Professor of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow
Winner of the ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award(2004)
Winner of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award(2005)
Winner of the McDowell Award(2009)
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Born in Shanghai, China on 10 August 1949. Han received his BS from University of Science and Technology of China in 1979 and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Computer Science in 1985.He was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.
Han has chaired or served on over 100 program committees of international conferences and workshops, including PC co-chair of 2005 (IEEE), International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Americas Coordinator of 2006 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). He also served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
He teaches courses CS412 – Data Mining and CS512 – Advanced Data Mining at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. His course CS412 – Data Mining is highly popular among students and is over-subscribed in each offering.