Philippe Fournier-Viger

Philippe Fournier-Viger

Philippe Fournier-Viger (Ph.D) is a Canadian researcher, full professor 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 290 research papers in refereed international conferences and journals, which have received more than 6400 citations. He is associate editor-in-chief of the Applied Intelligence journal (SCI, Q2) and editor-in-chief of Data Science and Pattern Recognition. He is also the founder of the popular SPMF open-source data mining library, which provides more than 190 algorithms for identifying various types of patterns in data, and has been used in more than 830 papers since 2010. He is editor of the book "High Utility Pattern Mining: Theory, Algorithms and Applications" published by Springer in 2019, and co-organizer of several workshops and special tracks such as the Utility Driven Mining and Learning workshop.

Title: Advances and Challenges for the Automatic Discovery of Interesting Patterns in Data