-
General Chairs
Alexander Tuzhilin
New York University, USA
Hui Xiong
Rutgers University, USA
Program Chairs
Charu Aggarwal
IBM Research
Zhi-Hua Zhou
Nanjing University, China
Steering Committee Chair
Xindong Wu
University of Vermont, USA
Tutorial Chairs
Sanjay Chawla
University of Sydney, Australia
Dou Shen
Baidu, Inc.
Workshop Chairs
Peng Cui
Tsinghua University, China
Jennifer G. Dy
Northeastern University, USA
Panel Chairs
Jian Pei
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rayid Ghani
University of Chicago, USA
Edeflip, Inc.
Publicity Chairs
Gyorgy J. Simon
University of Minnesota, USA
Wenjun Zhou
University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
Min-Ling Zhang
Southeast University, China
Local Arrangement Chairs
Fei Wang
University of Connecticut, USA
Farid Razzak
Rutgers University, USA
Finance Chair
Jing Gao
SUNY University at Buffalo, USA
Poster Chairs
Jingrui He
Arizona State University, USA
Jie Tang
Tsinghua University, China
Contest Chairs
Chandan K. Reddy
Wayne State University, USA
Takashi Washio
Osaka University, Japan
Web Chair
Keli Xiao
College of Business
SUNY - Stony Brook University, USA
Demo Chairs
Hanghang Tong
Arizona State University, USA
B. Aditya Prakash
Virginia Tech, USA
Sponsorship Chairs
Yong Ge
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Matthew Otey
Google Research
Varun Chandola
SUNY - University at Buffalo, USA
PhD Forum Chairs
Leman Akoglu
SUNY - Stony Brook University, USA
Wei Ding
University of Massachussets Boston, USA
Registration Chairs
Chuanren Liu
Drexel University, USA
Spiros Papadimitriou
Rutgers University, USA
Award CommitteeChair 
Dacheng Tao
University of Technology, SydneyCommittee Members 
Diane Cook
Washington State University
Vipin Kumar
University of Minnesota
Zoran Obradovic
Temple University
Area Chairs
| Ira Assent | Aarhus University |
| James Bailey | University of Melbourne |
| Arindam Banerjee | University of Minnesota |
| Elena Baralis | Politecnico di Torino |
| Frans Coenen | University of Liverpool |
| Anirban Dasgupta | IIT Gandhinagar |
| Carlotta Domeniconi | George Mason University |
| Ad Feelders | Universiteit Utrecht |
| Ada Fu | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Aristides Gionis | Aalto University |
| Hang Li | Huawei Noah's Ark Lab |
| Jiuyong Li | University of South Australia |
| Charles Ling | The University of Western Ontario |
| Giuseppe Manco | ICAR-CNR |
| Florent Masseglia | INRIA |
| Shinichi Morishita | University of Tokyo |
| Jennifer Neville | Purdue University |
| Siegfried Nijssen | KULeuven |
| Naren Ramakrishnan | Virginia Tech |
| Cynthia Rudin | MIT |
| Peter Scheuermann | Northwestern University |
| Arno Siebes | Universiteit Utrecht |
| Einoshin Suzuki | Kyushu University |
| Jie Tang | Tsinghua University |
| Evimaria Terzi | Boston University |
| Vincent S. Tseng | National Cheng Kung University |
| Fei Wang | University of Connecticut |
| Wei Wang | University of California |
| Jieping Ye | Arizona State University |
| Philip S. Yu | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Osmar Zaiane | University of Alberta |
| Chengqi Zhang | University of Technology Sydney |
| Min-Ling Zhang | Southeast University |
| Yu Zheng | Microsoft Research Asia |
| Feida Zhu | Singapore Management University |
Program Committee Members
| Aijun An | York University |
| Naoki Abe | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| Margareta Ackerman | UC San Diego |
| Ankit Agrawal | Northwestern University |
| Leman Akoglu | Stony Brook University |
| Shin Ando | Tokyo University of Science |
| Luiza Antonie | University of Guelph |
| Annalisa Appice | Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro |
| Martin Atzmueller | University of Kassel |
| Rolf Backofen | University of Freiburg |
| Anthony Bagnall | University of East Anglia |
| Nicola Barbieri | Yahoo Labs |
| Christian Bauckhage | Fraunhofer IAIS |
| Rohan Baxter | ATO |
| Roberto Bayardo | |
| Lotfi Ben Romdhane | University of Sousse |
| Sadok Ben Yahia | Faculty of Sciences of Tunis |
| Younes Bennani | University of Paris 13 |
| Bettina Berendt | K.U. Leuven |
| Michael R. Berthold | University of Konstanz |
| Indrajit Bhattacharya | IBM Research India |
| Chiranjib Bhattacharyya | Indian Institute of Science |
