Data & Information Systems (DAIS)
Professor Jiawei Han
Who are we?
Kevin Chang
Web-scale Info
Integration &
Retrieval
Jiawei Han
Aditya
Parameswaran
Data Mining
Simplified
Data Analytics
+ Lots of students!
Hari Sundaram
ChengXiang Zhai
Social Network
Analysis,
Crowdsourcing
Intelligent Text
Information Systems
What are we working on? “Big data stuff”
Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Statistics
Intelligent information agent
Decision/Task support
Information analysis & Data mining
Data/Information Access
Recommendation
Search
Parallel Computing
Browsing
Storage
Gigabytes Terabytes Petabytes
Theory &
Algorithms
Productivity (Web, email, …)
Decision making (government, business, personal)
Education
Health/Medical/Biology Bioinformatics
Application impact
Scalability
Systems & Networking
Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics
Kevin Chang: Web-Scale Data Retrieval and Integration
Building the Next-Generation Search Engines
 WISDM: Web Indexing and
Search for Dynamic Mining
 Search the Web as a huge
database of entities.
 ARISE: Augmented Reality
Information Search Engine
 Bridge information from the
virtual to the real world!
 Productization: Cazoodle for
vertical search
 Cazoodle Apartment Search
500K unique users monthly.
http://www.placeofmine.com/
Jiawei Han: Data Mining
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Mining patterns and knowledge from massive data
Mining text-rich heterogeneous information networks
Exploring broad data mining applications
Developed popular data mining algorithms: FPgrowth, PrefixSpan,
gSpan, RankingCube, TruthFinder, RankClus, …
700+ research papers in conferences and journals
Fellow of ACM, Fellow of IEEE, ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, W.
McDowell Award, Daniel Drucker Eminent Faculty Award
Textbook, “Data mining: Concepts and Techniques,” adopted worldwide
Director of Information Network Academic Research Center by U.S. Army
Research Lab (ARL) [2009-2019]
Co-Director of KnowEng, BD2K Center supported by NIH [2014-2018]
Graduated 41 Ph.D.’s and supervising 16 Ph.D. students and 10 MS/UGs
Aditya Parameswaran
Simplified Data Analytics
i.stanford.edu/~adityagp
“….(in the next few years) we project a need for 1.5
million additional analysts in the United States who can
analyze data effectively…“,
In my group, you will:
-- McKinsey Big Data Study, 2012
How may we enable novices perform data analysis?
Unstructured
CrowdPowered
Analytics
Querying
Interactive
Analytics
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Design algorithms with
formal guarantees
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Design and build
scalable systems
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Sift through data
Scale
Approximate
Analytics
Visualizations
Visual
Analytics
Hari Sundaram: Social Network Dynamics
http://sundaram.cs.illinois.edu
How can social networks
influence behavior at
large scale?
sustainability
public health
traffic
exercising
In my group we develop theory,
design algorithms, build
systems and run experiments
message
synthesis,
spatial codes
algorithmic
game theory,
equilibria
large-scale
network
analysis
Most recent PhD student is now faculty at Georgia Tech.
ChengXiang Zhai: Information Retrieval &
Text Mining
 ACM Distinguished Scientist, Sloan Fellowship
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Presidential early career award
ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award
General models & framework
Retrieval models
Personalized search
Topic map for browsing
Information
Retrieval
Big
Text Data
Topic mining & analysis
Opinion analysis
Trustworthiness
Text
Mining
Small
Relevant Data
Applications
Web, …
Biomedical/Health informatics
Intelligent education systems
Decision
Support
Strong presence in multiple ACM communities:
Data Mining, Information Retrieval, & Databases
ACM SIGKDD
ACM SIGIR
ACM SIGMOD
Come & Join a Strong Body of DAIS Students…
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Prominent awards
– Multiple ACM SIGKDD/SIGMOD Ph.D. Dissertation Awards /Runner-Ups
– 10-year highest impact paper awards
– Best student paper awards, best paper awards, best poster/demo awards,
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– IBM/Microsoft/Google/Yahoo/NSF/NDSEG Ph.D. Fellowships, ...
After graduation
– Professorships at U. Michigan, U. Virginia (2), UCSB, Ohio St. U., Penn. St.
U., Oregon St. U., SUNY Buffalo, NC St. U., Notre Dame, NEU, Florida St. U,
U. Texas at Arlington, Zhejiang U., N. Taiwan U., SMU, Chinese U. HK,
POSTECH, …
– Researchers at IBM, MSR, Google Research/Google, Yahoo! Lab, Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn, NEC Lab, Pinterest, Caterpillar, …
– Leaders in startups & IT industry (CTO of iPinYou,..)
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