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I am a professor at the University of Michigan, where I serve as the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at the School of Information. Before that I served as the founding director of the Master of Applied Data Science program, one of the first online degree programs at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Michigan, I received my PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and my Bachelor's degree from Peking University.
Research
My research spans multiple subareas of AI, including data mining, information retrieval, machine learning, and natural language processing. I develop novel models and techniques for analyzing large-scale text, networks, and behavioral data. These techniques are applied to solving problems in Web search, social networks, scientific discovery, healthcare, and other domains with the aim to generate a positive impact on everyone’s daily life.
Publications
Honors and Awards
- Faculty Recognition Award , University of Michigan, 2020.
- Best Full Paper Award, WWW 2019.
- Michael D. Cohen Outstanding Service Award, University of Michigan School of Informaiton, 2018.
- Recognition of Service Award (for Co-Chairing SIGIR 2018), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018.
- ACM Distinguished Member, 2017.
- Best Paper Award, WSDM 2016.
- Best Paper Nomination, WWW 2016.
- Best Paper Award, ICML 2014.
- Distinguished Paper Award, AMIA 2014.
- Best Paper Selection, IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2012.
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2011. Project Site
- Certificate of Recognition, 2010 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award
- 2007-2008 Yahoo! PhD Student Fellowship
- Best Student Paper Award, Runner-Up, KDD 2007
- C. L. and Jane Liu Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
- Best Student Paper Award, Runner-Up, KDD 2006
Selected Services
- Action Editor: Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
- Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
- Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on the Big Data (TBD)
- Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2015-2019
- General Co-Chair: SIGIR 2018
Teaching
- SI601 Data Manipulation
- SI650/EECS549 Information Retrieval
- SI699 Big Data Analytics
- SI301 Models of Social Information Processing
- SI544 Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
- SI608 Networks: Theory and Application
- SI671/721 Data Mining: Methods and Applications
- SIADS532 Data Mining I
- SIADS632 Data Mining II
- SIADS685 Search and Recommender Systems
- SIADS696 Milestone II
- SIADS699 Capstone
Last Updated: Summer 2024
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