SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM18)

About the Conference

Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data – the core of modern Data Science. It has enormous applications in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, data scientists and application developers from different disciplines, as well as usable by stakeholders.

SDM has established itself as a leading conference in the field of data mining and provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. SDM emphasizes principled methods with solid mathematical foundation, is known for its high-quality and high-impact technical papers, and offers a strong workshop and tutorial program (which are included in the conference registration). The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form, and are also made available on the SIAM web site.

Steering Committee Co-Chairs

Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA

Steering Committee

Chid Apte, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, U.S.
Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.
Joydeep Ghosh, The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.
Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, U.S.
Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, U.S.
Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, U.S.
Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.

Conference Co-Chairs

Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.
Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of Athens, Greece

Program Co-Chairs

Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy

Workshops Co-Chairs

Joao Gama, University of Porto-LIAAD, Portugal
Jing Gao, SUNY Buffalo, U.S.

Tutorials Chair

Yan Liu, University of Southern California, U.S.

Doctoral Forum Chair

Julian McAuley, University of California, San Diego, U.S.

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Matteo Riondato, TwoSigma, U.S.

Panels Chair

Francesca Spezzano, Boise State University, U.S.

Publicity Co-Chairs

Zhenhui Li, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.
Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Sloveni

Awards Chair

Zoran Obradavic, Temple University, U.S.

Funding Agency

SIAM and the Organizing Committee wish to extend their thanks and appreciation to the U.S. National Science Foundation  and DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research for their support.

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