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Leman Akoglu

Associate Professor with Tenure

Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

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  • Associate Professor with Tenure
    Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
  • (412) 268-3043 (Work)
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College of Information Systems, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) AI4Sciences Track
    8 Feb 2026
    Chair
  • CMU COMMITTEE SERVICE
    AIMP (AI for Management and Policy) Master’s Programs Development Committee Member
    2 Nov 2025
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    ACM SIGKDD Executive Committee
    1 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
    Elected member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    19th Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks (WAW 2024)
    1 Jan 2024
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
    1 Jan 2024
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
    1 Jan 2024
    Chair
  • OTHER SERVICE
    Reviewer for DOE Scientific Machine Learning for Complex Systems
    1 Jun 2023
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    6th ACM SIGKDD 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance
    1 Jan 2023
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
    1 Jan 2023
    Co-chair
  • CMU COMMITTEE SERVICE
    AIMP (AI for Management and Policy) Master’s Programs Development
    1 Jan 2023
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    1 Jan 2023
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Best Papers Awards Committee, ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
    1 Jan 2023
    Member
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Lingxiao Zhao
    1 Jan 2023
    Lingxiao Zhao receives 2023-24 Daniel and Rise Nagin Dissertation Fellowship
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Awards Committee (Best Papers & Early Career Award) SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
    1 Jan 2022
    Member
  • CMU COMMITTEE SERVICE
    CMU Research Computing Advisory Committee (RCAC), Heinz College Rep.
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
    1 Jan 2022
    Co-chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
    1 Jan 2022
    Co-chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) - Program Committee
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    Co-chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    Member
  • AWARDS / RECOGNITION
    IJCAI 2021 Early-Career Spotlight
    1 May 2021
  • AWARDS / RECOGNITION
    SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Research Award
    1 Apr 2021
  • CMU COMMITTEE SERVICE
    University Committee on Non-Tenure Appointments
    1 Mar 2021
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - Tutorials Committee
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
    Co-chair
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2021
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021