ICDM Contribution Awards

IEEE ICDM 2026 Research Contributions and Outstanding Service Awards

The IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award is given to one individual or group who has made influential research contributions to the field of data mining. The IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award is given to one individual or group who has made major service contributions that have promoted data mining as a field and ICDM as the world's premier research conference in data mining.

ICDM Research Contributions Award

For the Research Contributions Award, each nomination should consist of the following pieces of information:

  • up to 3 significant publications

  • how these publications are relevant to the data mining community in general and to ICDM in particular

  • the broader impacts of these publications, in terms of citations and practical applications.

ICDM Outstanding Service Award

For the Outstanding Service Award, each nomination should include the following pieces of information:

  • up to 3 significant service activities (such as running conferences and journals and facilitating data mining research, development, and applications)

  • how these activities have promoted data mining as a field and ICDM as the world's premier research conference in data mining.

Nomination Guidelines

A nominator can be any researcher in any country, with a possible list of endorsers. The nominator should let the nominee know before a nomination is forwarded to the nomination committee chair. A nominee can be an individual or a group of researchers who have performed the research or service activities together. A nomination for either award can be valid for at most 3 consecutive years until it is either successful or not allowed for a further 2 years before a new submission with new information. An unsuccessful nomination for one year can be re-submitted in each of the following 2 years.

Please send nominations to charu@us.ibm.com with subject line ICDM award nomination

IEEE ICDM 2026 Awards Nomination Committee

  • Charu Aggarwal (Chair), IBM, TJ Watson Research Center, USA

  • Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA

  • Takashi Washio, Kansai University, Japan

  • James Bailey, Monash University, Australia

  • Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China

  • Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA