About me

Name: Daniel Lemire
Location: Montreal, Canada
Occupation: Full professor (Computer Science)
Employer: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Email: lemire at gmail dot com
Keywords: Database Theory, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Time Series, Text Mining, Collaborative Filtering, eLearning
Social networks: Facebook,   LinkedIn, and Twitter.

I am a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where I teach Computer Science. I used to be a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). 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. I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut de génie biomédical. 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. More recently, I licensed inDiscover.net—a music recommender system—to MSN/Bell Sympatico. I have been on the program committee of several international conferences such as DEXA, ACM RecSys, ICEIS, WEBIST, and AAAI. I am on the editorial board of several journals including the Journal of Computers and the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI). I consider myself an expert programmer: I publish some of my software on Google code.

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.

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Formal bio

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

Daniel Lemire is a Full Professor 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 National Research Council of Canada (NRC) 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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