• I served as the mentor for Matthew Piekenbrock’s Google Summer of Code project Estimating the Empirical Cluster Tree. R-package clustertree (Summer 2017).

  • I taught an invited short course on Recommendation Tools at the IESEG School of Management in Lille, France (May 23-26, 2016).

  • I presented an invited talk with the title “Recommender Systems: Harnessing the Power of Personalization” at the Southwest Airlines EDGe Analyst Community Meeting on November 18, 2015.

  • I presented a tutorial with the title “Association Rule Mining: Introduction to the R package arules” at the 2015 March meeting of the Dallas R Users Group in Dallas, Texas (slides and code).

  • I co-organize the Data Mining stream at the 2015 INFORMS Computing Society Conference (ICS). Submission deadline is September 15.

  • We are running real-time hurricane intensity predictions for the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season using an advanced data stream modeling technique.

  • A team of student from IDA@SMU (under my supervision) wins IBM’s 2014 The Great Mind Challenge - Watson Edition, a national data mining competition with 62 participating teams.

IDA Team