About me
Manager, Software Tools and Techniques
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Philip S. Yu received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from New York University. He is currently the manager of the software tools and techniques group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. His research interests include data mining, data stream processing, database systems, Internet applications and technologies, multimedia systems, parallel and distributed processing, and performance modeling. Philip has published more than 450 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He holds or has applied for more than 250 US patents.
Philip is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He is associate editor of ACM Transactions on the Internet Technology and ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data. He is a member of the IEEE Data Engineering steering committee and is also on the steering committee of IEEE Conference on Data Mining. He was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2001-2004), an editor, advisory board member and also a guest co-editor of the special issue on mining of databases. He had also served as an associate editor of Knowledge and Information Systems. In addition to serving as program committee member on various conferences, he will be serving as the general chair of 2006 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management and the program chair of the 2006 joint conferences of the 8th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 06) and the 3rd IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE' 06). He was the program chair or co-chairs of the 11th IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering, the 6th Pacific Area Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, the 9th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, the 2nd IEEE Intl. Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Transaction and Query Processing, the PAKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Advanced Databases, and the 2nd IEEE Intl. Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems. He served as the general chair of the 14th IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering and the general co-chair of the 2nd IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Mining. He has received several IBM honors including 2 IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2 Research Division Awards and the 85th plateau of Invention Achievement Awards. He received an Research Contributions Award from IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Mining in 2003 and also an IEEE Region 1 Award for "promoting and perpetuating numerous new electrical engineering concepts" in 1999. Philip is an IBM Master Inventor.
Last updated 25 Jan 2006