| Albert Bifet | Huawei |
| Francesco Bonchi | Yahoo Labs |
| Christian Borgelt | European Centre for Soft Computing |
| Marco Botta | University of Torino |
| Paul Bradley | ZirMed |
| Pavel Brazdil | University of Porto |
| Ceren Budak | Microsoft Research |
| Rajmonda Caceres | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Deng Cai | Zhejiang University |
| Mary Elaine Califf | Illinois State University |
| Longbing Cao | University of Technology Sydney |
| Michelangelo Ceci | University of Bari |
| Loïc Cerf | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Keith Chan | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Vineet Chaoji | Amazon |
| Nitesh Chawla | University of Notre Dame |
| Sanjay Chawla | University of Sydney |
| Arbee L.P. Chen | National Chengchi University |
| Enhong Chen | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Feng Chen | University at Albany-SUNY |
| Ji Chen | eBay |
| Lei Chen | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Ping Chen | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| Shu-Ching Chen | Florida International University |
| Yixin Chen | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Zheng Chen | Microsoft Research Asia |
| Zhiyuan Chen | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Peter Christen | The Australian National University |
| Fu-Lai Chung | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Diane Cook | Washington State University |
| Michele Coscia | Harvard University |
| Bruno Crémilleux | Université de Caen |
| Tom Croonenborghs | KU Leuven |
| Alfredo Cuzzocrea | ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria |
| Ayhan Demiriz | Sakarya University |
| Ying Ding | Indiana University |
| Nemanja Djuric | Yahoo Labs |
| Josep Domingo-Ferrer | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Guozhu Dong | Wright State University |
| Dejing Dou | University of Oregon |
| PETROS DRINEAS | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Wouter Duivesteijn | TU Dortmund |
| Murat Dundar | Indiana University - Purdue University |
| Saso Dzeroski | Jozef Stefan Institute |
| Tapio Elomaa | Tampere University of Technology |
| Vladimir Estivill-Castro | Griffith University |
| Wei Fan | Baidu Big Data Research Lab |
| Chunsheng Victor Fang | Awake Networks |
| Hua Fang | UMass |
| Yi Fang | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Nicola Fanizzi | University of Bari |
| Fabio Fassetti | University of Calabria |
| Esther Galbrun | Boston University |
| Alex Gammerman | Royal Holloway |
| Byron Gao | Texas State University |
| Jing Gao | State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Yong Ge | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis | IBM Research-Ireland |
| Shantanu Godbole | IBM Research |
| Bart Goethals | University of Antwerp |
| Le Gruenwald | University of Oklahoma |
| Francesco Gullo | Yahoo Labs |
| Yuhong Guo | Temple University |
| Maria Halkidi | University of Piraeus |
| Larry Hall | Universtiy of South Florida |
| Haibo He | University of Rhode Island |
| Jingrui He | Arizona State University |
| Qing He | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Xiaofeng He | East China Normal University |
| Shen-Shyang Ho | University of Maryland |
| Tu Bao Ho | JAIST |
| Steven C.H. Hoi | Singapore Management University |
| Lawrence Holder | Washington State University |
| Mahmud Shahriar Hossain | University of Texas at El Paso |
| Andreas Hotho | University of Kassel |
| Heng Huang | University of Texas at Arlington |
| Joshua Huang | Shenzhen University |
| Sheng-Jun Huang | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Dino Ienco | UMR Tetis |
| David Jensen | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Christopher Jermaine | Rice University |
| Shuiwang Ji | Old Dominion University |
| Yan Jia | NUDT |
| Bo Jin | Dalian University of Technology |
| Ruoming Jin | Kent State University |
| Bhargav Kanagal | |
| U Kang | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| Ramakrishnan Kannan | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Murat Kantarcioglu | U. of Texas at Dallas |
| Ben Kao | The University of Hong Kong |
| Kamalakar Karlapalem | IIIT Hyderabad |
| Panagiotis Karras | Skoltech |
| George Karypis | University of Minnesota |
| John Keane | University of Manchester |
