Dr. Charu Chandra Aggarwal is a Distinguished Research Staff Member (DRSM) at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Dr. Charu C.Aggarwal received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1993 and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996.
Dr. Aggarwal is a distinguished figure in the field of machine learning and data mining, and is renowned for his pioneering contributions to high-dimensional data analysis, outlier ensembles, and data stream research. His groundbreaking work laid the foundation for new research areas within these domains, making him a trailblazer in the field long before the era of big data became widespread. Dr. Aggarwal's impact extends beyond research recognition. He has chaired numerous top-tier conferences and served as the editor-in-chief of prominent journals and magazines, including ACM SIGKDD Explorations and the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. He has authored nine books, including graduate textbooks in the areas of machine learning, linear algebra, probability/statistics, and artificial intelligence. Due to the commercial value of his patents, he has thrice been designated a Master Inventor at IBM.
