ICDM Tao Li Award was established in December 2017. The purpose of the award is to honor Professor Tao Li´s life and accomplishment, and reward excellent early career researchers (individuals either in a doctoral program or who have received a doctoral degree less than 10 years prior to receiving the Award) in the field of data mining and machine learning. Each year, starting from 2018, the ICDM steering committee will form an ad-hoc award committee to select one awardee to receive the Tao Li award. The award, worth $2,000 in check, for one awardee, will be given out once a year at the annual IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). The Tao Li Award was established through public donations, and is managed by the IEEE ICDM steering committee and the FAU Foundation.

• A one-page executive CV of the candidate.
• Response to the above selection criteria (2 pages maximum).
• Certificate showing PhD degree awarding intuition and the time receiving the PhD degree (candidates currently enrolled in a PhD program can submit student ID instead).
• One referee letter with referee's contact details and signatures (preferably NOT applicant´s PhD advisor).
• Applications can include up to two-page additional materials to demonstrate research excellence, impact, and leadership roles, such as citations, press release etc.

1. Dr. Stella Batalama (Florida Atlantic University)
2. Dr. Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)
3. Dr. Dacheng Tao (University of Sydney)
4. Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas at Dallas)
5. Dr. Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
6. Dr. Xindong Wu (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
7. Dr. Mohammed Zaki (University of Rochester)
8. Dr. Xingquan Zhu (Chair, not to vote unless tie. Florida Atlantic University)

For more information about the Tao Li Award or ICDM-2018, please access IEEE ICDM-2018 website.