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I have been 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 Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University in Dec 2006. |
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What’s new I am re-offering the class on CSCI-599 Advanced Data Analytics in Fall 2012.
We have two papers accepted in ICML 2012 and one in KDD 2012. Please check here for details.
I am serving as the Publicity Chair of SIAM Data Mining 2013.
I am serving as the Local Chair of SIAM Data Mining 2012. If you're a student and interested in presenting the work at SDM, please check out the great opportunity of Doctor Forum with Student Travel Award (Here's the CFP and application form). I am serving as the Poster Chair of SIGKDD 2012.
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Student Applications
I am looking for highly-motivated students to work with me on the exciting area of machine learning and data mining. For USC students, the best way to learn about my research work is to
take my class For non-USC students, please submit your application in here and choose me as your preferred advisor |
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Award My thesis titled
“conditional graphical models for protein structure prediction” won the ACM
Dissertation Award Honorable Mention 2008. 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: I am 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 |
