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Prof. Stan Matwin

Professor & Former Director, Institute for Big Data Analytics

Dalhousie University

Knowledge Base

250+ papers · 10,000+ citations

Career Timeline

1977

PhD Computer Science, Warsaw University, Poland

1992

Tenured Professor, University of Ottawa (Chair of CS Dept 1989–2003)

2010

CAIAC Distinguished Service Award; Doctor of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences

2013

Founded Institute for Big Data Analytics, Dalhousie; Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)

2019

CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award

Key Publications

Addressing the Curse of Imbalanced Training Sets: One-Sided Selection (ICML 1997)

Feature Engineering for Text Classification (ICML 1999)

A Crypto-Based Approach to Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Data Mining (ICDMW 2006)

Philosophy

"The real challenge in machine learning isn't building bigger models — it's learning reliably from scarce, imbalanced, and sensitive data."

"Big data is not just a technical problem. It's a societal one — we have a responsibility to ensure it serves people, not just profits."

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Polish-Canadian computer scientist and a pioneer in machine learning from imbalanced data. Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) at Dalhousie and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, he founded the Institute for Big Data Analytics in 2013. He received the 2019 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award, joining the ranks of Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton.

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