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Osmar Zaiane

Osmar R. Zaïane

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  • Canada CIFAR AI Chair
  • Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

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University of Alberta

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About

Osmar Zaïane is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, a fellow at Amii, and a professor at the University of Alberta’s Department of Computing Science. 

Zaïane  focuses on pattern discovery and information extraction from large databases, also known as data mining. His work involves data mining from disparate heterogeneous data sources, such as on the Internet, as well as the analysis of complex information networks, also known as social network analysis. He focuses on building applications that can improve decision making in fields from business to medicine, allowing decisions to be based on data and data analysis. Through the application of machine learning and methods of knowledge discovery, he devises ways to personalize applications, automate processes and improve upon current data science practices.

Awards

  • Best Paper Award, the International Conference on Intelligence Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, 2019
  • Great Supervisor Award, University of Alberta, 2018
  • Best Paper Award, the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2018
  • Outstanding Paper Award, 5th International Conference on Educational Technologies, 2017
  • Best Paper Award, the International Conference on Brain Informatics, 2017
  • Best Paper Award, the IEEE International Conferences on Digital Economy, 2016
  • Best Paper Award, 13th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2013
  • ACM – SGKDD Service Award, 2010
  • ACM – SGKDD Service Award, 2010
  • IEEE – ICDM Outstanding Service Award, 2009
  • McCalla Research Professorship, 2008

Relevant Publications

  • Jiang, H., Cao, P., Xu, M., Yang, J., & Zaïane, O. (2020). Hi-GCN: A hierarchical graph convolution network for graph embedding learning of brain network and brain disorders prediction. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 127, 104096.

  • Gharaghooshi, S. Z., Zaïane, O. R., Largeron, C., Zafarmand, M., & Liu, C. (2020). Addressing the resolution limit and the field of view limit in community mining. In International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (pp. 210-222). Springer, Cham.

  • Bellinger, C., Sharma, S., Japkowicz, N., & Zaïane, O. R. (2019). Framework for extreme imbalance classification: SWIM—Sampling with the majority class. Knowledge and Information Systems, 1-26.

  • Farruque, N., Zaïane, O., & Goebel, R. (2019). Augmenting Semantic Representation of Depressive Language: From Forums to Microblogs. In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (pp. 359-375). Springer, Cham.

  • Huang, C., Zaïane, O. R., Trabelsi, A., & Dziri, N. (2018). Automatic dialogue generation with expressed emotions. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers) (pp. 49-54).

Institution

  • Amii
  • University of Alberta

Department

Computing Science

Education

  • PhD (Computing Science), Simon Fraser University
  • MSc (Computing Science), Laval University
  • MSc (Electronics), Paris-Sud University
  • BSc (Computing Science and Management), University of Tunis

Country

  • Canada

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