| Organization Activities |
- Program Co-Chair of The 21st European Conference on Machine Learning and The 14th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2010)
- Area Chair of The 20th European Conference on Machine Learning and The 13th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2009)
- I was a panelist at ICDM'08! The panel was entitled "Social Networks and Data Mining: Where’s the Beef?" The other panelists were: Tanya Berger-Wolf, Bettina Berendt, Elena Ferrari, Jiawei Han, and Dino Pedreschi. The panel chair was Jean-François Boulicaut.
- Promotion Chair of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009)
- Program Co-Chair of The Second ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD'08)
- Workshop Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008)
- Lecturer for the Second European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing, March 2008, Porto, Portugal.
- Vice Chair of The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007)
- Program Co-Chair of The First ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD'07)
- Lecturer for the First European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing, September 2006, Dortmund, Germany.
- Program Co-Chair of The IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM 2006)
- Tutorial Selection Committee Member of The 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)
- Program Co-Chair of The Fourth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases (KDID 2005)
- Organizing Committee Member of The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2004)
| Program Committees |
- PC Member of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010)
- PC Member of the 19th ACM International Conference on information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010)
- PC Member of the Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2010)
- PC Member of the 19th International WWW Conference (WWW 2010)
- PC Member of the 2010 international Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2010)
- PC Member of ACM 25th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010) - Privacy on the Web Track
- PC Member of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009)
- PC Member of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009 - industrial track)
- PC Member of the 2009 international Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2009)
- PC Member of The 7th International Workshop on Mining and Learning on Graphs (MLG 2009)
- PC Member of The 13th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2009)
- PC Member of The 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009)
- PC Member of 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2009)
- PC Member of ACM 24th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009) - Data Mining Track
- PC Member of the 2nd International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS 2009, EDBT/ICDT workshop)
- PC Member of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008)
- PC Member of The 19th European Conference on Machine Learning and The 12th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2008)
- PC Member of the 10th International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining (HPDM 2008)
- PC Member of the Second International Workshop on the Induction of Process Models (IPM 2008)
- PC Member of the International Workshop on Mining Multidimensional Data (MMD2008)
- PC Member of The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2008)
- PC Member of The 6th International Workshop on Mining and Learning on Graphs (MLG 2008)
- PC Member of The 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2008)
- PC Member of The International Workshop on Practical Privacy Preserving Data Mining (P3DM 2008)
- PC Member of International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS 2008, EDBT workshop)
- PC Member of the 2008 SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SIAM DM 2008)
- PC Member of 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008)
- PC Member of ACM 23rd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) - Data Mining Track
- PC Member of The International Workshop on Constraint-Based Mining and Learning (CMILE 2007)
- PC Member of The 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and The 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2007)
- PC Member of The Third International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2007)
- Reviewer for the journal: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD)
- PC Member of The 5th International Workshop on Mining and Learning on Graphs (MLG 2007)
- PC Member of The 9th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2007)
- PC Member of ACM 22nd Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007) - Data Mining Track.
- PC Member of The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006)
- PC Member of The 17th European Conference on Machine Learning and The 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2006)
- PC Member of The Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases (KDID 2006)
- PC Member of The Second International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2006)
- PC Member of The 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2006)
- PC Member of ACM 21st Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006) - Data Mining Track.
- PC Member of The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2005)
- PC Member of The 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2005)
- PC Member of The First International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2005)
- PC Member of The Third International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases (KDID 2004)
| Reviewer for Journals |
- Reviewer for the VLDB journal (VLDBJ)
- Reviewer for the journal: World Wide Web (WWW)
- Reviewer for the journal: Journal of Web Engineering (JWE)
- Reviewer for the journal: ACM SIGKDD Explorations
- Reviewer for the journal: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
- Reviewer for the journal: ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
- Reviewer for the journal: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD)
- Reviewer for the journal: Information Systems (IS)
- Reviewer for the journal: Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI)
- Reviewer for the journal: Journal of Computer Security (JCS)
- Reviewer for the journal: International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS)
- Reviewer for the journal: Acta Informatica (ACTA)
- Reviewer for the journal: IEEE Computer (IEEE-C)
- Reviewer for the journal: IEEE Intelligent Systems (IEEE-IS)
- Reviewer for the journal: Knowledge and Information Systems - An International Journal (KAIS)
- Reviewer for the journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE-TKDE)
- Reviewer for the journal: IEEE - Internet Computing (IEEE-IC)
- Reviewer for the journal: Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE)
| Awards |
- Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2009), with the paper: P. Boldi, F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, S. Vigna. From "Dango" to "Japanese Cakes": Query Reformulation Models and Patterns.
- Best Student Paper Award at the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), with the paper: M. Potamias, F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, A. Gionis. Fast Shortest Path Distance Estimation in Large Networks.
- Best Student Paper Runner-up at the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), with the paper: M. van Leeuwen, F. Bonchi, A. Siebes, B. Sigurbjörnsson. Compressing Tags to Find Interesting Media Groups.
- ACM-SIGKDD99 Student Travel Award, August 1999, San Diego, CA.
- The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2003) Student Travel Awards provided by IBM Research