Data mining people

Anil K. Jain is a professor of Computer Science from Michigan State University. Originally from India (B.Tech. in Kanpur) he then went to US where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State University. His research focus on statistical pattern recognition, data clustering, texture analysis, document image understanding and biometric authentication.

It is worth mentioning he received a lot of awards from different journals and conferences. He is a fellow of the following associations: AAAS, ACM, IEEE, IAPR and SPIE. His most famous work is certainly in clustering where he published a book entitled "Algorithms For Clustering Data" (Jain and Dubes, 1988). This book is cited more than 800 times on Citeseer.

He has more recently written a major paper in the clustering field: "Data Clustering: A Review" (Jain et al., 1999). If you're in the clustering domain, and have not read it, I personally recommend this very good paper. As written in a previous post, Anil K. Jain will be present at the MLDM'2007 in Leipzig (Germany) to give a talk about clustering. You can find more information about him on his webpage.

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Data mining people: Heikki Mannila

Here is a new post about data mining people. Today, Heikki Mannila is introduced. He has Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Helsinki. He worked for companies such as Microsoft and Nokia. He also was a research director in Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. He is currently an academy professor.

Heikki Mannila is well known in the data mining community due to his book Principles of Data Mining, written with David Hand and Padhraic Smyth. This book covers many topics in data mining and is a very good introduction to this field.

Some of his research fields are in algorithms, databases and data mining. He applies these domains in areas such as computational biology, paleontology, linguistics and ubiquitous computing. These informations have mainly been found on Mannila's webpage.

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Data mining people: Usama Fayyad

If you're reading this blog regularly, you now trends in my posts. Out of the news related to data mining, two headings are recurrent: the small book review (my comments on a book somehow related to data mining) and the data mining application (a summary of a research paper about data mining). Today, I introduce a new one: data mining people. The idea is to briefly resume biography of someone important in the data mining field.

In this post, I begin with Usama Fayyad. He is Yahoo!'s chief data officer and senior vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Before joining Yahoo!, Fayyad co-founded and directed the DMX Group, a data mining consulting company.
He also co-founded and served as CEO of digiMine Inc., a data mining company. He worked as well with Microsoft and the NASA.

Here is a short biography of his studies:

• BSE in both electrical and computer engineering (1984)
  
• MSE in computer science and engineering (1986)
  
• M.Sc. in mathematics (1989)
  
• Ph.D. in engineering (1991)

Two famous publications of him are Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Most information of this post have been taken at Yahoo! website.

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