Han joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He also served as Director of the Information Network Academic Research Center (INARC), supported by the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NSCTA) program of the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL).

Han chaired or served on over 100 program committees of international conferences and workshops, including PC co-chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and he served as Americas coordinator of the 2006 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). He also served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. Han is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.

He received the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award and the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award "For contributions in data mining and knowledge discovery, data warehousing, deductive and object-oriented databases." He was the 2009 winner of the McDowell Award, the highest technical award made by IEEE. Han taught courses CS412—Data Mining and CS512—Advanced Data Mining at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and his course CS412—Data Mining was highly popular among students and was oversubscribed in each offering.

Han published several books and over 500 journal and conference publications. The book he co-authored with Kamber and Pei, "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" (3rd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2011), has been widely used as a textbook worldwide. Selected journal and conference proceedings articles include: with Bo Zhao, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, and Jim Gemmell, "A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration," PVLDB 5(6):550–561, 2012 (also Proc. 2012 Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'12/PVLDB), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2012); and with Bo Zhao, "A Probabilistic Model for Estimating Real-Valued Truth from Conflicting Sources," Proc. of 10th Int. Workshop on Quality in Databases, in conjunction with VLDB 2012 (QDB'12), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2012.