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Joerg Sander is a professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta, where he holds the Chair in Computing Science. He completed his education at the University of Munich, earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1998, as well as a Diploma in Computer Science and an M.A. in Philosophy Science. His research centers on knowledge discovery in databases, focusing particularly on clustering, spatial data mining, and data management. Sander has made significant contributions to the fields of density-based clustering and unsupervised outlier detection, being a primary author of influential algorithms such as DBSCAN, OPTICS, and HDBSCAN. His work has been recognized through numerous highly cited papers and the SIGKDD test-of-time award for the DBSCAN paper. His research is extensively covered in textbooks on data mining and has a wide array of practical applications.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management