User-Centered Agents for
Structured Information Location on the Web
Xindong Wu (University of Vermont,
USA)
Biography
Xindong Wu is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Vermont. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the
University of Edinburgh, Britain. His research interests include data mining,
knowledge-based systems, and Web information exploration. He has published
extensively in these areas in various journals and conferences, including IEEE
TKDE, TPAMI, ACM TOIS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, KDD, ICDM, and WWW, as well as 12
books and conference proceedings.
Dr. Wu is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering (by the IEEE Computer Society), the founder and current Steering
Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), an
Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems (by Springer), and
a Series Editor of the Springer Book Series on Advanced Information and
Knowledge Processing (AI&KP). He was Program Committee Chair for ICDM '03 (the
2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) and is Program Committee
Co-Chair for KDD-07 (the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining). He is the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Service Award winner, and
a 2005 Chaired Professor in the Cheung Kong (or Yangtze River) Scholars
Programme at the Hefei University of Technology sponsored by the Ministry of
Education of China and the Li Ka Shing Foundation. He has been an
invited/keynote speaker at numerous international conferences including
ICNC'06/FSKD'06, IEEE ICTAI'04, IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'04/IAT'04, SEKE 2002, and
PADD-97.
