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Prof. Martin Ester is one of the most influential and cited data mining scientists in the world. We visited him at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, where he works as a computer science professor. He gave us some insight into his work as well as into the domains of data mining and machine learning in general.
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Martin Ester Martin Ester received a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1989. He has been working for Swissair developing expert systems before he joined University of Munich as an Assistant Professor in 1993. Since November 2001, he has been an Associate Professor, now Full Professor at the School of Computing Science of Simon Fraser University, where he co-directs the Database and Data mining research lab. From May 2010 to April 2015, he has served as the School Director. Dr. Ester has published extensively in the top conferences and journals of his fi eld such as ACM SIGKDD, WWW, ICDM and ACM RecSys. According to Google Scholar, his publications have received more than 20’000 citations. He received the KDD 2014 Test of Time Award for his paper on DBSCAN and was ranked as the number 1 most influential scholar in the area of data mining by AMiner in 2016. Martin Ester’s current research interests include social network analysis, recommender systems, biological network analysis and data mining for personalized medicine.
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Feld, S., Hofbauer, F. Very digital Person: MARTIN ESTER. Digitale Welt 3, 10–13 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42354-019-0143-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42354-019-0143-5