Conference Organizers

General Chair
  • Qiang Yang (HKUST)
Program Co-Chairs
  • Deepak Agarwal (LinkedIn)
  • Jian Pei (SFU)
Honorary Conference Chairs
  • Ruqian Lu (Chinease Academy of Science)
  • Bo Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Advisory Committee Chair
  • Deyi Li (Chinese Academy of Engineering)

 

Associate General Chair
  • Dou Shen (CityGrid Media)
Industry and Government Track Co-Chairs
  • Michael Zeller (Zementis)
  • Hui Xiong (Rutgers)
Industry Practice Expo Co-Chairs
  • Ying Li (Concurix Corporation)
  • Rajesh Parekh (Groupon)
Asia Pacific Track Co-Chairs
  • David Cheung (HKU)
  • Wei Wang (UCLA)
Workshop Co-Chairs
  • Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University)
  • Sofus A. Macskassy (Information Sciences Institute / USC)
Tutorial Co-Chairs
  • Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
  • Yehuda Koren (Google)
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
  • Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)
  • Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
  • Chao Liu (Tencent Inc.)
Exhibit and Demo Co-Chairs
  • Tie-Yan Liu (MSRA)
  • Jian-Tao Sun (MSRA)
  • Natasha Balac (UC San Diego)
Industrial Liaison Chairs
  • Haixun Wang (MSRA)
  • Haifeng Wang (Baidu)
KDD Best Paper Awards Co-Chairs
  • Ke Wang (SFU)
  • Rich Caruana (Cornell)
SIGKDD 2012 Awards Chair
  • Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors (Ret))
KDD Cup Co-Chairs
  • Brian Dalessandro (Media6Degrees)
  • Claudia Perlich (Media6Degrees)
  • Gordon Sun (Tencent)
  • Aden Yue (Tencent)
KDD Summer School
  • Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University)
  • Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University)
  • Hang Li (Huawei)
Media (Web and Publicity) Co-Chairs
  • Ming Hua (Facebook)
  • Jianyong Wang (Tsinghua University)
  • Rayid Ghani (Obama for America)
  • Emilia Palaveeva (Yantra PR)
Panel Co-Chairs
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft)
  • Charles Ling (University of Western Ontario)
Poster Co-Chairs
  • Yan Liu (USC)
  • Ping Luo (HP Lab)
Publications Co-Chairs
  • Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil (NEC Laboratories America)
  • Jingrui He (IBM)
Registrations Chair
  • Xingquan Zhu (UTS)
Social Network Co-Chairs
  • Ron Bekkerman (Linkedin)
  • Qiaozhu Mei (Michigan University)
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
  • Balaji Krishnapuram (Siemens)
  • Shiqiang Yang (Tsinghua University)
  • Peng Cui (Tsinghua University)
Student Awards Co-Chairs
  • Jimeng Sun (IBM Research)
  • Jennifer Dy (Northeastern)
Student Volunteer Co-Chairs
  • Juanzi Li (Tsinghua University)
  • Min-Ling Zhang (SouthEast University)
Treasurer
  • Raymond Wong (HKUST)
Video Co-Chairs
  • Steven Hoi (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Shou-de Lin (NTU)
Web Master
  • Weike Pan (HKUST)
  • Guang-Tong Zhou (SFU)
  • Xiao Meng (SFU)