Arthur Zimek

Arthur Zimek is a professor in data mining, data science and machine learning at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.

Arthur Zimek
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Scientific career
Fields	outlier detection, correlation clustering
Institutions	University of Southern Denmark, University of Alberta, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Doctoral advisor	Hans-Peter Kriegel

He graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Munich, Germany, where he worked with Prof. Hans-Peter Kriegel.^[1] His dissertation on "Correlation Clustering" was awarded the "SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award 2009 Runner-up"^[2] by the Association for Computing Machinery.

He is well known^[3] for his work on outlier detection,^[4][5] density-based clustering,^[6] correlation clustering,^[7][8] and the curse of dimensionality.^[9][10]

He is one of the founders and core developers of the open-source ELKI data mining framework.^[11][12]