- Board Member
Stan Matwin is the Director of the Institute for Big Data Analytics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) at the Faculty of Computer Science. He is also a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, and a State Professor at the Institute for Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds the titles of Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee on AI, and Fellow of the Canadian AI Association (CAIAC). In 2017 Stan Matwin has been elected one of the nine members of the Board of Directors of CS-Can/Info Can, an organization serving as a focal point for computer science research and education in Canada. Internationally recognized for his work in text mining, applications of machine learning, and data privacy, Stan Matwin is a member of the Editorial Boards of leading journals in machine learning and data mining. He is the General Chair of KDD 2017 in Halifax, Canada. Author and co-author of more than 250 refereed papers, and a supervisor of more than 50 graduate students, Stan Matwin has extensive experience and interest in innovation and technology transfer.