Professor Jian Pei receives Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) 2015 Service Award

July 23, 2015
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Simon Fraser University computing science professor Jian Pei has received a prestigious award from the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) for significant technical contributions to data mining and outstanding services to society and the data mining community.

The ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) 2015 Service Award is conferred on one individual or one group for their outstanding professional services and contributions to the field of knowledge discovery and data mining.

One of the most cited authors in data mining, Pei has a long history of contributing to the frontier of data mining research and serving the data mining community. He is one of the key organizers of several KDD and data mining conferences and events and the current editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Of Pei’s contributions, the ACM SIGKDD states in an announcement:  

“Pei’s outstanding professional services have been concretely built on his prolific research.  He is responsible for a series of fundamental data mining methods, such as FP-growth and PrefixSpan, which have been covered by popular data mining textbooks, taught in undergraduate and graduate data mining courses, adopted by industry, and implemented in many popular open source data mining toolkits. Since 2000, Pei has published over 200 technical contributions, which have been cited more than 50,000 times.”

Source: ACM KDD website