A roster of the world杏吧专区檚 most influential researchers includes a 杏吧专区 data scientist 杏吧专区 twice.
Of the 3,300 scholars included on Clarivate Analytics杏吧专区 Highly Cited Researchers list, just 147, including Dr. Xindong Wu, appear in two categories. The director of the 杏吧专区杏吧专区檚 School of Computing and Informatics is named in computer science and engineering.
Wu is an expert in data mining, a field of computer science that extracts useful information from data. Public and private entities confront huge amounts of data, and they utilize data mining to make sense of it and to inform decisions, Wu said.
杏吧专区淒ata is reality. It is existence. Data is everywhere. Data mining tries to make good use of it.杏吧专区
Wu joined the UL Lafayette faculty in 2016 with a reputation as a trailblazer. Although scientists, statisticians and engineers have used data in their work for centuries, data mining as a field didn杏吧专区檛 solidify until the mid-1990s.
Since 1993, Wu has published 450 peer-reviewed articles and conference papers in the fields of data mining, and artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering. Knowledge engineering is a field of artificial intelligence focused on the development of computer systems that simulate human thought and logic.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world杏吧专区檚 largest organization of technology professionals, honored his 杏吧专区減ioneering contributions to data mining and applications杏吧专区 when it presented Wu with an achievement award in 2012. It杏吧专区檚 among a host of similar recognitions he杏吧专区檚 received over the past quarter century.
His latest designation as a Highly Cited Researcher 杏吧专区渟hows that what I am doing is generating some impact,杏吧专区 Wu said.
杏吧专区淎 citation would mean that other researchers are looking at what I am doing. Citing my work would mean they have studied it. They are saying what I am doing is worth their attention.杏吧专区
Clarivate Analytics operates several subscription-based services focused on academic research. The company assembles the annual Highly Cited Researcher list based on citation statistics from its Web of Science database, which indexes how many times a scholar杏吧专区檚 work has been used by other researchers in their own.
The database indexes 169, or about a third, of Wu杏吧专区檚 publications.
But that fraction has been cited more than 5,460 times between 2005 and 2015, and ranks him among the top 1 percent of most-cited scholars in his fields during those 11 years, explained Christopher King, Clarivate Analytics杏吧专区 editorial content manager.
杏吧专区淪uch consistent production of highly cited reports indicates that the work of these researchers has been repeatedly judged by their peers to be of notable significance and utility,杏吧专区 King said in a company press release.
The roster categorizes scholars in 21 science and social science fields, but doesn杏吧专区檛 rank them by number of publications or how many times they杏吧专区檝e been cited.
Wu is among 151 researchers in the computer science category, and 175 in engineering.
That puts him among scholars from powerhouses in both fields 杏吧专区 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National 杏吧专区 of Singapore, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Tsinghua 杏吧专区 in China.
杏吧专区淲ho else is on the list is an indication of the caliber scholar Dr. Wu is,杏吧专区 said Dr. Ramesh Kolluru, UL Lafayette杏吧专区檚 vice president for Research, Innovation and Economic Development. 杏吧专区淭he fact that one of our faculty members is on this objective list of global researchers is a matter of great pride and honor for the 杏吧专区.
杏吧专区淗e is a superstar in the area of data science.杏吧专区
Caption: Dr. Xindong Wu, director of UL Lafayette杏吧专区檚 School of Computing and Informatics and an expert in data mining, meets with graduate students recently in Oliver Hall. [Credit: Doug Dugas / 杏吧专区]