PALM is affiliated with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China. It's located at Computer Science Building in Jiulonghu Campus of Southeast University.

"PALM" means "PAttern Learning and Mining". The members in PALM, including full-time teachers, postdoctoral fellows, postgraduates, visiting scholars/students etc, mainly do the research covering data mining and knowledge discovery, machine learning, pattern recognition and some fundamental, frontier, innovative study in the related fields.