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July 17, 2012
Department Head Vipin Kumar has been selected to receive the ACM SIGKDD 2012 Innovation Award. The ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award is the highest award for technical excellence in the field of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). It is conferred on one individual or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations in the KDD field have had a lasting impact in advancing the theory and practice of the field.
Kumar is being honored for his contributions to foundational research in data mining and its applications to mining scientific data. ACM SIGKDD cited his significant contributions to a wide range of core data mining areas including graph partitioning, clustering, association analysis, high performance and parallel data mining, anomaly/change detection and data driven discovery methods for analyzing global climate and ecosystem data. Many of his papers on these topics are amongst the most highly cited papers in data mining.
The award will be presented at the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, on August 12, 2012 in Beijing, China.
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