By Alina Gerall, Program Associate, CCC

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Blue Sky Ideas Track, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)! ICDM 2025 was held in Washington, D.C. on November 12-15, 2025. Now in its 24th year, ICDM is a premier international conference for advancing data mining research, and covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software, systems, and applications.

ICDM 2025 Blue Sky Winners

First Place

Truth Without Comprehension: A BlueSky Agenda for Steering the Fourth Mathematical Crisis

Runlong Yu, University of Pittsburgh

Xiaowei Jia, University of Pittsburgh

Second Place

Navigating Between Explainability and Extractability in Machine Learning as a Service

Ojas Nimase, University of Southern California

Yue Zhao, University of Southern California

Yushun Dong, Florida State University

Third Place

Toward Interpretable and Reliable Time Series Reasoning: A BlueSky Vision

Kanghui Ning, University of Connecticut

Zijie Pan, University of Connecticut

Yushan Jiang, University of Connecticut

Anderson Schneider, Morgan Stanley

Yuriy Nevmyvaka, Morgan Stanley

Dongjin Song, University of Connecticut

Please join us in congratulating the IDCM 2025 winners! 

CCC sponsors many Blue Sky tracks at various conferences in computing every year. If you are interested in requesting sponsorship of a Blue Sky track at your conference, please email blueskyideas@cra.org. Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee members for the track. For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a Blue Sky Ideas track — visit our website.

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