Osmar R. Zaiane

Osmar R. Zaiane (born April 11, 1965, in Bad Kissingen, Germany) is a researcher, computer scientist, professor at the University of Alberta specializing in data mining and machine learning. He was the secretary treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) from 2009 to 2012 [1] and treasurer of the ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics. He 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]

Osmar R. Zaiane
Born (1965-04-11) 11 April 1965
Bad Kissingen, Germany
Alma materSimon Fraser University
AwardsIEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award 2009, ACM SIGKDD Service Award 2010
Scientific career
FieldsData Mining, Machine Learning
InstitutionsUniversity of Alberta
Doctoral advisorJiawei Han

A former PhD student of Professor Jiawei Han, he did his PhD on knowledge discovery from data at Simon Fraser University.[4] Since 1999 he has been a professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta in Canada, and is the scientific director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), formerly known as Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning (AICML), since 2009.[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". Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  2. SIGKDD Explorations Officers
  3. ACM SIGKDD Explorations
  4. Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning website
  6. "IEEE Data Mining Awards". Archived from the original on 2017-08-18. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  7. "ACM SIGKDD Service Awards". Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
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