Aijun An

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
CANADA

Phone: 416 736 2100 x44298
Fax: 416 736 5872

aan at cse dot yorku dot ca

General Information

Research

• Areas of interest: data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.
• Current Research Projects
  • Big Data Research, Analytics, and Information Network (BRAIN), funded by ORF-RE (Ontario Reseasrch Fund - Research Excellence Program).
  • Online Mining of Big Data Streams (funded by NSERC Discovery Grant and NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement)
  • Data and Visual Analytics for Decision Making in Next Generation News Media (funded by NSERC CRD, BRAIN, and The Globe and Mail)
  • Using Machine Learning for Health Risk Assessment (funded by NSERC CRD, BRAIN, and Manifold Data Mining Inc.)
  • Distributed Deep Learning and Graph Analytics (funded by NSERC CRD, BRAIN, and IBM Platform Computing)
  • Developing Smart Conversational Systems (funded by BRAIN and iNAGO Corp.)
• Research Training Programs
  • NSERC CREATE Program on Data Analytics and Visualization (DAV)
  • NSERC CREATE Program on ADERSIM
• Publications
  • Edited Books
  • Journal Papers
  • Book Chapters
  • Conference Papers
• Patents

Teaching

• Winter 2019
  • Data Mining (EECS 4412)

Research Supervision

• Current Supervision
• Past Supervision

Awards

• NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) Award, 2014, 2019.
• Research Leaders Award, York University, 2015.
• The Mildred Baptist Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, 2009.
• Merit Awards, York University. (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
• Best Paper Award at the Thirteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'00).

Professional Service to Academia

• Journal Editorial Service
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS)
  • Associate Editor for Computational Intelligence
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Social Network Mining (IJSNM)
  • Guest Editor for a special issue on information retrieval and databases in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) (2008)
  • Guest Editor for a special issue on intelligent systems in Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) (2008)
• Conference Organizations
  • Program Co-chair for the 2010 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2010)
  • Organizing Co-chair for 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI/IAT 2010)
  • Proceedings Chair for the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'10)
  • Program Co-chair for the Seventeenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS08)
  • Program Co-chair for the Joint Rough Set Conference (JRS'07)
• Service on Conference Program Committees
  • SIGKDD'07, SIGKDD'08, SIGKDD'10, SIGKDD'11, SIGKDD'13, SIGKDD'14, SIGKDD'15, SIGKDD'16, SIGKDD'18 SIGKDD'19
  • VLDB'15, SIGMOD'16, VLDB'18, ICDE'19, ICDE'20
  • IJCAI'18, AAAI'19
  • ICDM'06, ICDM'07, ICDM'09, ICDM'10, ICDM'11, ICDM'12, ICDM'13, ICDM'15, ICDM'16, ICDM'17, ICDM'18
  • SDM'11, SDM'12, SDM'16, SDM'19(SPC)
  • CIKM'08, CIKM'09, CIKM'10, CIKM'11, CIKM'16, CIKM'17.
  • ECML/PKDD'06, ECML/PKDD'11, ECML/PKDD'14, ECML/PKDD'15, ECML/PKDD'16, ECML/PKDD'17, ECML/PKDD'18, ECML/PKDD'19.
  • PAKDD'07, PAKDD'08, PAKDD'09, PAKDD'11, PAKDD'14, PAKDD'15, PAKDD'16, PAKDD'17, PAKDD'18
  • BIBM'07, BIBM'08, BIBM'09, BIBM'11, BIBM'12, BIBM'13
  • ISMIS'06, ISMIS'09, ISMIS'12, ISMIS'14
  • Canadian AI'10, AI'11, AI'13
  • ASONAM'09, ASONAM'10, ASONAM'13, ASONAM'14
  • IEEE GrC'06, GrC'07, GrC'08, GrC'09
  • ADMA'11, ADMA'12
  • ICTAI'11, ICTAI'12