• Awards

§         2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award

§         Best Paper Award at the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2004 IEEE CIBCB)

§         2006 IEEE Granular Computing Outstanding Service Award

§         2001 IEEE Data Mining Outstanding Service Award

  • Publications (more than 130 peer-reviewed papers)

§         33 Journal Papers, 18 Book Chapters, 87 Conference Papers  (Citations: Scholar.google.com, DBLP, Google(CiteSeer))

§         Co-editors of 9 books/conference proceedings

  • Funded Research Projects

§         PI: Career: A unified architecture for data mining large biomedical literature databases (NSF, $415K, 03/2005-02/2010)

§         PI: High performance rough sets data analysis in data mining (NSF, $102K, 07/2005-07/2008)

§         Co-PI: The Drexel University GAANN Fellowship Program: Educating Renaissance Engineers (US Dept. of Education, around $700K ($504K from DoE + Drexel match), 9/1/2006-7/31/2009)

§         Co-PI: Penn State Cancer Education Network Evaluation (PA Dept. of Health, $500K, 04/01/2006-07/31/2008)

§         Co-PI: Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (PA Dept. of Health, $1.5M, 09/2004-08/2007)

§         Co-PI: Origin and evolution of genomic instability in breast cancer (PA Dept. of Health, $100K, 05/2004-04/2005)

§         Co-PI: Systems biology approach to understand protein-protein interactions (PA Dept. of Health, $50K, 05/2004-04/2005)

  • Recent Books

 

 

 

 

  • Editorial Service

§         Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (inaugural issue)

§         Associate Editor of  the Knowledge and Information System: An International Journal

§         Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Data Warehousing  and Data Mining

§         Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Service Operations and Informatics

§         Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics

  • Recent Conference Services (2006-2007)

§         PC Co-chair of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Data Mining and Information Retrieval (DMIR-07)

§         PC Co-Chair of the 2007 PAKDD Data Mining in Bioinformatics Workshop

§         PC Co-Chair of the 2007 IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Applications for Digital Ecosystems (BADE 2007)

§         PC Co-Chair of the 2nd Workshop on High Performance Computing in Medicine and Biology (HiPCoMB-2006)

§         PC Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE ICDM International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (DMB2006)

§         Local Arrangements Chair of the SIGKDD 2006 (KDD 06)

  • Research Interests

§         Data Mining Algorithm Design, Text Mining, Web Mining, Semantic Web Mining

§         Bioinformatics, HealthCare/Medical Informatics

§         Ontology Learning and Construction, Information Retrieval and Extraction

§         Rough Sets in Data Mining, Data Warehouse/OLAP

  • My Students, Visiting Professors

§         Illhoi Yoo (graduated in June 2006, currently tenure-track assistant professor in Univ. of Missouri-Columbia)

§         Xiaodan Zhang (3rd year Ph.D. student, Text and Web Data Mining, Digital Library, Bioterrorism)

§         Daniel Wu (4th year Ph.D. student, Data Mining and Biomolecular Network Analysis)

§         Xuheng Xu (3rd   year Ph.D. student, Semantic-based Query Optimization and Intelligent Searching)

§         Davis Zhou (4th year Ph.D. student, Semantic-based Information Extraction and Retrieval)

§         Deima Elnatour (3rd year Ph.D. student, Semantic-based Text Mining)

§         Guisu Li (1st  year Ph.D. student, Healthcare Informatics)

§         Zhong Huang (1st year Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology)

§         Karen L. Joy (1st year Ph.D. student, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining)

§         Prof. Wu Chen (Visiting Professor,  Rough Sets Theory and Application, March, 2006-Feb., 2007)

§         Dr. JiangTao Ren (Visiting Professor, Data mining and Bioinformatics, June, 2006-Nov., 2006)

 

 

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