Claudia Plant

University of Vienna
Claudia Plant

Claudia Plant

University of Vienna

Biography

Since January 2016 Claudia Plant is full professor for Data Mining at University of Vienna.  Her research focuses on database-related data mining, especially clustering, parameter-free data mining, and integrative mining of heterogeneous data. She explores information-theoretic concepts for turning data into actionable knowledge with results being published at the top-level data mining conferences, e.g. KDD, ICDM and IEEE BigData and three Best Paper Awards. Results from interdisciplinary projects with experts from biology, neuroscience, and environmental engineering are have been published in leading journals such as Bioinformatics, Cerebral Cortex, and Water Research. In 2013, Claudia Plant obtained a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group, a German excellence program which offers funding for an independent research group. From 2010-2013 she has been visiting professor at Florida State University funded by a Feodor Lynen research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She spent further research visits at National University of Singapore and Carnegie Mellon University.

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