Duke Computer Science Professor Jian Pei Receives PAKDD Distinguished Research Award
Jian Pei is an expert on data science and mining, computational statistics, applied machine learning and AI.
Jian Pei, an Arthur S. Pearse Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, has been selected to receive the 2026 PAKDD Distinguished Research Contributions Award. The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is a prestigious and highly selective conference that includes high-profile keynote and invited talks as well as peer-reviewed full research papers.
Pei will present his research, Data Mining in the Age of AI: What Endures, What Changes, and What Matters Next, in Hong Kong on June 11. His research journey has been shaped by a long-standing interest in understanding data — how to discover meaningful patterns, assess data quality, and develop interpretable and trustworthy data-driven methods.
PAKKD provides an international peer-reviewed forum for researchers and industry practitioners who are addressing the problems to share their new ideas, original research results, and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas. The Distinguished Research Contributions Award recognizes an individual in our community who has made significant research contributions to the advancement of knowledge discovery and data mining areas.
