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I am
an assistant professor in Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering at USC since August 2010. Before that, I was a
research staff member in the Data
Analytic Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center from Nov 2006. I got my
M.S. and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.
My research interest is machine learning and data mining with
applications to biology, climate science, and social media
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What’s new
We recently built a repository
of datasets and code to
analyze multivariate time series.
Recent publication (see here for details): KDD paper on temporal causal inference in presence of hidden variables SDM paper on theoretical analysis of Granger causaliy SIGMOD paper on social network inference from geospatial data
WSDM paper on Granger causality for Tweet
summarization.
I am offering the class CSCI-686 Advanced Data Analytics in Spring 2014.
I
am serving as the Program Co-chair for International Workshops on
Climate Informatics 2013.
I
am co-organzing the Second AAAI symposium on Discovery Informatics 2013.
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Award NSF CAREER Award (details)
Yahoo! Faculty Award 2011
James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Individual Award, 2011
ACM
Dissertation Award Honorable Mention 2007. Here is
detailed information on this award (and me
in the award banquet). Best
Paper Award in SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2007) Winning
team of Practical data mining competition: Team lead of winner of KDD Cup 2007 on Netflix Movie Rating Prediction Team member of winning team of KDD Cup 2009 on Fast Scoring on a Large Marketing Database, KDD Cup 2008 on Early Detection of Breast Cancer and INFORMS Data Mining Competition 2008 |
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| Media Coverage 
Machine
learning for automatically quantifying patent quality (for
technical details, see KDD 2011 paper for details) |
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Student Applications
If you are interested in applying for MS program at USC, please do not contact with me because I am not involved with the admission process and I will not respond to emails regarding MS admission.
If you are interested in applying for the PhD program at USC and working with me, pls submit your application in here and indicate my name in your application.
If
you are already a MS student at USC and intersted in working with me,
the best way is to take my class and perform well in the class.
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