About

Osmar R. Zaïane is a Professor in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Canada, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a fellow with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). Dr. Zaiane is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is the former Scientific Director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute from 2009 to 2020, one of the three pillars of the federal Pan-Canadian strategy on AI run by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Dr. Zaiane joined the University of Alberta in July of 1999. He obtained a Master's degree in Electronics at the University of Paris, France, in 1989 and a Master's degree in Computer Science at Laval University, Canada, in 1992. He obtained his PhD from Simon Fraser University, Canada, in 1999 under the supervision of Dr. Jiawei Han. His PhD thesis work focused on web mining and multimedia data mining. He has research interests in data analytics, namely novel data mining algorithms, web mining, text mining, image mining, social network analysis, data visualization and information retrieval with applications in Health Informatics, e-Learning and e-Business. He has published more than 450 papers in refereed international conferences and journals, and taught on all six continents. Osmar Zaiane was from 2009 to 2012 the Secretary-Treasurer of the ACM SIGKDD (ACM Special Interest Group on Data Mining) which runs the world’s premier data science, big data, and data mining association and conference. He is also on the steering committee of many data mining conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Advanced Data Mining and Applications. He was the Associate Editor then Editor-inChief of the ACM SIGKDD Explorations from 2003 to 2010. He was also Associate Editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems, an International Journal, by Springer, and of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery by Springer, as well as the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions. He was the General co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2011 and the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics DSAA 2016. Osmar Zaiane has received numerous awards and recognitions for his research and services to the international research community including the Killam Professorship award, the McCalla Research Professorship, the ICDM Outstanding Service Award and the ACM SIGKDD Service Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the canadian Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC) and from CS-Can. Dr. Zaiane is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology.

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