| Tomasz Imieliński | |
|---|---|
| Born | Toruń, Poland |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Rutgers University[1] |
| Alma mater | Politechnika Gdańska |
| Doctoral advisor | Witold Lipski [2] |
| Doctoral students | Anthony Bonner,[3] Jan Chomicki,[4] Samir Goel [5] |
| Known for | data mining, mobile computing |
| Notable awards | 2003 SIGMOD Test of Time Award;[6] 10 year VLDB Best Paper Award.[7] |
Tomasz Imieliński (b. in Toruń, Poland) is a professor of computer science at Rutgers University and Executive Vice President at Ask.com. He served as chairman of the computer science department at Rutgers from 1996 to 2003. In 2000, he co-founded Connotate Technologies [8] – a web data extraction company based in New Brunswick, NJ.
His joint paper with Agrawal and Swami [9] started the Association rule mining research area,[10] and is one of the most cited publications in computer science,[11] with over 9400 citations according to Google Scholar. This paper received the 2003 - 10 year Test of Time ACM SIGMOD award.
Imielinski has also been one of the pioneers of mobile computing and for his joint paper with Badri Nath [12] he received the Ten Year VLDB Best Paper award in 2002.
At Ask.com he is leading answer technologies – building the largest index of the questions and answer pairs which recently exceeded 300 million mark.
Imielinski has been also a founder and member of the band System Crash where he played guitar and wrote songs.
Imieliński graduated with B.E/M.E degree in Electrical Engineering from Politechnika Gdańska and received a doctorate in Computer Science from Polish Academy of Sciences, in Poland.