Research Areas

  • Data Mining in Social Media
  • Recommendation in Social Media
  • Inference of Social Networks from User Actions
  • Opinion Mining from Online Product Reviews
  • Data Mining in Biological Networks
  • Discovery of Cancer Markers from Gene Expression and Variation Data
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" Proverbs 1:7, The Bible
Welcome! My name is Martin Ester, and I am a Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. I got my Diplom (M.Sc.) in Computer Science from University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1984 and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1990.

I am a co-director of the Databases and Data Mining Laboratory.

Currently I have the privilege to serve as Director of our School of Computing Science.

Since my move to Vancouver in 2001, I am enjoying the many hiking trails around the Vancouver area. Actually, our campus lies in the middle of the "wilderness" of the Burnaby Mountain conservation area, and I am commuting to and from work on my mountain bike. . .

Check out my website for further information about my research, teaching and service!
News

16/12/2011 - The slides of our ICDM 2011 tutorial have been posted here. Enjoy!

21/11/2011 - After a long break, caused by my increasing business, I have finally found the time to update my website again. Hope to be able to maintain it in the future, stay tuned!

12/09/2011 - My PhD student Mohsen and I will present a tutorial on "Mining Social Networks for Recommendation" at ICDM 2011 in Vancouver on December 12, 2011.



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