Expertise
  • I am working on Data Mining, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics and their applications in
  • e-Commerce and Recommender Systems, where I develop personalized and scalable methods and software tools to discover knowledge regarding users' personal preferences, intentions and behavior patterns, etc, from their purchases activities, social networks, click traces, online reviews, etc, and correspondingly produce personalized recommendations;
  • Drug discovery and Bioinformatics, where I develop effective data mining and machine learning methodologies to facilitate rapid and targeted exploration over chemical and biological spaces, and computational methods for various Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics problems; and
  • Complex systems, where I develop Big Data Analytics methods to help understand system behaviors, detect anomalies from large and heterogeneous systems, and identify security related issues, etc.
Communities
Management Information Systems, Information Science/Systems, Computer Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities., Computer Science and Engineering Department, 2012
MS, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Computer Science, 2009
MS, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2009
BS, Zhejiang University, China, Computer Science, 2005