Top graduate schools for (i) big data, (ii) data mining, (iii) data management

[hdev]

Hello world, 

 

This is my first post in gradcafe. I am a final year undergraduate student looking to attend a phd program in Fall 2015. My field of interest is big data analytics. I would like to know about the graduate schools doing cutting edge research in the following fields:

 

(i) big data

(ii) data mining

(iii) data management

 

Thank you.

[compiler_guy]

One good way is to ask professors at your undergraduate institute for their opinion.

 

Browsing over universities in this ranking is not a bad idea as well:

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

[hdev]

One good way is to ask professors at your undergraduate institute for their opinion.

 

Browsing over universities in this ranking is not a bad idea as well:

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

 

Thank you for your reply. I asked some of them. My supervisor likes Stanford and UIUC.  I have been following the work of Stanford university (Infolab) and UIUC. (Data Mining group). But apart from these two, I have not found any other very active research group (from top schools) working on management of data. May be I am missing something.

[Icydubloon]

University of Washington is another good one.
http://db.cs.washington.edu/

[compiler_guy]

A good way to find research groups in your area of interest is to read papers\journals in you area in see where the authors are from.

 

For example:

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/?SearchDomain=2&SubDomain=18&entitytype=2

[hdev]

Hi, 

 

Icydubloon

 

Yes. UW also seem to be doing fantastic works.

 

compiler_guy

 

It seems these fields are highly dominated by the Stanford communities. I can also see the other top graduate schools. However, are these people still active, i mean whether they still intake students

[Vikas]

Albeit they are not ranked high for CS in general, University of Minnesota (twin cities) and Michigan State University are easily amongst the best schools for data mining. Just go to any program committee of top data mining conferences (KDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM), you'll likely find a lot of faculty from these schools!   

[hdev]

Albeit they are not ranked high for CS in general, University of Minnesota (twin cities) and Michigan State University are easily amongst the best schools for data mining. Just go to any program committee of top data mining conferences (KDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM), you'll likely find a lot of faculty from these schools!   

 

Thank you for your reply. Yes, they are doing really good. I will keep these schools in mind while applying.

 

I have a question on a slightly different topic, if you don't mind. I believe you are from data mining background and social networks are within your research interest. Can you tell me whether COSN (http://cosn.acm.org/2014/index.html) is a good conference? Its a new conference introduced by ACM with a strong PC committee. Last year, the acceptance rate was around 16%. I have recently finished a manuscript that I would like to try in either COSN or WISE (http://delab.csd.auth.gr/wise2014/), which is an established rank A conference. Can you tell me which one will be a better venue in terms of exposure/visibility? My manuscript is on social network mining which is within the scope of both conferences.