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Professional Activities (Recent)

bullet Board of Visitors, Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
bullet Steering Committee (Secretary), IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE).
bullet Technical Advisory Committee, ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN).
bullet Advisory Board, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal.
bullet Advisory Committee, Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data, ECNU, Shanghai.
bulletProgram Chair, Industrial Track, 2014 Int'l Conf. on World Wide Web (WWW).
bullet Awards Committee, 2014 ACM Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

Professional Activities (Past)

bulletChair, IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering.
bulletSecretary/Founding Director, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD).
bulletTrustee, VLDB Endowment (responsible for educational programs for developing countries).
bulletChair, Awards Committee, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD).
bulletAdvisory Board, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD).
bulletSteering Committee, Int'l Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM).
bulletAdvisory Board, Journal of Privacy Technology.
bulletAdvisory Board, Web Archive Cooperative, Stanford University.
bulletTechnical Advisory Committee, RESCUE,University of California - Irvine.
bulletEditor, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
bulletEditor, ACM Transactions on Database Systems.
bulletEditor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies.
bulletEditor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
bulletEditor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
bulletEditor, IEEE Transactions on Computers.
bulletEditor, VLDB Journal.
bulletEditor, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal
bulletEditor, Web Semantics Journal.
bulletGeneral Chair, 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2005).
bulletChair, Dagstuhl Seminar on Data Mining: The Next Generation , July 2005.
bulletProgram Chair, 2003 Almaden Insitiute on Privacy.
bulletProgram Chair, 18th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2002).
bulletProgram Vice-Chair, 17th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2001).
bulletProgram Chair, 10th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD-2000).
bulletGeneral Chair, 1st International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM-2000).
bulletWorkshops Chair, 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD-99).
bulletProgram Chair, 4th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD-98).

Talks (Recent)

bullet(Invited Panel) "Social Good and Privacy", 2014 Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), August 204.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Democratizing Learning from Textbooks", Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, July 2014.
bullet(Test-of-Time Award Talk) "Hippocratic Databases in the Cloud Era", ACM SIGMOD Int'l Conf. on Management of Data, June 2014.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Computational Education: A New Frontier for Data Researchers?", Inaugural Symposium of Seoul National University Big Data Institute, April 2014.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Computational Education: A Big Data Opportuniy?", BigData Innovators Gathering (BIG), Seoul, April 2014.
bullet(Keynote) "Computational Education: The Next Frontier for Digital Libraries?", 15th Int'l Conf. on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), Bangalore, December 2013.
bullet(Keynote) "Computational Education: A New Frontier for Data Researchers?", Int'l Workshop on Machine Learning and Text Analytics (MLTA), Delhi, December 2013.
bullet(Distinguished Lecture) "Computational Education: An Opportunity for India to Lead?", National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Bombay, November 2013.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Computational Education: A Data Science Opportunity?", Beckman Database Research Workshop, National Academies, Irvine, October 2014.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Enriching Electronic Textbooks?", 3rd Stanford Conf. on Computational Social Science (CSS), September 2013.
bullet(Invited Panel) "Whither Big Data?", 2013 Int'l Conf. on World Wide Web (WWW),Rio, Brazil, May 2013.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Reimagining Textbooks through the Data Lens", UC Berkeley Data Science and Analytics Thought Leaders, May 2013.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Reimagining Textbooks through the Data Lens", Stanford InfoSeminar, February 2013.
bullet(Keynote) "Data Analytics for Electronic Textbooks" 1st Int'l Conf. on Big Data Analytic (BDA), New Delhi, India, December 2012.
bullet(Keynote) "Reimagining Textbooks through the Data Lens", 18th Int'l Conf. on Management of Data (COMAD), Pune, India, December 2012.
bullet(Institute Colloquium) "Whither Big Data?", IIT-Bombay, India, December 2012.
bullet(Keynote) "Whither Big Data?" FAN Workshop on Big Data, Santa Clara, CA, October 2012.
bullet(Keynote) "Electronic Textbooks and Data Mining", 13th Int'l Conf. on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Harbin, China, August 2012.
bullet(Invited Panel) "Industry University Collaboration", 2012 Int'l Conf. on World Wide Web (WWW), Lyon, France April 2012.
bullet(Invited Panel) "Enhancing Quality and Accessibility of Education through Technology", ACM DEV Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2012.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Enhancing Quality and Accessibility of Education through Technology", CTED Conf. on Enhancing Economic Development through Technology, Abu Dhabi, February 2012.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Data Analytics for Embellishing Educational Textbooks", Indo-US Forum on Large Scale Data Analytics and Intelligent Services, Bangalore, December 2011.
bullet(Keynote) "Enriching Education: A New Data Mining Opportunity", European Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Athens, Greece, Sept. 2011.
bullet(Keynote)"Enriching Education: A New Data Mining Opportunity", 4th Int'l Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PreMI), Moscow, Russia, June 2011.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Data Externality", Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, November 2010.
bullet(Invited Talk) "Data Externality", European Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2010.
bullet(Keynote) "Data Externality", 7th Int'l Conf. on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC), Warsaw, Poland, June 2010.
bullet(Keynote) "Humane Computing: Musings of a Sunday Gentleman", 15th Int'l Conf. on Management of Data (COMAD), December 2009.
bullet(Invited Talk) "A Framework for ICTD Research", CCC Workshop on Computer Science and Global Development, Berkeley, CA, August 2009.

