LAMDA is affiliated with the National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology and the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University, China. It locates at Mengminwei Building II in the main campus of Nanjing University, mainly in room 401. The Founding Director of LAMDA is Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou. "LAMDA" means "Learning And Mining from DatA". The main research interests of LAMDA include machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, information retrieval, evolutionary computation, neural computation, and some other related areas. Currently our research mainly involves: ensemble learning, semi-supervised and active learning, multi-instance and multi-label learning, cost-sensitive and class-imbalance learning, metric learning, dimensionality reduction and feature selection, structure learning and clustering, theoretical foundations of evolutionary computation, improving comprehensibility, content-based image retrieval, web search and mining, face recognition, computer-aided medical diagnosis, bioinformatics, etc.