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KDD 2010 Opening Ceremony R. Bharat Rao Balaji Krishnapuram General Chairs

2. . Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat RaoSigKDD Chair: Usama FayyadAwards PresentationResearch Track awards - Andrew Tomkins

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KDD 2010 Opening Ceremony R. Bharat Rao Balaji Krishnapuram General Chairs

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    1. 1 KDD 2010 Opening Ceremony R. Bharat Rao & Balaji Krishnapuram General Chairs

    2. 2 Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Awards Presentation Research Track awards - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    3. Welcome to KDD-2010

    4. 4 Gold Sponsor: Silver Sponsors: Bronze Sponsor: 2010 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Awards: KDD-2010 Industrial / Government Best Paper Awards: KDD-2010 Best Student Paper Awards: KDD-2010 Student Travel Awards: KDD-2010 Google Female Student Grants:

    5. What sets KDD apart? High-quality research program 4 parallel Research Tracks 12 workshops 12 tutorials 1 panel

    6. What sets KDD apart (contd.) Top international forum for learning how to leverage leading-edge technology for practical applications. KDD Cup Demos, Exhibits Industrial / Government Track

    7. KDD highlights continued Plenary Invited Talks: 9am-10am Monday: Qi Lu (Microsoft), “Online Services Division Strategy Overview” Tuesday: David Jensen (Univ of Mass), “Computational Social Science” Wednesday: Konrad Feldman (Quantcast), “The quantification of advertising and lessons from building a business based on large scale data mining” Data Mining Case Studies session (Mon: 10:30am, 2pm) 7 invited talks: challenges/success in real-world deployment Gabor Melli & Brendan Kitts

    8. 8 Big Thanks to… Industrial / Government Track Co-Chairs Ying Li (Microsoft) Ted Senator (SAIC) Sponsorships Chair: Karl Rexer (Rexer Analytics) Publicity Co-Chairs: Prem Melville (IBM) Mikhail Bilenko (Microsoft) Treasurer: Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame) Proceedings Chair: Jieping Ye (ASU) Web Co-Chairs: Brendan Kitts (Lucid Commerce) Panos Ipeirotis (Stern/NYU) Tutorials Co-Chairs: Tina Eliassi-Rad (Lawrence Livermore), Francoise Soulie Fogelman (KXEN) Workshops Co-Chairs: Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks) Irwin King (Chinese Univ of Hong Kong) Local Arrangements Chair: Ramani Duraiswami (UMD) Registrations Chair: Claudia Perlich (Media6Degrees) Posters Co-Chairs: Diane J. Cook (WSU) Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Yahoo) Panels Co-Chairs: Wei Fan (IBM) Joao Gama (University of Porto) Student Awards Chair: Murat Dundar (IUPUI) Exhibits and Demos Chairs: Jennifer Dy (Northeastern) Parthasarathy Srinivasan (OSU) KDD Cup Chairs: Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil (IBM) John Stamper (CMU) Best Paper Awards Co-Chairs: Charles Elkan (UCSD) Yehuda Koren (Yahoo)

    9. And most of all, thanks to… SIGKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad (Open Insights) Program Chairs: Andrew Tomkins (Google Inc.) Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Associate General Chair: Balaji Krishnapuram (Siemens Healthcare) Special thanks to.. Francisco Miguel Trigueiros (Siemens Healthcare)

    10. Data Mining Trends Today pervasive in Finance Web Advertising Social Networks Plus many niche apps

    11. Data Mining Trends Over the next 10 years Healthcare Energy Industrial Automation

    12. 12 Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Awards Presentation Research Track awards - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    14. Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Program Overview Research Track Overview - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    15. ACM KDD 2010 PC Chairs’ Summary Andrew Tomkins and Qiang Yang

    16. Overview Two Tracks Research Track: Submitted: 578 Accepted: 101 I/G Track Submitted: 101 Accepted: 20 Research track:  283 main PC members  45 senior PC members  1832 reviews 577 meta-reviews Industrial track:  49 PC members  304 reviews In all, CMT sent 8530 emails!