Talks (Through 2008)

bulletHumane Data Mining, Keynote, ACM CIKM 2008.
bulletHumane Data Mining: The Next Frontier, 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting(AN 08).
bulletServing the Underserved: A Technological Perspective, APWeb/WAIM 2007.
bulletHumane Data Mining, 16th International World Wide Web Conference(WWW 07).
bulletNext Frontier, Keynote, 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 06).
bulletEnabling 21st Century Healthcare IT Revolution, Keynote, 22nd British National Conf. on Databases, July 2005.
bulletPrivacy and Data Mining, Invited Talk, ECML/PKDD 2004.
bulletSovereign Information Sharing and Mining in a Connected World, Invited Talk, Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM-04).
bulletPrivacy Enhancing Techniques for Database Systems, Tutorial, 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2004).
bulletPrivacy Cognizant Information Systems, Samuel D. Conte Distinguished Lecture, Purdue University, November 2003.
bulletPrivacy Cognizant Information Systems, Keynote, 10th ACM Conference on Computers and Communications Security (CCS-2003).
bulletPrivacy in Data Systems, Invited Tutorial, ACM PODS 2003 Conference.
bulletPrivacy Aware Data Management and Analytics, Keynote, 7th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-03).
bulletDatabase Technologies for E-Commerce, Advanced Technology Seminar, 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2003).
bulletHippocratic Data Management, Norman E. Friedmann Distinguished Lecture, UCLA Jon Postel Distinguished Lecturer Series (2002-2003).
bulletMaking Semantic Web Real: Some Building Blocks, Invited Talk, International Workshop on the Semantic Web (2002).
bulletDatabase Technologies for E-Commerce, Tutorial, 8th Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2002).
bulletData Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, Invited Speech, International Workshop on Database Technologies for Data Mining (DTDM02)
bulletPrivacy-Preserving Data Mining, Distinguished Lecture Series, Simon Fraser University (2001).
bulletData Mining: Crossing the Chasm, Keynote, 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD-99).
bulletData Mining Techniques and Applications, International Professorship in Computer Science, University of Antwerp and Liege(1999).
bulletAlgorithms for Data Mining, Autumn School of the Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems, Berlin (1998).
bulletThe Quest Data Mining System: Current Status and Future Directions, Invited Talk, 1st Int'l Conf. on Rough Sets and Currents Trends in Computing, Warsaw (1998).
bulletData Mining Technology, VLDB Tutorial Series, Buenos Aires (1997).

Special Assignments

bullet S&T Strategies of Six Countries: Implications for the United States, National Research Council, 2010.
bullet State Voter Registration Databases: Immediate Actions and Future Improvements, National Research Council, 2008.
bullet Improving India's Education System Through Information Technology, IBM Study for the President of India, 2005.