About me

Name: Daniel Lemire
Location: Montreal, Canada
Occupation: professor, UQAM (tenured)
Email: lemire at acm dot org
Keywords: Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Time Series, Text Mining, Collaborative Filtering, eLearning
English home page
French home page

I enjoy theoretical work having concrete applications: I almost always mix theoretical results with experiments. My research is funded by NSERC and FQRNT.

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, a researcher at LICEF (Cognitive Computing) and a collaborator of the Laboratoire de combinatoire et d’informatique mathématique (LACIM).

I am heavily involved in distance learning, teaching almost exclusively online. I teach Data Warehousing and OLAP, Information Management with XML, Information Retrieval and Filtering and Information Retrieval and the Web.

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 NSERC-funded 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’ve also worked with THEM Geophysics and Falconbridge on some pretty neat 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 feel very lucky to know so many bright people.

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, one called Lohan and the other one called 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.

I blog because it allows me to keep track of the tricks and tips I find, it helps keep my ideas clear, it keeps me in touch with great people, it challenges me, it helps promote some of my work, and, finally, it helps me relax.

Beside this blog, I have a home page where you can find out even more about me.

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

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