LAMDA is affiliated with the National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology and the Department of Computer Science & Technology , Nanjing University, China. The Director of LAMDA is Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou. It locates at the Mengminwei Building II of main campus of Nanjing University , mainly in room 401.

"LAMDA" means "Learning And Mining from DatA". The main research interests of LAMDA include machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, pattern recognition, neural computation, evolutionary computation, and some other related areas. Currently our research mainly involves: ensemble learning, semi-supervised learning, multi-instance and multi-label learning, cost-sensitive and class-imbalance learning, dimensionality reduction and feature selection, theoretical foundations of evolutionary computation, improving comprehensibility of learning sytems, content-based image retrieval, web search and mining, face recognition, computer-aided medical diagnosis, etc.