Jiawei Han FRSC[1] (Chinese: 韩家炜; born August 10, 1949) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and writer.
He currently holds the position of Michael Aiken Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Han served as the Director of Information Network Academic Research Center (INARC) supported by Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NSCTA) program of U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) from 2009–2016, and the Co-Director of KnowEng, a BD2k (Big Data to Knowledge) research center funded by NIH in 2014–2019.
He also served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
The book: Han, Kamber and Pei, "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" (3rd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2011) has been popularly used as a textbook worldwide.