He has research interests in data analytics, namely novel data mining algorithms, web mining, text mining, image mining, social network analysis, data visualization and information retrieval with applications in Health Informatics, e-Learning and e-Business.
He is also on the steering committee of many data mining conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Advanced Data Mining and Applications. He was the Associate Editor then Editor-inChief of the ACM SIGKDD Explorations from 2003 to 2010. He was also Associate Editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems, An International Journal, by Springer, and of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery by Springer, as well as the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions He was the General co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2011 and the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics DSAA 2016. Osmar Zaiane received the ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2009 and the 2010 ACM SIGKDD Service Award.