    17. Industry and Government Track I/G Track Submitted: 101 Accepted: 20

    18. Research Track Statistics

    19. Research Track Review Process Initial bidding took into account PC and SPC subject area keywords Expertise profiles built from DBLP paper titles Manual inspection A new author-feedback phase introduced this year to give authors a voice on review quality Final decision took into account reviews author feedback, and paper rankings to remove bias 101 papers accepted 17.4%

    20. Research Track Submissions by Country and Regions

    21. Research Track: # of Accepts by Countries and Regions

    22. Research Track Acceptance rates by countries and regions

    23. Research Track: 2009/2010 Submission Comparison

    24. Industry and Government Track

    25. I/G Track: Paper Submission Statistics Top I/G submissions by countries & regions

    26. I/G Acceptance Rates (aggr. Rate = 20/101=19.8%) I/G Acceptance Rates by Countries & Regions

    27. Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Awards Presentation Research Track awards - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    28. Best paper committee

    29. Selection process A set of 13 candidate papers assembled by KDD PCs SPC nomination for best paper candidacy High reviewer ranking 9 papers were “student papers” Best paper committee conducted an extensive review of the candidates Original reviews/scores were withheld

    30. Finalists Best paper committee reached a short list of seven finalists Each finalist was voted as suitable to be “best paper” by at least one committee member Six (out of seven) finalists were student papers! Let’s give a honorable mention to the runner-ups!

    36. Honorable mentions Discriminative Topic Modeling based on Manifold Learning. Seungil Huh, and Stephen E. Fienberg Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic Models. Tomoharu Iwata, Takeshi Yamada, Yasushi Sakurai, and Naonori Ueda Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence. Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Jure Leskovec, and Andreas Krause A Scalable Two-Stage Approach for a Class of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques. Liang Sun, Betul Ceran, and Jieping Ye Learning Incoherent Sparse and Low-Rank Patterns from Multiple Tasks. Jianhui Chen, Ji Liu, and Jieping Ye

    37. Final selection Extensive discussions to rank the finalists and select the award winners Both top two places taken by student papers ? No separate “best student paper” award this year! But this committee was elected to give two prizes, so two prizes we give... Let’s recognize our sponsor

    38. Best Research Paper: Technical Contribution

    39. Best Research Paper: Technical Contribution

    40. Best Research Paper: Innovative Contribution

    41. Best Research Paper: Innovative Contribution

    42. Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Program Overview Research Track Overview - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    43. Honorable Mention for Best Industry/Government Track Paper

    44. Best Industry/Government Track Paper

    45. Changes in the Industrial / Government Track Emphasizes real deployed KDD applications Discovery of externally validated useful knowledge Emerging applications of KDD Discussed at Business lunch (Tue) Details in foreword to the I/G track

    46. 46 Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Awards Presentation Research Track awards - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    47. Background The 3nd annual doctoral dissertation award for SIGKDD To recognize excellent research contributions by a doctoral candidate in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery Nominations limited to one doctoral dissertation per academic unit So initial vetting done by departments 14 nominees after the initial selection process 4 selected as finalists by the committee 47

    48. 48 Review Criteria Relevance to KDD Significance of contributions Broader impact to community Originality Technical quality Presentation quality

    49. Co-Sponsor: Machine Learning Journal This year, the Dissertation Award was co-sponsored by MLJ, Published by Springer “...THE CUTTING EDGE IN AI RESEARCH.... Machine Learning is an international forum for research on computational approaches to learning. The journal publishes articles reporting substantive results on a wide range of learning methods applied to a variety of learning problems. “ Peter Flach – Editor in Chief 49

    50. 50 Award Committee Bamshad Mobasher, Chair, DePaul University, USA Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois, Chicago Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dimitrios Gunopulos, UC Riverside, USA Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jennifer Neville, Purdue University Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University Xiaoxin Yin, Microsoft

    51. Winner of the 2010 Award 51

    52. 2010 Runner Up 52

    53. Honorable Mentions Qiaozhu Mei “Contextual Text Mining” Advisors: Cheng Xiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pauli Miettinen “Matrix Decomposition Methods for Data Mining: Computational Complexity and Algorithms” Advisor: Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki 53

    54. 54 Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Awards Presentation Research Track awards - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    55. 2010 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Chair Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research Sunita Sarawagi, Indian Institute of Technology Padhraic Smyth, University of California at Irvine Ramakrishnan Srikant, Google Research Xindong Wu, University of Vermont Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 55

    56. ACM SIGKDD Service Award ACM SIGKDD Service Award is the highest service award in the field of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). It is conferred on one individual or one group for their outstanding professional services and contributions to the KDD field. Services recognized include significant contributions to the activities of professional KDD societies and conferences, leading organizations or projects that contribute technically to the field as a whole, furthering education of students, researchers and practitioners of KDD, funding R&D activities of the KDD community, professional volunteer services in disseminating technical information to the field, and contributions to society at large through applications of KDD concepts to improve global medical care, education, disaster/crisis management, environment, etc. The award includes a plaque and a check for $2,500 56

