About me

Name: Daniel Lemire
Location: Montreal, Canada
Occupation: Full professor
Employer: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Email: lemire at gmail dot com
Political views: Anarchism
Religious views: Absurdism

Keywords: Database Theory, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Time Series, Text Mining, Collaborative Filtering, eLearning

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I am a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where I teach computer science. UQAM is the largest largest French-speaking university in the world by the number of students: it has nearly 55,000 students. I’m also an adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick and a researcher at LICEF (Cognitive Computing). My research is funded by NSERC, CFI and FQRNT.

I teach almost exclusively online. I teach Data Warehousing and OLAP, Information Management with XML, Information Retrieval and Filtering and Information Retrieval and the Web (INF 6104). INF 6104 is the first graduate course in Computer Science to be offered entirely online in Quebec.

I used to be an eBusiness researcher at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and I have been an assistant professor at Acadia University.

I have a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the École Polytechnique and the Université de Montréal. My thesis was on wavelets. I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut de génie biomédical where I worked on signal processing: I proposed a way to detect myocardial ischemia using wavelets.

I have also been an entrepreneur. One of my claims to fame is the Waaves wavelet format used at the National Radiology Server in France. It has been said to outperform JPEG 2000 significantly. I have also worked with THEM Geophysics and Falconbridge on wavelet-based geophysical signal processing software used to find minerals. Recently, I licensed inDiscover.net, a music recommender system, to MSN/Bell Sympatico.

I work with several researchers including Owen Kaser (UNB), Yuhong Yan (NRC), Martin Brooks (NRC), Harold Boley (NRC), Will Fitzgerald (was with NASA-Ames and now at Powerset), Dan Kucerovsky (UNB)…

I run Linux and Mac OS X. I enjoy programming in a wide range of languages (Java, Python, C++, XSLT…) and I consider myself an expert programmer.

I have two sons, Lohan and Louka. I have a cat called Jolie and a small house in the suburbs. I’m very lucky to have a great family. I love my wife. She is beautiful.

Watch a TV interview (in French) done with me in 2001:

Formal bio

When requested to provide a formal bio, I use this:

Daniel Lemire is a full professor in Computer Science at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) and an adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick. He is a member of the research center in Cognitive Computer Science LICEF. Previously, he was a research officer at the NationalResearch Council of Canada where he lead the e-Health Research Group, and an assistant professor at Acadia University. He was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Biomedical Engineering Institute. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Université de Montréal. His research interests include Collaborative Data Management, Information Filtering and Retrieval, Database Theory, e-Learning, and Data Warehousing.

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