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About the Authors

Jiawei Han is a Bliss Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received numerous awards
for his contributions on research into knowledge discovery and data mining, including
ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (2004), IEEE Computer Society Technical Achieve-
ment Award (2005), and IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award (2009). He is a Fellow of
ACM and IEEE. He served as founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Know-
ledge Discovery from Data (2006–2011) and as an editorial board member of several jour-
nals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and Data Mining
and Knowledge Discovery.
Micheline Kamber has a master’s degree in computer science (specializing in artifi-
cial intelligence) from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She was an NSERC
Scholar and has worked as a researcher at McGill University, Simon Fraser University,
and in Switzerland. Her background in data mining and passion for writing in easy-
to-understand terms help make this text a favorite of professionals, instructors, and
students.

Jian Pei is currently an associate professor at the School of Computing Science, Simon
Fraser University in British Columbia. He received a Ph.D. degree in computing sci-
ence from Simon Fraser University in 2002 under Dr. Jiawei Han’s supervision. He has
published prolifically in the premier academic forums on data mining, databases, Web
searching, and information retrieval and actively served the academic community. His
publications have received thousands of citations and several prestigious awards. He is
an associate editor of several data mining and data analytics journals.

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