Jiawei Han
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Jiawei Han, born in Shanghai, China on 11 August 1949, is a renowned computer scientist
who specializes in research on Data Mining
. He is an ACM
fellow and an IEEE fellow
. He was the 2009 winner of the McDowell Award
, the highest technical award made by IEEE.
He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. Previously he was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
.
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
who specializes in research on Data Mining
Data mining
Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...
. He is an ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
fellow and an IEEE fellow
IEEE Fellow
An IEEE member is elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for "unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest"...
. He was the 2009 winner of the McDowell Award
McDowell Award
The W. Wallace McDowell Award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest...
, the highest technical award made by IEEE.
He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
. Previously he was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
.