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Cinda Heeren is an American computer scientist who specializes in data mining. Heeren is lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her research in data mining, Heeren is renowned for her work in discrete mathematics, especially with unique applications of disjoint sets.

Education
Cinda Heeren earned her M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1990. Heeren earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004. Heeren's Ph.D. thesis was entitled Optimization Problems in Data Mining.

Early Work
Prior to her work at University of Illinois, Cinda Heeren held positions as Lecturer in the Departments of Computer Science, Statistics, and Mathematics at the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.

Selected Publications

 * 2008. Identifying Important and Difficult Concepts in Introductory Computing Courses Using a Delphi Process


 * 2006. Concept Inventories in Computer Science for the Topic Discrete Mathematics


 * 2003. Optimized Disjunctive Association Rules via Sampling


 * 2003. Optimal Indexing Using Near-Minimal Space