A conversation with Professor Li-Zhu Zhou

The history of KDD research in China can be backtracked to the early of 1990s. At that time, Ph.D. students from a few universities and research institutions such as Tsinghua, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences etc., started to select KDD problems as their dissertation topics. During this time, the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) started to fund KDD projects in their regular programs. This could be viewed as the first important milestone.