2026 Jiawei Han: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	202	267	251	176	164	1509	240882
Computer Science	197	6	6	3	3	1265	232291

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2009 - W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society For significant contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining.
2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to data mining and knowledge discovery
2004 - Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society For contributions in data mining and knowledge discovery, data warehousing, deductive and object-oriented databases
2003 - ACM Fellow For contributions in knowledge discovery and data mining.

Overview

Jiawei Han is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans various topics within medicine, with a particular focus on surgery, artificial intelligence, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, mechanical engineering, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist has contributed to the following main fields of study:

Medicine

More specifically, their work concentrates on subfields including:

Surgery
Artificial Intelligence
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Mechanical Engineering
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Jiawei Han has addressed topics such as:

Hip disorders and treatments
Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
ECG Monitoring and Analysis
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jiawei Han include:

"Lung segmentation and automatic detection of COVID-19 using radiomic features from chest CT images," 2021, published in Pattern Recognition
"A novel method for ECG signal classification via one-dimensional convolutional neural network," 2020, Multimedia Systems
"An approach for fully automatic femoral neck-shaft angle evaluation on radiographs," 2020, Review of Scientific Instruments
"A Novel Method for ECG Signal Classification via One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Comparing two different automatic methods to measure femoral neck-shaft angle based on PointNet++ network," 2022, Scientific Reports

Jiawei Han's frequent publication venues include:

Proceedings of WCSE 2022 Spring Event: 2022 9th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications
Pattern Recognition
Multimedia Systems
Review of Scientific Instruments
Scientific Reports

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, most notably:

Xiaoying Pan
Zhao Chen
Zhuo He
Jinshan Tang
Weihua Zhou

Jiawei Han has received recognition from multiple professional organizations. Awards granted include:

IEEE Fellow, 2009, for contributions to data mining and knowledge discovery
W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society, 2009, for significant contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining
Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society, 2004, for contributions in data mining and knowledge discovery, data warehousing, deductive and object-oriented databases
ACM Fellow, 2003, for contributions in knowledge discovery and data mining

Best Publications

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques

Jiawei Han;Micheline Kamber;Jian Pei

57242
Citations
Mining frequent patterns without candidate generation

Jiawei Han;Jian Pei;Yiwen Yin

10567
Citations
Data mining: an overview from a database perspective

Ming-Syan Chen;Jiawei Han;P.S. Yu

3959
Citations
Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation: A Frequent-Pattern Tree Approach

Jiawei Han;Jian Pei;Yiwen Yin;Runying Mao

3647
Citations
PrefixSpan,: mining sequential patterns efficiently by prefix-projected pattern growth

Jian Pei;Jiawei Han;B. Mortazavi-Asl;H. Pinto

3473
Citations
gSpan: graph-based substructure pattern mining

Xifeng Yan;Jiawei Han

3008
Citations
Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining

Raymond T. Ng;Jiawei Han

2820
Citations
A framework for clustering evolving data streams

Charu C. Aggarwal;Jiawei Han;Jianyong Wang;Philip S. Yu

2696
Citations
Graph Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Data Representation

Deng Cai;Xiaofei He;Jiawei Han;T S Huang

2696
Citations
PathSim: meta path-based top-K similarity search in heterogeneous information networks

Yizhou Sun;Jiawei Han;Xifeng Yan;Philip S. Yu

2108
Citations
Discovery of Spatial Association Rules in Geographic Information Databases.

Koperski K;Han J

2085
Citations
Trajectory clustering: a partition-and-group framework

Jae-Gil Lee;Jiawei Han;Kyu-Young Whang

1971
Citations
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (2nd edition)

Jiawei Han;Micheline Kamber

1956
Citations
Mining concept-drifting data streams using ensemble classifiers

Haixun Wang;Wei Fan;Philip S. Yu;Jiawei Han

1935
Citations
Mining sequential patterns by pattern-growth: the PrefixSpan approach

Jian Pei;Jiawei Han;B. Mortazavi-Asl;Jianyong Wang

1908
Citations
Frequent pattern mining: current status and future directions

Jiawei Han;Hong Cheng;Dong Xin;Xifeng Yan

1877
Citations
CMAR: accurate and efficient classification based on multiple class-association rules

Wenmin Li;Jiawei Han;Jian Pei

1861
Citations
Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases

Jiawei Han;Yongjian Fu

1754
Citations
CLARANS: a method for clustering objects for spatial data mining

R.T. Ng;Jiawei Han

1548
Citations
Maintenance of discovered association rules in large databases: an incremental updating technique

D.W. Cheung;Jiawei Han;V.T. Ng;C.Y. Wong

1463
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xifeng Yan University of California, Santa Barbara

Xiang Ren University of Southern California

Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago

Yizhou Sun University of California, Los Angeles

Jing Gao Purdue University West Lafayette

Jian Pei Duke University

Deng Cai Zhejiang University

Heng Ji University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Xiaofei He Zhejiang University

Charu C. Aggarwal IBM (United States)

External Links

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