KDD 2006 August 20 - 23, 2006    Philadelphia, USA
Organizers:
General Chair
Lyle Ungar - University of Pennsylvania
Program Co-Chairs
Mark Craven - University of Wisconsin
Dimitrios Gunopulos - University of California, Riverside
Proceedings Chair
Tina Eliassi-Rad - LLNL
Local Arrangements Chair
Tony Hu - Drexel University
Treasurer
Jignesh Patel - University of Michigan
Tutorials Chair
Ronen Feldman - Bar-Ilan University
Posters Chair
Rich Caruana - Cornell University
Panels Chair
Jiawei Han - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Exhibits Co-Chairs
Ion Muslea - Language Weaver, Inc.
Dragos Margineantu - The Boeing Company
Student Awards Chair
Thorsten Joachims - Cornell University
Workshops Chair
Sunita Sarawagi - IIT Bombay
Industrial Track Co-Chairs
Usama Fayyad - Yahoo! Inc., USA
Robert Grossman - Open Data Partners & University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
KDD Cup Co-Chairs
Terran Lane - University of New Mexico
Best Paper Awards Chair
Gautam Das - University of Texas at Arlington
Publicity Chair
Mary Crissey - SAS, USA
Web Chair
Teresa Mah - Microsoft Corporation
Demos Chair
Gabor Melli - PredictionWorks Inc.
Registration Chair
Vasileios Megalooikonomou - Temple University
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Karl Rexer - Rexer Analytics
J. Dustin Hux - Elder Research, Inc.
SIGKDD Chair
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro - KDNuggets


Awards Committee:
  • Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors, USA), Chair
  • Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft, USA)
  • Eibe Frank (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand)
  • Jerome Friedman (Stanford Univ., USA)
  • Jiawei Han (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Geoff Webb (Monash Univ., Australia)
  • Ian H. Witten (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand)
  • Xindong Wu (Univ. of Vermont, USA)

  • Research Track - Senior Program Committee:
  • Carla Brodley
  • Soumen Chakrabarti
  • Chris Ding
  • Carlotta Domeniconi
  • Charles Elkan
  • Christos Faloutsos
  • Wei Fan
  • Lise Getoor
  • Johannes Gehrke
  • Venkatesh Ganti
  • Aris Gionis
  • Haym Hirsh
  • David Jensen
  • George Karypis
  • Daniel Keim
  • George Kollios
  • Nick Koudas
  • Rich Maclin
  • Dharmendra Modha
  • Raymond Ng
  • David Page
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan
  • Ramakrishnan Srikant
  • Hannu Toivonen
  • Wei Wang
  • Geoff Webb

  • Research Track - Program Committee:
  • Foto Afrati
  • Tao Li
  • Charu Aggarwal
  • Jessica Lin
  • Eugene Agichtein
  • Huan Liu
  • Deepak Agarwal
  • Bing Liu
  • Brigham Anderson
  • Ling Liu
  • Periklis Andritsos
  • Sheng Ma
  • Chid Apte
  • Sam Madden
  • Vassilis Athitsos
  • Nikos Mamoulis
  • Daniel Barbara
  • Heikki Mannila
  • Sugato Basu
  • Dragos Margineantu
  • Roberto Bayardo
  • Yossi Matias
  • Kristin Bennett
  • Andrew McCallum
  • Ella Bingham
  • Prem Melville
  • Hendrik Blockeel
  • Rosa Meo
  • Joe Bockhorst
  • Dan Miranker
  • Paul Bradley
  • Nina Mishra
  • Phil Chan
  • Rajeev Motwani
  • Xue-wen Chen
  • S.Muthu Muthukrishnan
  • Junghoo Cho
  • Kamal Nigam
  • Vassilis Christophides
  • Christopher Olston
  • Christopher Clifton
  • Beng Chin Ooi
  • Dorin Comaniciu
  • Themis Palpanas
  • Diane Cook
  • Dimitris Papadias
  • Tamraparni Dasu
  • Spiros Papadimitriou
  • Umesh Dayal
  • Srinivasan Parthasarathy
  • Alex Delis
  • Jignesh Patel
  • Luc De Raedt
  • Jian Pei
  • Inderjit Dhillon
  • Jing Peng
  • AnHai Doan
  • Rajeev Rastogi
  • Alin Dobra
  • Ann Ratanamahatana
  • Petros Drineas
  • Bharat Rao
  • Jennifer Dy
  • Soumya Ray
  • Saso Dzeroski
  • Maytal Saar-Tsechansky
  • Martin Ester
  • Cordelia Schmid
  • Alexandre Evfimievski
  • Cyrus Shahabi
  • Tom Fawcett
  • Dennis Shasha
  • Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
  • Christian Shelton
  • Alan Fern
  • Arno Siebes
  • Xiaoli Fern
  • Ambuj Singh
  • Eibe Frank
  • Divesh Srivastava
  • Ada Fu
  • Jaideep Srivastava
  • Glenn Fung
  • Nick Street
  • Stratis Gallopoulos
  • Thorsten Suel
  • Minos Garofalakis
  • Prasad Tadepalli
  • Rayid Ghani
  • Bhavani Thuraisingham
  • Joydeep Ghosh
  • Andrew Tomkins
  • Bart Goethals
  • Peter Triantafillou
  • Alexander Gray
  • Panayiotis Tsaparas
  • Robert Grossman
  • Anthony Tung
  • Sudipto Guha
  • Suresh Venkatasubramanian
  • Marios Hadjieleftheriou
  • Michalis Vazirgiannis
  • Maria Halkidi
  • Alessandro Verri
  • Alexander Hinneburg
  • Michail Vlachos
  • Lawrence Holder
  • Haixun Wang
  • William Hsu
  • Jason Wang
  • Yannis Ioannidis
  • Manfred Warmuth
  • Christopher Jermaine
  • Gerhard Weikum
  • Rong Jin
  • Weng-Keen Wong
  • Tamer Kahveci
  • Stefan Wrobel
  • Hillol Kargupta
  • Xindong Wu
  • Eamonn Keogh
  • Hui Xiong
  • Kristian Kersting
  • Lian Yan
  • Latifur Khan
  • Philip Yu
  • Roni Khardon
  • Lei Yu
  • Ron Kohavi
  • Bianca Zadrozny
  • Ravi Kumar
  • Osmar Zaiane
  • Vipin Kumar
  • Mohammed Zaki
  • Nick Kushmerick
  • Carlo Zaniolo
  • Laks Lakshmanan
  • Zijian Zheng
  • Terran Lane
  • Jerry Zhu
  • Chen Li

  • Industry Track - Program Committee:
  • Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics
  • Pavel Berkhin, Yahoo!
  • Dr. Jie Cheng, Information Resources, Inc.
  • Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
  • Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University
  • Cheryl Howard, Elder Research, Inc.
  • Gabor Melli, PredictionWorks, Inc.
  • Neal J. Rothleder, MITRE Corporation
  • Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell University
  • Joseph Sirosh, PhD, Amazon.com Inc.
  • Chris Volinsky, AT&T Research
  • Robert Cooley, KXEN, Inc.
  • Ted E. Senator, DARPA/IPTO
  • Dan Steinberg, Salford Systems
  • Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Corporation
  • Kenji Yamanishi, NEC Corporation
  • Ronald J. Brachman, Yahoo! Research
  • R. Bharat Rao, Siemens Medical Solutions, CAD Solutions
  • Greg Ridgeway, RAND Statistics Group

  • Webmaster: Teresa Mah