An Interview with Dr. Michael Zeller, Winner of ACM SIGKDD 2020 Service Award

Michael Zeller, Ph.D. is the recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Service Award, which is the highest service award in the field of knowledge discovery and data mining. Conferred annually on one individual or group in recognition of outstanding professional services and contributions to the field of knowledge discovery and data mining, Dr. Zeller was honored for his years of service and many accomplishments as the secretary and treasurer for ACM SIGKDD, the organizing body of the annual KDD conference. Zeller is also head of AI strategy and solutions at Temasek, a global investment company seeking to make a difference always with tomorrow in mind. He sat down with SIGKDD Explorations to discuss how he first got involved in the KDD conference in 1999, what he learned from the first-ever virtual conference, his work at Temasek, and what excites him about the future of machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence.