General Chairs

Hiroshi Motoda Osaka University, JAPAN

Fosca Giannotti Information Science and Technology Institute of the National Research Council at Pisa, ITALY

Tomoyuki Higuchi Institute of Statistical Mathematics, JAPAN

Program Chairs — Research Track

Takashi Washio Osaka University, JAPAN

Joao Gama University of Porto, PORTUGAL

Program Chairs — Application Track

Ying Li DataSpark Pte. Ltd., Singapore

Rajesh Parekh Facebook, USA KDD2016 The Hive, USA

Special Session Chairs

Huan Liu Arizona State University, USA

Albert Bifet Telecom ParisTech, FRANCE

Richard D. De Veaux Williams College, USA

Trends & Controversy Chairs

Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago , USA

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

Award Chair

Bamshad Mobasher DePaul University, USA

NGDS (Next Generation Data Scientist) Award Chairs

Kenji Yamanishi University of Tokyo, Japan

Xin Wang University of Calgary, Canada

Travel Awards Chair

Zhexue Huang Shenzhen University, China

Tutorial Chairs

Zhi-Hua Zhou Nanjing University, CHINA

Vincent Tseng National Chiao Tung University, TAIWAN

Panel Chairs

Geoff Webb Monash University, AUSTRALIA

Bart Goethals University of Antwerp, BELGIUM

Invited Industry Talk Chairs

Yutaka Matsuo University of Tokyo, JAPAN

Hang Li Huawei Technologies, HONG KONG

Publicity Chairs

Tu Bao Ho Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, JAPAN

Diane Cook Washington State University, USA

Marzena Kryszkiewicz Warsaw University of Technology, POLAND

Local Organizing Chairs

Satoshi Kurihara University of Electro-Communications, JAPAN

Hiromitsu Hattori Ritsumeikan University, JAPAN

Publication Chair

Toshihiro Kamishima National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, JAPAN

Web Chair

Kouzou Ohara Aoyama Gakuin University, JAPAN

Sponsorship Chairs

Yoji Kiyota LIFULL Co., Ltd., JAPAN	Kiyoshi Izumi University of Tokyo, JAPAN	Tadashi Yanagihara KDDI Research, JAPAN
Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney, AUSTRALIA	Byeong Ho Kang University of Tasmania, AUSTRALIA

Advisory/Steering Committees

Advisory Committee

Usama Fayyad Barclays Bank, UK	Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo, JAPAN	Rao Kotagiri University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Vipin Kumar University of Minnesota, USA	Bengchin Ooi National University of Singapore	Xin Yao University of Birmingham, UK
Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago , USA

Steering Committee

Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney, AUSTRALIA	Hiroshi Motoda Osaka University, JAPAN	Geoff Webb Monash University, AUSTRALIA
Osmar Zaiane University of Alberta, CANADA	Vincent Tseng National Chiao Tung University, TAIWAN	Limsoon Wong National University of Singapore
Eric Gaussier Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, FRANCE	Jian Pei Simon Fraser University, CANADA	Diane Cook Washington State University, USA
Bart Goethals University of Antwerp, BELGIUM	Ming-Syan Chen National Taiwan University, TAIWAN