The IEEE ICDM 2026 Women Forum brings together researchers and students to celebrate women’s contributions to data science and exchange ideas on research and career development. The programme features invited talks, short research presentations from the Female Scholar and Student Awards finalists, and an open discussion. Researchers of all genders and career stages are welcome.
| Time | Programme | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 10:10–10:15 | Welcome and opening remarks | Women Forum Co-Chairs |
| 10:15–10:45 | Promoting Diversity in Data Mining and Machine Learning Research | Claudia Plant |
| Do What You Love. Let the Rest Follow | My T. Thai | |
| From Research Ideas to Impact: Building a Research Career and Collaborations | Wenjie Zhang | |
| 10:45–12:10 | Finalist research presentations | Young Female Scholar Award: Liyan Song, Qingyun Sun, Shuo Yu, Yalan Qin, Yawen Li; Female Student Award: Chenya Huang, SheoYon Jhin, Xiaojing Du, Xiaoyang Li |
| Open discussion | Forum participants | |
| Closing remarks and group photo | Women Forum Co-Chairs and participants |
Finalists are listed alphabetically by given name within each award category. Presentation participation and order will be confirmed separately. Award recipients will be announced at the conference banquet on November 14, 2026.
Professor
East China Normal University, China
Research interests: Distributed graph data processing; knowledge graphs; sequential recommendation and sequence data analysis; explainability techniques
Professor
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Research interests: Data mining; machine learning; text mining; web intelligence; social network analysis
Dr.
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research interests: Data mining and machine learning, including adaptive unsupervised learning, graph and temporal data mining
Professor
University of Vienna, Austria
Research interests: Clustering and representation learning; anomaly detection; information-theoretic methods; deep learning; graph, time series, and heterogeneous data mining
Research Foundation Professor
University of Florida, USA
Research interests: Trustworthy AI; graph data mining; optimization; security and privacy
Professor
University of New South Wales, Australia
Research interests: Large-scale data management and analytics; graph data processing; complex data processing; data-centric AI
