A conversation with Professor Zhongzhi Shi

Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD) or Data Mining is a broad area that integrates techniques from several fields including machine learning, statistics, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and database systems, for the analysis of large volumes of data. There have been a large number of data mining algorithms rooted in these fields to perform different data analysis tasks. In China, we can divide KDD into 3 milestones: one that is related to machine learning algorithms, one for integrated knowledge discovery from datasets, and one for distributed and parallel KDD.