• Organisation & Invited Talks
  
  • Program Chair of IEEE ICDM 2025, Washington DC, USA.
  • Panel Chair of SIAM SDM 2019, Calgary, Canada.
  • Tutorial Chair of SIAM SDM 2017, Houston, USA.
  • Program Chair of ECML PKDD 2016, Riva del Garda, Italy.
  • Publicity Co-Chair of ACM IUI 2015, Atlanta, USA.
  • Sponsorship Co-Chair of ECML PKDD 2014, Nancy, France.
  
  • Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE ICDM 2012, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Organiser of the CECAM Workshop AI for Materials Science, June 2021, online.
  • Organiser of the Max Planck BigMax Summer School 2019 on Data-Driven Materials Discovery, Platja d'Aro, Spain.
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2019 Workshop on Learning and Mining for Cybersecurity (LEMINCS), Anchorage.
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2017 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), Halifax.
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2016 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), San Francisco.
  
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2015 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), Sydney, AU.
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2014 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), NYC, USA.
  • Organiser of the International Workshop Data Mining: Beyond the Horizon, November 2014, Bristol, UK.
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2013 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), Chicago, USA.
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2013 Workshop on Outlier Detection and Description (ODD), Chicago, USA.
  • Organiser of the ECML PKDD 2012 Workshop on Instant Interactive Data Mining (IID), Bristol, UK.
  
  • Organiser of the ACM SIGKDD 2010 Workshop on Useful Patterns (UP), Washington DC, USA.
  • Lecturer of the SDM 2025 Tutorial on Causal Discovery in a Non-Ideal World, Alexandria, Virginia.
  • Lecturer at the BigMax 2023 Summer School on Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science, Platja d'Aro, Spain.
  • Lecturer of the ACM SIGKDD 2019 Tutorial on Modern MDL meets Data Mining, Anchorage, Alaska.
  • Lecturer of the IEEE ICDM 2018 Tutorial on Summarizing Graphs at Multiple Scales, Singapore.
  • Lecturer of the SIAM SDM 2015 Tutorial on Information Theoretic Methods in Data Mining, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Lecturer of the ECML PKDD 2014 Tutorial on Information Theoretic Methods in Data Mining, Nancy, France.
  
  • Lecturer of the IEEE ICDM 2011 Tutorial on Mining Sets of Patterns, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Lecturer of the ECML PKDD 2010 Tutorial on Mining Sets of Patterns, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Keynote at the SciCAR conference Science Meets Computer Assisted-Reporting, Nov 2-3 2020, Dortmund.
  • Keynote at the DSN workshop on Data-Centric Dependability and Security, Jun 29 2020, Valencia.
  • Keynote at the EuADS Summer School on Explainable Data Science, Sep 10-13 2019, Luxemburg.
  • Keynote at the NOMAD Summer School on Materials Discovery, Sep 24-27 2018, Laussane, Switzerland.
  
  • Keynote at the ETAPS workshop Causation, Responsibility, and Explanation, April 20 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Keynote at the DPG symposium Exploiting the Raw Material of the 21st Century, Mar 15 2018, Berlin, Germany.
  • Keynote at the CECAM Big-Data Driven Materials Science workshop, Sep 11-13 2017, Laussane, Switzerland.
  • Keynote at the International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, June 14-16 2017, Rennes, France.
  • Keynote at the IRISA PEPS Prefute Symposium, October 26 2016, Rennes, France.
  • Keynote at the ECML PKDD 2016 PhD Forum, September 19 2016, Riva del Garda, Italy.
  
  • Keynote at the LORIA Mathematics for Decision and Discovery symposium, May 11 2016, Nancy, France.
  • Keynote at the SFB 876 Graduate School Lecture Series, April 14 2016, Dortmund, Germany.
  • Keynote at the Estonian Summer School on Computer and System Science (ESSCaSS'15).
    
    
    
    
  • Keynote at the SFB 1102 Scientific Retreat, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 28 2015.
    
  • Keynote at the GradUS opening event on June 15 2015, Saarbrücken.
    
  
  • Keynote at the SFB 1102 Workshop on Data Mining for Linguistic Analysis, March 13 2015, Saarbrücken.
  • Keynote at the IEEE ICDM 2013 PhD Forum, Dallas, Texas.
  • Keynote at the IEEE ICDM 2011 Workshop on Data Mining for Computational Collective Intelligence.
  • Keynote at the ECML PKDD 2008 Workshop From Local Patterns to Global Models, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Awards
  • IEEE ICDM'18 Tao Li Award for Excellence in Research.
  • IEEE ICDM'18 Best Paper Award for 'Discovering Reliable Dependencies from Data'.
  • UdS-CS'15 Busy Beaver Teaching Award for 'Topics in Algorithmic Data Analysis'.
  • ACM SIGKDD'11 Best Student Paper Award for 'Tell Me What I Need to Know'.
  • ACM SIGKDD'10 Doctoral Dissertation Runner-Up Award for 'Making Pattern Mining Useful'.
  • ECML PKDD'09 Best Student Paper Award for 'Identifying the Components'.
• Grants
  
  • PI of Neuro-Explicit Models of Language, Vision and Action (RTG, DFG) ('23–'28)
  • PI of Crushing Antimicrobial Resistance using Explainable AI (HAICU, Helmholtz Association) ('21–'24)
  • PI of Trusted Federated Data Analytics (Pilot Project, Helmholtz Association) ('20–'23)
  • Deputy-PI of BigMax (MaxNet, Max Planck Society) ('16–'23)
  • Independent Research Group 'Exploratory Data Analysis' at the Cluster of Excellence MMCI at U.Saarland ('13–'18).
  • Research Project 'Instant, Interactive & Adaptive Data Mining' of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) ('12–'15).
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) ('10–'13).
  • UA-BOF-IWS Postdoctoral Fellowship ('09–'10)
• Editorial Board Memberships
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI) since '15.
  • Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) since '20.
  • Guest Editorial Board for the ECML PKDD Journal Track '13–'22.
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue on `Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics' of
    Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (TKDD)
• Program Committees
  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) '10–'25, area chair '19–'20, '24–'25
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) '12–'22, area chair '21–'22, program chair '25
  • AAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), '20–'24, area chair '20,'23
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) '17–'25, area chair '24–'25
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) '25
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) '18–'25
  • Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), '22–'25
  • Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR) '25
  • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery
    in Databases (ECML PKDD) '08–'25, area chair '14,'18–'25, program chair '16
  • SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM) '10–'25, area chair '19–'25
  • Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), '21
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), area chair '19
  • International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) '16
  Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) senior PC '15
  European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) '14
  ACM International Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM) '12–'13
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) '13
  International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) '12
• Journal Reviewing
  • Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (TKDD)
  • Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Journal of Maching Learning Research (JMLR)
  • Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (SAM)
  • Maching Learning journal (MLj)
  • Information Systems (IS)
  • Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
  • Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
  • Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)

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