| Eamonn Keogh | University of California |
| Kristian Kersting | Technical University of Dortmund |
| Arijit Khan | ETH Zurich |
| Latifur Khan | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| Irwin King | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Xiangnan Kong | Worcestor Polytechnic Institute |
| Walter Kosters | Leiden University |
| Stefan Kramer | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Sergei O. Kuznetsov | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| Jean-Charles Lamirel | TALARIS- LORIA |
| Longin Jan Latecki | Temple University |
| Silvio Lattanzi | |
| Berthold Lausen | University of Essex |
| Gang Li | Deakin University |
| Geng Li | Yahoo! |
| Guoliang Li | Tsinghua University |
| Kang Li | The State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Ming Li | National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology |
| Nan Li | Soochow University |
| Qing LI | City University of Hong Kong |
| Xiaoli Li | Institute for Infocomm Research |
| Xue Li | University of Queensland |
| Yuefeng Li | Queensland University of Technology |
| Ee-Peng Lim | Singapore Management University |
| Hsuan-Tien Lin | National University of Taiwan |
| Jessica Lin | George Mason University |
| Shou-de Lin | National Taiwan University |
| Xuemin Lin | The University of New South Wales |
| Bing Liu | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Chuanren Liu | Drexel University |
| Huan Liu | Arizona State University |
| Qi Liu | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Wei Liu | University of Technology Sydney |
| Xiaohui Liu | Brunel University |
| Xu-Ying Liu | Southeast University |
| Yan Liu | University of Southern California |
| Grigorios Loukides | Cardiff University |
| Chang-Tien Lu | Virginia Tech |
| Haibing Lu | Santa Clara University |
| Claudio Lucchese | ISTI-CNR |
| Simone Ludwig | North Dakota State University |
| Jiebo Luo | University of Rochester |
| Richard Maclin | University of Minnesota-Duluth |
| Arun Maiya | Institute for Defense Analyses |
| Bradley Malin | Vanderbilt University |
| Brandeis Marshall | Spelman College |
| Keith Marsolo | CCHMC |
| Wagner Meira | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Pauli Miettinen | Max-Planck Institut für Informatik |
| Evangelos Milios | Dalhousie University |
| Prasenjit Mitra | Pennsylvania State University |
| Dunja Mladenic | J. Stefan Institute |
| Anna Monreale | Pisa |
| Abdullah Mueen | University of New Mexico |
| Mirco Nanni | ISTI-CNR |
| Sriraam Natarajan | Indiana University Bloomington |
| See-Kiong Ng | A*STAR |
| Vin Nguyen | University of Melbourne |
| Feiping Nie | University of Texas at Arlington |
| Xia Ning | Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Zoran Obradovic | Temple University |
| Salvatore Orlando | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| Riccardo Ortale | ICAR-CNR |
| Spiros Papadimitriou | Rutgers University |
| D.Stott Parker | University of California |
| Dino Pedreschi | University of Pisa |
| Jian Pei | Simon Fraser University |
| Wen-Chih Peng | National Chiao Tung University |
| Jean-Marc Petit | Université de Lyon |
| Bernhard Pfahringer | University of Waikato |
| Pascal Poncelet | Univ. Montpellier II |
| B. Aditya Prakash | Virginia Tech |
| GuoJun Qi | University of Central Florida |
| Buyue Qian | IBM T. J. Watson Research |
| Lu Qin | The University of Technology |
| Vladan Radosavljevic | Yahoo! Labs |
| Davood Rafiei | University of Alberta |
| Chedy Raïssi | INRIA Nancy |
| Ganesh Ramesh | |
| Parisa Rashidi | University of Florida |
| Rajeev Rastogi | Amazon |
| S.S. Ravi | University at Albany - SUNY |
| Chandan K. Reddy | Wayne State University |
| Christophe Rigotti | INSA Lyon / LIRIS |
| Sourav S Bhowmick | Nanyang Technological University |
| Maytal Saar-Tsechansky | University of Texas - Austin |
| Reza Sadoddin | University of Alberta |
| Avishek Saha | Yahoo |
| Lorenza Saitta | Università del Piemonte Orientale |
| Kameshwaran Sampath | IBM Research - India |
| Joerg Sander | University of Alberta |
| Saket Sathe | IBM |
| Friedhelm Schwenker | University of Ulm |
| Saad Sheikh | Bloomberg LP |
| Shashi Shekhar | University of Minnesota |
| Victor Sheng | University of Central Arkansas |
