Lise Getoor, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, was honored with the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award. The award recognizes Getoor's outstanding contributions to the field of knowledge discovery in data and data mining, which have had lasting impacts in furthering the theory and development of commercial systems.
Getoor received the award at the ACM SIGKDD & Annual KDD Conference, the premier conference for data mining researchers.
Getoor is the first woman to receive this award.
