2010 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Professor Benjamin W. Wah

The IEEE ICDM Outstanding Award is given to one individual or one group who has made major service contributions that have promoted data mining as a field and ICDM as the world's premier research conference in data mining. The 2010 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award goes to Dr. Benjamin W. Wah, Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Wah has made significant service contributions in promoting data mining as a field.

He co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chief between 1994 and 1997 (two terms). During his terms, he started data mining as one of the key topic areas in TKDE and helped promote data mining as a discipline. TKDE was the first journal that published a number of key papers on data mining in the 1990s.

During his terms as the President of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) and as the Chair of the Task Force on Virtual Intelligence, he worked with Dr. Xindong Wu closely to launch ICDM as an IEEE-CS conference. He has been serving on its Steering Committee since 2002. He served as Program Co-Chair for ICDM 2005 and as Conference Co-Chair for ICDM 2006. He was also a driving force to launch the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (now Intelligent Informatics) in 2002 from the Task Force on Virtual Intelligence.

Wah has published over 300 articles in various areas of computer science and engineering. He has received the IEEE-CS Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the IEEE-CS W. Wallace-McDowell Award, the IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award, and the IEEE-CS Tsutomu Kanai Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAS.

2010 IEEE ICDM Nomination and Evaluation Committees

Xindong Wu (Co-Chair), University of Vermont, USA
Osmar R. Zaiane (Co-Chair), University of Alberta, Canada
David J. Hand, Imperial College, London, UK
Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA
Ross Quinlan, RuleQuest, Australia
Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

From Xindong Wu (xwu AT cems.uvm.edu) on November 4, 2010.