Research Contributions Award

Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA Citation

Outstanding Service Award

Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Citation

Best Paper Awards

• Best Student Paper: “A Randomized Approach for Approximating the Number of Frequent Sets”
  • Mario Boley
  • Henrik Grosskreutz
• Best Theoretical/Algorithms Paper Award: “Scalable Tensor Decomposition for Multi-Aspect Data Mining”
  • Tamara Kolda
  • Jimeng Sun
• Runner-up Best Theoretical/Algorithms Paper Award: “Isolation Forest”
  • Fei Tony Liu
  • Kai Ming Ting
  • Zhi-Hua Zhou
• Best Application Paper Award: “Interpreting PET Scans by Structured Patient Data: A Data Mining Case Study in Dementia Research”
  • Andreas Hapfelmeier
  • Jana Schmidt
  • Marianne Mueller
  • Robert Perneczky
  • Alexander Drzezga
  • Alexander Kurz
  • Stefan Kramer
• Runner-up Best Application Paper Award: “Web mining for Understanding Stories through Graph Visualization”
  • Ilija Subasic
  • Bettina Berendt

Data Mining Contest 2008

• Winner of the Contest Crown
  • Wei Fan IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  • ErHeng Zhong Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Sihong Xie Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Yuzhao Huang Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Kun Zhang Xavier University of Louisiana
  • Jing Peng Montclair State University
  • Jiangtao Ren IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
• Winner of the most muscular
  • Zhongfeng Zhang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Travel Student Awards

• Dimitrios Mavroeidis (AUEB)
• Denny (Australian National University)
• Wilhelmiina Hamalainen (University of Joensuu)
• Vineet Chaoji (RPI)
• Hanhuai Shan (Minnesota)
• TaeHyun Hwang (Minnesota)
• Mayank Lahiri (Illinois)
• Jingu Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Akhmed Umyarov (Stern School NYU)
• Vann Chandola (UMN)
• Stephen Bach (Georgetown)
• Guan Wang (Syracuse University)
• Yang Song (Pennsylvania)
• Paramveer Dhillon (Pennsylvania)
• Qiang Fu (Minnesota)
• Andrew Fast (University of MA Amherst)
• YongChul Kwon (Washington)
• Xia Ning (Minnesota)
• Habiba (Illinois)
• Arun S. Maiya (Illinois)
• Adam Oliner (Stanford)
• Barzan Mozafari (UCLA)
• Hongning Wang (Tsinghua University)
• Liping Liu (Nanjing University)
• BingBing Ni (University of Singapore)
• Hongbo Deng (Hong Kong)