| Shirish Shevade | Indian Institute of Science |
| Kyuseok Shim | Seoul National University |
| Fabrizio Silvestri | ISTI-CNR |
| Gyorgy Simon | University of Minnesota |
| Dan Simovici | University of Massachusetts at Boston |
| Lisa Singh | Georgetown University |
| Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar | Washington State University |
| Yangqiu Song | UIUC |
| Myra Spiliopoulou | University of Magdeburg |
| Ashok Srivastava | Verizon |
| Michael Steinbach | University of Minnesota |
| Karthik Subbian | Facebook Inc. |
| Liang Sun | OPERA Solutions |
| Yizhou Sun | Northeastern University |
| Andrea Tagarelli | University of Calabria |
| Chih-Hua Tai | Academia Sinica |
| Atsuhiro Takasu | National Institute of Informatics |
| Ah-Hwee Tan | Nanyang Technological University |
| Pang-Ning Tan | Michigan State University |
| David Taniar | Monash University |
| Dacheng Tao | University of Technology |
| Masahiro Terabe | Mitsubishi Research Institute |
| Alexandre Termier | University of Rennes |
| Jilei Tian | BMW Technology USA. |
| Kai Ming Ting | Federation University |
| Hanghang Tong | Arizona State University |
| Grigorios Tsoumakas | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| Antti Ukkonen | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health |
| Jaideep Vaidya | Rutgers University |
| Matthijs van Leeuwen | KU Leuven |
| Aparna Varde | Montclair State University |
| Suresh Venkatasubramanian | University of Utah |
| Vassilios Verykios | Hellenic Open University |
| Jilles Vreeken | Saarland University |
| Chang-Dong Wang | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Chi Wang | UIUC |
| Dong Wang | University of Notre Dame |
| Jason T. L. Wang | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Jianyong Wang | Tsinghua University |
| Ke Wang | Simon Fraser University |
| Meng Wang | Hefei University of Technology |
| Ruili Wang | Massey Univ |
| Xiang Wang | |
| Xufei Wang | LinkedIn Corporation |
| Takashi Washio | Osaka University |
| Gary Weiss | Fordham University |
| Ji-Rong Wen | Renmin University of China |
| Tim Weninger | University of Notre Dame |
| Adalbert Wilhelm | Jacobs University Bremen |
| Junjie Wu | BUAA |
| Weili Wu | University of Texas at Dallas |
| Wensheng Wu | UNC Charlotte |
| Xindong Wu | Department of Computer Science University of Vermont |
| Xintao Wu | University of Arkansas |
| Shiming Xiang | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Keli Xiao | Stony Brook University |
| Jierui Xie | Oracle |
| Zhengzheng Xing | Simon Fraser University |
| Guandong Xu | University of Technology |
| Linli Xu | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Zhao Xu | Fraunhofer SCAI |
| Bo Yang | Jilin University |
| Hui Yang | The Ohio State University |
| Jin Soung Yoo | Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne |
| Dantong Yu | Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University |
| Guoxian Yu | Southwest University |
| Jeffrey Xu Yu | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Jian Yu | Beijing Jiaotong University |
| Lei Yu | Binghamton University |
| Yang Yu | Nanjing University |
| Zhiwen Yu | South China University of Technology |
| Aidong Zhang | SUNY at Buffalo |
| Daoqiang Zhang | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Harry Zhang | University of New Brunswick |
| Kun Zhang | Xavier University of Louisiana |
| Peng Zhang | University of Technology |
| Rong Zhang | University of Southampton |
| Shichao Zhang | Zhejiang Gongshang University |
| Shiming Zhang | Noah's Ark Lab |
| Wei Zhang | Fudan University |
| Xiang Zhang | Case Western Reserve University |
| Xiangliang Zhang | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) |
| Yanchun Zhang | Victoria University |
| Yu Zhang | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Zhihua Zhang | Shanghai Jiaotong University |
| Jiabin Zhao | Cisco Systems |
| Aoying Zhou | East China Normal University |
| Wenjun Zhou | University of Tennessee Knoxville |
| Hengshu Zhu | Baidu Research-Big Data Lab |
| Xiaofeng Zhu | Unknown |
| Xingquan Zhu | Florida Atlantic University |
| Yangyong Zhu | Fudan University |
| Hankz Hankui Zhuo | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Albrecht Zimmermann | INSA Lyon |
| Blaz Zupan | University of Ljubljana |