Jiawei Han

Jiawei Han is the Michael Aiken Chair Professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in data mining, text mining, and intelligent systems, leading the Data Mining Research Group (DMG) and the Data and Information Systems Research Laboratory (DAIS).
Education: Ph.D. (1985) in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research Interests: Focuses on advancing data mining methodologies, including heterogeneous information networks, social media analysis, and knowledge discovery in cyberphysical systems. His work bridges theoretical foundations with applications in genomics, bioinformatics, and geospatial understanding.

Projects & Grants:

• NSF AI Institute for Molecular Discovery (Molecule Maker Lab)
• NSF I-GUIDE (Geospatial Understanding via Integrative Discovery)
• DARPA INCAS/KAIROS (Event Schema Reasoning)

Teaching:

• CS412: Data Warehousing & Mining
• CS512: Data Mining Principles
• CS598JH: Text Mining with LLMs (Fall 2024)

Labs & Teams: Directs DMG and DAIS labs, fostering collaborative research in multidimensional data analysis and structure-rich networks.