PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award 2011
The Distinguished Contribution Award is awarded to a KDD researcher to
recognise and honour an individual who has made significant and
continued contributions in research and services to the advancement of
the PAKDD conferences.
The 2011 award for Most Distinguished Contribution went to Professor
Graham Williams, Director and Senior Data Miner of the Australian
Taxation Office, and Adjunct Professor, Australian National University,
University of Canberra, and Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences. Graham is a key supporter of PAKDD and has
made significant contribution to PAKDD since the inauguration of the
conference. He has served in many roles in the PAKDD conference series.
He has been the Steering Committee Co-Chair and Treasurer since 2001.
He was the Organization Committee Chair of PAKDD 1998, Program Co-Chair
of PAKDD 2001, Industrial Chair of PAKDD 2004 and the Tutorial Chair of
PAKDD 2007. He is also the founder and Steering Committee Co-Chair of
the Australasian Data Mining Conference series. Graham has made
significant technical contributions with considerable success in the
application of data mining technology to real world problems. His
pivotal role in deploying data mining in industry was recognised by the
Australian Taxation Office with an Innovation Award in 2006 and an
Australia Day award in 2007. Graham has published extensively in data
mining in many important conferences and journals. He is the author of
the immensely popular open source Rattle data mining software and a
keen advocate of freely sharing research software. His Internet book
Data Mining Desktop Survival Guide is a highly popular tool book for
data mining practitioners and this will be published shortly under the
title Data Mining with Rattle and R: The Art of Excavating Data for
Knowledge Discover, by Springer.