    57. Previous Service Award Winners 2000: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro 2002: Ramasamy Uthurusamy 2003: Usama M. Fayyad 2004: Xindong Wu 2005: The WEKA Team led by Ian Witten and Eibe Frank 2006: Won Kim 2007: Robert L. Grossman 2009: Sunita Sarawagi 57

    58. 2010 Service Award Winner Osmar R. Zaďane 58

    59. For: His Significant Service and Contributions to the Global KDD Community His direct involvement with SIGKDD in the last decade and much more .. 59

    60. About Prof. O. R. Zaďane …(1/2) Ph. D. from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Currently a McCalla and Killam Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta , Canada Scientific Director, Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning Secretary-Treasurer of SIGKDD Editor-in-Chief of SIGKDD Explorations since 2007 Associate Editor of SIGKDD Explorations 2004-2007 Treasurer of newly founded SIGHINF (Health Informatics) Steering Committee of IEEE ICDM Steering Committee of ADMA Associate Editor of KAIS Published over 120 papers 60

    61. About Prof. O. R. Zaďane …(2/2) Co-Chair SIGKDD-MDM/KDD 2000-2001-2002 Co-Chair SIGKDD-WebKDD 2002-2003-2004-2009 Proceedings Chair SIGKDD 2002 Publicity Chair SIGKDD 2002-2003 Webmaster SIGKDD 2002-2003 Sponsorship Chair SIAM-SDM 2003 Tutorials Chair PAKDD 2006 Program Co-Chair ADMA 2006 Program Co-Chair IEEE-ICDM 2007 General Co-Chair ADMA 2007 Data Mining Track Co-Chair ACM-SAC 2008-2009-2010 Exhibits and Demos Chair SIGKDD 2009 Vice-Chair IEEE-ICDM 2009-2010 and more … 61

    63. ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award is the highest award for technical excellence in the field of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). It is conferred on one individual or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations in the KDD field have had a lasting impact in advancing the theory and practice of the field. The contributions must have significantly influenced the direction of research and development of the field or transferred to practice in significant and innovative ways and/or enabled the development of commercial systems. The award includes a plaque and a check for $2,500 63

    64. Previous Innovation Award Winners 2000: Rakesh Agrawal 2002: Jerome Friedman 2003: Heikki Mannila 2004: Jiawei Han 2005: Leo Breiman 2006: Ramakrishnan Srikant 2007: Usama M. Fayyad 2008: Raghu Ramakrishnan 2009: Padhraic Smyth 64

    65. 2010 Innovation Award Winner Christos Faloutsos 65

    66. For his Seminal Research on … Graph and multimedia mining, fractals, self-similarity and power laws; indexing for multimedia and bioinformatics data, and data base performance evaluation. 66

    67. About Prof. C. Faloutsos Ph.D. in CS from University of Toronto, Canada; B.Sc. in EE from NTUA, Athens, Greece. Professor, Carnegie Mellon Univ., 11 Ph.D. grads 14 Distinguished Lectures Author of monograph Searching Multimedia Databases by Content (Springer) Board of Directors, SIGKDD (1999-2005) PC Chair/Co-Chair for SIGMOD’99 and KDD’03 Associate Editor for ACM-TKDD, IEEE-TKDE Over 30 Tutorials 67

    68. Prof. Faloutsos’ Awards SIGCOMM’10 Test of Time Award (power laws) Among 5th most cited papers in 1999 (citeseer) VLDB’97 Test of Time Award (R+ trees) ICDM’06 Research Contributions Award NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award 16 Best Paper Awards 4 Teaching Awards 5 Patents Awarded, +4 pending 68

    69. Uthurusamy-KDD-10 69

    70. 70 Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Awards Presentation Research Track awards - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    71. 71 Welcome General Chair: R. Bharat Rao SigKDD Chair: Usama Fayyad Awards Presentation Research Track awards - Andrew Tomkins & Qiang Yang Best Research Papers – Yehuda Koren Industry/Govt track awards – Ted Senator & Ying Li Dissertation awards presentation - Bamshad Mobasher Service & Innovation Awards - R. Uthurusamy Innovation Award Lecture – Prof. Christos Faloutsos Close of opening ceremony – R. Bharat Rao Agenda

    73. Mon, Jul 26, 2010 Plenary Invited Talks: 9am-10am Qi Lu (Microsoft), “Online Services Division Strategy Overview” Lunch moved to Regency C/D/E/F Not in Independence as scheduled Chairs will need to finish sessions on time to allow time for hotel to rearrange the room Paper sessions from Independence A are in Regency C/D/E/F

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