Martin Ester (born November 5, 1958) is a Canadian-German

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of Computing Science at

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. His research focuses on researcher data mining and machine learning.

Career

After earning his MS.c., Ester worked for

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before earning a position at the

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as an Assistant Professor in 1993. Three years later, in 1996, Ester,

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, Jörg Sander and Xiaowei Xu proposed a

data clustering Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar (in some sense) to each other than to those in other groups (clusters). It is a main task of ...

algorithm called " Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise" (DBSCAN). Their proposal won the 2014 KDD Test of Time Award for "outstanding papers from past KDD Conferences beyond the last decade that have had an important impact on the data mining research community." A few years later, Ester moved to Vancouver and accepted a position at Simon Fraser University. In 2009, Ester was selected to become an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Between 2010 and 2015, Ester served as the SFU School of Computing Science director, before being succeeded by Greg Mori. In 2016,

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listed Ester as the world's most influential scholar in data mining. At the time, Arnetminer recorded that Ester authored 169 papers, which gained more than 21,000 citations, and hitting 50 on the h-index. Besides working as a

at SFU, Ester is also heading research at British Columbia Children's Hospital regarding genetic influence in drug reception and reactions in patients. His research team received a $9.9 million grant from Genome Canada for their research through Genome Canada's 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition: Genomics and Precision Health. As a result of his research, Ester was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Canada judges to have "made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public li ...

in 2019.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ester, Martin Living people 1958 births Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Canadian computer scientists Computer scientists Simon Fraser University faculty Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty Technical University of Dortmund alumni ETH Zurich alumni