Jiawei Han receives 2009 W. Wallace McDowell Award

The IEEE Computer Society presented its 2009 W. Wallace McDowell Award to Jiawei Han for significant contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining. The W. Wallace McDowell Award honors the outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, innovative contributions within the computing field. Dr. Han accepted his award at the Computer Society's 25 May 2011 awards ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jiawei Han is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. His research includes information network analysis, data mining, data warehousing, stream mining, text and Web mining, and software bug mining. Dr. Han was the first to introduce a compressed frequent pattern tree structure and a pattern-growth methodology for mining frequent, sequential, and structured patterns. The "FP-Tree" is still the fastest method to do association rules - one of the most influential concepts in the last 15 years of data mining.

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