Jiawei Han

Jiawei Han
FRSC
BornAugust 10, 1949 (1949-08-10) (age 75)
Shanghai, China
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison (PhD)
University of Science and Technology of China (BSc.)
Scientific career
FieldsData Mining
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Simon Fraser University
Doctoral advisorLarry Travis
Notable students
  • Osmar Zaiane
  • Jain Pei
  • Xifeng Yan
  • Yizhou Sun
  • Quanquan Gu
In this Chinese name, the family name is Han.

Jiawei Han FRSC[1] (Chinese: 韩家炜; born August 10, 1949) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and writer. He currently holds the position of Michael Aiken Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] His research focuses on data mining, text mining, database systems, information networks, data mining from spatiotemporal data, Web data, and social/information network data.

  1. ^ "Class of 2022" (PDF). The Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Database Systems". Archived from the original on 2014-06-12. Retrieved 2013-02-24.