KDD’13 Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Organization List

General Co-Chairs: Robert L. Grossman, Univ. of Chicago and Open Data Group Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Corporation, Ret.

Program Co-Chairs: Inderjit S. Dhillon, University of Texas Yehuda Koren, Google

Industry & Government Track Co-Chairs: Rayid Ghani, University of Chicago Ted E. Senator, SAIC

Industry Practice Expo Co-Chairs: Paul Bradley, MethodCare Rajesh Parekh, Groupon

Workshop Co-Chairs: Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University Jie Tang, Tsinghua University

Tutorial Co-Chairs: W. Scott Spangler, IBM Research Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University

Local Arrangements Chair: Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University Meira Leonard, University of Chicago

Exhibit and Demo Co-Chairs: Natasha Balac, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

SIGKDD 2013 Awards Chair: Ying Li, Concurix Corporation

SIGKDD 2013 Doctoral Dissertation Awards Chair: Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University

KDD Cup Chairs: Brian Dalessandro, Media6Degrees Claudia Perlich, Media6Degrees Ben Hamner, Kaggle William Cukierski, Kaggle

Media and Publicity Co-Chairs: Ankur Teredesai, Univ of Washington – Tacoma Emilia Palaveeva, Yantra PR

Panel Co-Chairs: Foster Provost, New York University Geoff Webb, Monash University

Publications Co-Chairs: Jingrui He, Stevens Institute of Technology Jimeng Sun, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Social Network Co-Chairs: Gabor Melli, VigLink Inc Ron Bekkerman, Carmel Ventures

Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Dou Shen, Baidu Michael Zeller, Zementis

xxii Treasurer: Suzanne Fogel, DePaul University

Video Co-Chairs: Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute Jure Leskovec, Stanford University

Best Paper Chairs: Charles Elkan, Univ. California San Diego Aris Gionis, Aalto University

Student Awards: Daniela Raicu, DePaul University Jonathan Gemmell, DePaul University

Webmaster: Meira Leonard, University of Chicago

Registration: Shannon Cunningham, ExecutivEvents Meira Leonard, University of Chicago

2013 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Committee: Bamshad Mobasher, Chair, DePaul University, USA Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dimitrios Gunopulos, The University of Athens, Greece Mohammad Al Hasan, Indiana Univ.-Purdue University, USA Sofus Macskassy, Facebook, Inc., USA Jennifer Neville, Purdue University, USA Myra Spiliopoulou,Otto von Guericke Univ Magdeburg,Germany Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA

ACM SIGKDD 2013 Awards Committee Ying Li, Concurix Corporation – Chair Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University Usama Fayyad, ChoozOn Corporation Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Ross Quinlan, Rulequest Research Bharat Rao, Deloitte Sunita Sarawagi, Indian institute of technology Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors, Ret. Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta

Industry Practice Advisory Committee Paul Bradley, Methodcare Co-Chair Rajesh Parekh, Groupon Co-Chair Eric Bloedom, Mitre Usama Fayyad, ChoozOn Robert Grossman, University of Chicago Ying Li, Concurix Corporation Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDNuggets Christian Posse, Google Raghu Ramakrishnan, Microsoft Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Corp., Ret.

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