Charu C. Aggarwal

Charu Aggarwal is a Distinguished Research Staff Member (DRSM) at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He completed his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1993 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. He has worked extensively in the field of data mining, with particular interests in data streams, privacy, uncertain data and social network analysis. He has published 19 (8 authored and 11 edited) books, over 400 papers in refereed venues, and has applied for or been granted over 80 patents. His h-index is 103. Because of the commercial value of the above-mentioned patents, he has received several invention achievement awards and has thrice been designated a Master Inventor at IBM. He is a recipient of an IBM Corporate Award (2003) for his work on bio-terrorist threat detection in data streams, a recipient of the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (2008) for his scientific contributions to privacy technology, and a recipient of an IBM Research Division Award (2008) for his scientific contributions to data stream research. He has received two best paper awards and an EDBT Test-of-Time Award (2014). He has served as the general or program co-chair of the IEEE Big Data Conference (2014), the ICDM Conference (2015), the ACM CIKM Conference (2015), and the KDD Conference (2016). He also co-chaired the data mining track at the WWW Conference 2009. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 2004 to 2008. He is an action editor of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal , an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and an associate editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal. He is an editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. He received the IEEE ICDM Research Contributions award in 2015, and the ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award in 2019, which are the two highest awards in the field of data mining. He is also a recipient of the W. Wallace McDowell award, which is the highest award given solely by the IEEE Computer Society across the field of computer science. He received the distinguished alumnus award from IIT Kanpur in 2023. He is a fellow of the SIAM (2015), ACM (2013) and the IEEE (2010) for "contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining techniques."