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SIGKDD Brief ReportUsama Fayyad

Chairman, SIGKDD Executive Committeeusama@fayyad.com

Presented on Behalf of SIGKDD EC by:Ankur Teredesai, Information Officer

Samy Uthurusamy, Awards Chair

Financial Goals• Grow fund balance consistently (maintain > $600K)

– Current balance: over $1M • consistent for 3 years

– Industry contributions to conferences were dropping slowly, but hit a new record high in 2012

– NSF support for student travel awards consistent– Historically, KDD conferences increased our surplus balance

• Support students and outreach– Increased student travel support to KDD conferences– Consistently supported the Bay Area SIGKDD chapter events – including

annual Data Mining Camp since 2010– Increased visibility and amount of Distinguished Dissertation Award– Increased visibility and amount of best student papers awards: research

& applications

Membership Benefits• Conferences

– Several co-sponsored conferences – major discount to KDD conferences• Awards

– Best papers awards, best student papers, distinguished dissertation, Best applications, Innovation, Service awards

• Outreach– Support for students travel, special discounts for students on memberships and on

conferences• Publications

– SIGKDD Explorations newsletter in addition to conferences– Access to DL

• Stabilized membership– Current membership of 1,234

• 5% drop from 2011, All time high 1600+ in 2002

– Student memberships declining – down to 67 – looking for ways to incentivize students to join.

Goal #1: Highest Quality of Research & Application• Building an intellectual community and recognizing excellence within that

community – both research and applied• Publications

– SIGKDD Explorations• 2 regular issues per year, all substantial with 100+ pages and typically each has a

theme/special topic• Always recruit guest editors as a policy• Looking at enhancing the regular sections

– New membership option: Newsletter only– Even though not peer reviewed, it is among top referenced publications!

• Outreach– Enhanced student travel – supported SIGKDD student camp each year– KDD Summer School – standing room only in 2012 and 2011 – designed to catch

students and newcomers to state of research in field – top faculty in world teaching– Increased number and visibility of awards– KDD Cup – recognized as a top competition in the industry

• Awards: recognized as top awards in field for service and innovation in research and applications

Goal #2: Successful KDD Conferences• maintain KDD as the highest quality reference conference in the

field: – 2012 record attendance of over 1200 people – KDD-2011 – 840, KDD-2010 – 790– At height of Internet bubble in Boston KDD-2000 hit 1000 attendees

• sponsorship– WSDM: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining– ICUC: International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management

and Communication• In cooperation: 6 conferences• Created the Industry Practice Expo: invited talks from top

practitioners with high impact applications• Healthy set of workshops 10-15 at each conference, attracting 60 to

300+ attendees each (some are mini-conferences now)• Fully sponsored KDD Cup competition – gets lots of media attention

– Over 900 teams participated this year!!

Goal #3: Engage Practitioners and Public• SIGKDD: primarily a research-supporting organization• Applications are a necessity in our field:

– Elevate recognition for applications:

• Industry/Government Applications track (fully peer reviewed papers)

• IPE Track - Industry Practice Expo (first of its kind invite only forum at an academic conference)

• KDD Cup competition: press visibility

• Recruit students for sustainability– Working on several engagement programs and special benefits: adding job-listings, adding research

directory, adding dissertations listings

• Dedicated professional PR management: paid contractor to drive PR and work with ACM

• Revamp web presence– New social media

– Much improved KDD conference websites

– Revamped SIGKDD web site

Appendix

SIGKDD: Future Plans and Investments

Some Plans: • New Website KDD.org• Data Repository Plans and Towards a Benchmark Collection• Grow the Summer School on Data Mining/BigData

Some Proposals• Enhanced SIGKDD Member Benefits• Computational Infrastructure for Big Data

SIGKDD Memberships   Professional Student Affiliate Total

1999 213 76 95 384

2000 535 226 472 1233

2001 546 260 588 1394

2002 650 206 773 1631

2003 733 193 230 1157

2004 807 164 420 1391

2005 838 149 286 1274

2006 847 122 262 1231

2007 883 116 243 1242

2008 892 90 231 1213

2009 855 91 229 1175

2010 855 107 291 1253

2011 876 96 323 1295

2012 859 67 308 1234

 1234 members – A drop from 2011 high, lower than 2004

• We had 1234 members by June 2012

• This is 5% drop from 2011• Student memberships

dropping dramatically!• We have additional 15

subscribers for newsletter only.

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KDD-201319th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

www.kdd.org/kdd2013 Chicago, IL, USA

August 11-14, 2013

General Conference Co-Chairs:Robert Grossman – University of ChicagoRamasamy (Samy) Uthurusamy – samy@acm.org

Program Committee Co-Chairs:Inderjit Dhillon– University of Tyexas at AustinYehuda Koren – Google / Yahoo! Research

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KDD-201218th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data

Mining

www.kdd.org/kdd2012 Beijing, China

August 12 -16, 2012General Conference Chair:Qiang Yang – Hong Kong University of Sci & Tech/ Huawei

Program Committee Co-Chairs:Deepak Agarwal – LinkedInJian Pei– Simon Fraser University

SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter• Editor-in-Chief:

– Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp goethals@gmail.com

• Associate Editors:– Charu Aggarwal, IBM Watson– Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State U– Ankur Teredesai, U Washington Tacoma

SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter• June 2011

– Privacy in Mobility Data Mining

• December 2011– Educational Data Mining– KDD in China

• June 2012– Data Mining for Healthcare

• Call for contributions– Opinions, Position papers– News– Reports on related conferences– Surveys– Success stories (or failures)– Newsworthy technical

contributions– Systems, software– ...

• KDD Workshop reports appear in online version only

Data RepositoryEffort to be lead by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro: • Those interested in helping should join the Data Repository Effort

Goals• Collect Large Data sets• Design data generators and standard synthetic data for variety of problems• Define set of problems• Capture past KDD Cup data sets, goals, benchmarks and make available• Develop initial proposal for Benchmark problems and metrics

Some Ideas Under Consideration:• Benchmark standards?• Run algorithms in standardized environment over standardized data?