Prof. Philippe Fournier-Viger

Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) (China)

Biography

Philippe Fournier-Viger (Ph.D) is a Canadian researcher, full professor and director of the Center of Innovative Industrial Design (CIID) at the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China. Five years after completing his Ph.D., he came to China and became full professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), after obtaining a title of national talent from the National Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 250 research papers in refereed international conferences and journals, which have received more than 4500 citations. He is the founder of the popular SPMF open-source data mining library, which provides more than 170 algorithms for identifying various types of patterns in data. The SPMF software has been used in more than 630 papers since 2010 for many applications from chemistry, smartphone usage analysis restaurant recommendation to malware detection. He is editor of the book “High Utility Pattern Mining: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” published by Springer in 2019, and co-organizer of the Utility Driven Mining and Learning workshop at KDD 2018 and ICDM 2019.  His research interests include data mining, industrial design, frequent pattern mining, sequence analysis and prediction, big data, and applications.