Data Science and Analytics Webinar Series 2021 - Practicing the Art of Data Science

Dr. Jian Pei is working hard to facilitate efficient, fair, and sustainable usage of data and data analytics for social, economical and ecological good. Through inventing, implementing and deploying a series of data mining principles and methods, he produced remarkable values to academia and industry. His algorithms have been adopted by industry, open source toolkits and textbooks. His publications have been cited extensively. He is also an active and productive volunteer for professional community services, such as chairing ACM SIGKDD, running many premier academic conferences in his areas, and being editor-in-chief or associate editor for the flagship journals in his fields. He is recognized as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (i.e., the national academy of Canada), the Canadian Academy of Engineering, ACM and IEEE.  He received a series of prestigious awards, such as the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, the ACM SIGKDD Service Award, and the IEEE ICDM Research Award.  Currently he is a full professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.