Education
- Sept. 2005 -- now, Ph.D candidate, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Sept. 2005 -- Apr. 2009, M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Sept. 2005 -- Apr. 2009, M.S., minor in Statistics, School of Statistics University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Sept. 2001 -- Jun. 2005, B.S. in Computer Science, Chu Kechen Honors College, Zhejiang University, China
Patent Applications
- Systems and methods for semi-supervised relationship extraction, with Y. Qi, P. Kuksa and B. Bai, NEC Labs America, application number 20110270604, 2011
- Object recognition system with database pruning and querying, with P. Baheti, A. Swaminathan and S. Diaz. Corp R&D, Qualcomm, application number 20120011119, 2010
Awards & Honors
Competitions
- Third Prize, the Competition of Mathematical Modeling, Zhejiang, China, 2005.
- First Prize, the National Olympic Competition of Physics, (finalist, nationwide top 120), China, 2001.
- First Prize, the National Olympic Competition of Mathematics, China, 1998.
- First Prize, the National Olympic Competition of Chemistry, China, 1998.
Scholarships
- Departmental nominee, Grad School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, US, 2011.
- Roberto Patine Scholarship, Qualcomm CR&D, US, 2009.
- The Student Innovation Award, Zhejiang University, China, 2005.
- The Outstanding Student Award, Zhejiang University, China, 2001 -- 2005.
Others
- Travel Grants for US-based Female and Minority Students, ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine, 2011.
- Scholarly Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, University of Minnesota, 2011
- Travel Award, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2009, 2011
- Travel Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2008, 2011
- Travel Grant, Office for University Women, University of Minnesota, 2007
Professional Activities
Journal Reviewers
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
- Bioinformatics
- Chemoinformatics
- IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- IEEE The Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
- International Journal of Pattern Recognition
- Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
- Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
- Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A
- The Computer Journal
- Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
Conference Reviewers
- BIBE, BigMine, CIKM, ECML/PKDD, GIW, ICCABS, ICDM, IPDPS, ISBRA, KDD, KDIR, MLG, PAA, PAKDD, SDM
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
- Chemoinformatics, Machine Learning, Data Mining,
Karypis Lab,
Jan. 2007 - now
- L1 optimization for top-N recommendation
- Multi-task learning for collaborative filtering
- Set classification
- Structure-Selectivity-Relationship (SSR) model improvement
- Structure-Activity-Relationship (SAR) model improvement
- Compound binding conformation detection
- Compound activity prediction
- Computational Geometry, Jun. 2006 -- Dec. 2006
- Geometric algorithm for rapid prototyping, with Prof. Ravi Jarnadan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Mesh generation,
Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation, Zhejiang University, China
, Sept. 2004 -- Jun. 2005
- Mesh generation algorithms and graph partitioning algorithms
- Undergrad thesis
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- CSCI4041, Algorithms and Data Structures, undergrad level
- CSCI5421, Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures, grad level
- CSCI5481, Computational Genomics, grad level
- Assignment and exam grading, TA office hours and recitation sessions
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
- Mathematical Analysis
- Advanced mathematics course for honors freshmen students
- Graduate teaching assistant appointment assigned to sophomores (7 out of 10,000 undergrads)
- Assignment and exam grading, recitation sessions
Professional Experience
Internships
- Machine Learning Department, NEC Labs America, NJ
- Summer Research Assistant, Jun. 2010 -- Sept. 2010
- Text mining for Bio-relation extraction
- Summer Research Assistant, Jun. 2010 -- Sept. 2010
- Corp R&D, Qualcomm, CA
- Engineering Interim Intern, Jun. 2009 -- Sept. 2009, Jul. 2008 -- Sept. 2008
- Data mining algorithm design and implementation for Augmented Reality
- Parallel clustering algorithm implementation
- Engineering Interim Intern, Jun. 2009 -- Sept. 2009, Jul. 2008 -- Sept. 2008