I am a PhD student (09/2007-) at Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, working with Prof. Vipin Kumar and Dr. Michael Steinbach on the following topics, with advise also from Prof. Rui Kuang, Prof. Chad Myers.

• Computational systems biology, functional genomics, data mining

Specifically, my research work is motivated to help in the understanding of human diseases (from genome-wide association data to molecular traits and disease phenotypes) through the analysis of one or multiple types of data: 

• gene expression, SNP, eQTL, methylation, CNV, sequences, pathways, interaction networks, metabolomic, fMRI, clinical data

I worked on pattern recognition with Prof. Sargur Srihari @ State University of New York at Buffalo (M.S. Computer Science 2007). I did my undergraduate @ Fudan University, Shanghai, China (B.S. Computer Science 2005).

Selected publications:

• High-order SNP Combinations Associated with Complex Diseases: Efficient Discovery, Statistical Power and Functional Interactions
  Gang Fang, Majda Haznadar, Wen Wang, Haoyu Yu, Michael Steinbach, Tim Church, William Oetting, Brian Van Ness and Vipin Kumar.
  PLoS ONE, to appear, 2012
  (software)
   
• Mining Low-support Discriminative Patterns from Dense and High-dimensional Data
  Gang Fang, Gaurav Pandey, Wen Wang, Manish Gupta, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar.
  IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol 24(2), p 279-294, 2012
  (software)
   
• Characterizing Discriminative Patterns
  Gang Fang, Wen Wang, Benjamin Oatley, Brian Van Ness, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar.
  Manuscript, arXiv: 1102.4104
   
• Construction and Functional Analysis of Human Genetic Interaction Networks with Genome-wide Association Data
  Gang Fang, Wen Wang, Vanja Paunic, Benjamin Oately, Majda Haznadar, Michael Steinbach, Brian Van Ness, Chad L. Myers and Vipin Kumar.
  Manuscript, arXiv: 1101.3343
   
• Integration of Differential Gene-combination Search and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis: A General Approach
  Gang Fang, Michael Steinbach, Chad L. Myers and Vipin Kumar.
  Manuscript, arXiv: 1101.3474
   
• Subspace Differential Coexpression Analysis: Problem Definition and a General Approach
  Gang Fang, Rui Kuang, Gaurav Pandey, Michael Steinbach, Chad L. Myers and Vipin Kumar.
  Proceedings of the 15th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 15:145-156, 2010.
  (ppt, software, PubMed) Highlighted by RECOMB System Biology for oral presentation (video)  
   
• Interpretable Predictive Models for Knowledge Discovery from Home Care Electronic Health Records
  Bonnie Westra, Sanjoy Dey, Gang Fang, Michael Steinbach, Kay Savik, Cristina Oancea and Vipin Kumar.
  Journal of Healthcare Engineering, vol 2(1), p 55-74, 2011. 
   
• Using Constraints to Generate and Explore Higher Order Discriminative Patterns
  Michael Steinbach, Haoyu Yu, Gang Fang and Vipin Kumar.
  Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), in press, 2011. 
   
• Quantitative Evaluation of Approximate Frequent Pattern Mining Algorithms 
  Rohit Gupta, Gang Fang, Blayne Field, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar.
  Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2008.
  (software)      
   
• Association Analysis Techniques for Bioinformatics Problems
  Gowtham Atluri, Rohit Gupta, Gang Fang, Gaurav Pandey, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar
  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB), pp 1-13, 2009. 
   
• Association Analysis Techniques for Analyzing Complex Biological Data Sets
  Gaurav Pandey, Gowtham Atluri, Gang Fang, Rohit Gupta, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2009.
   
• Genomic Variation in Myeloma: Design, content and initial application of the Bank On A Cure SNP Panel to detect associations with progression free survival
  Brian Van Ness, Christine Ramos, Majda Haznadar, Antje Hoering, Jeff Haessler, John Crowley, Susanna  Jacobus, Martin Oken, Vincent Rajkumar, Philip Greipp, Bart Barlogie, Brian Durie, Michael Katz, Gowtham Atluri, Gang Fang, Rohit Gupta, Michael  Steinbach, Vipin  Kumar, Richard  Mushlin, David  Johnson, Gareth Morgan,
  BMC Medicine, Volume 6, pp 26, 2008.
   
• Discriminability of the Fingerprints of Twins
  S. N. Srihari, H. Srinivasan, and G. Fang
  Journal of Forensic Identification, 58(1), 2008, pp. 109-127.
   
• Use of Ridge Points in Partial Fingerprint Matching
  G. Fang, S. N. Srihari, H. Srinivasan and P. Phatak
  Proc. of SPIE Biometric Technology for Human Identification IV, Vol 6539, pp. 65390D-1 to 65390D-9, 2007.
   
• Use of Ridge Types in Generative Models of Fingerprint Individuality
  G. Fang, H. Srinivasan and S. N. Srihari
  Proc. Int. Workshop of Computational Forensics, 2007