Awards

1.      Best Paper Award, ISSTA 2007.

2.      CWRU EECS Department Research Award, 2005.

3.      Endowed Chair Professorship, 2004-2007.


Funding

1.      (PI) NSF CNS 0551603: CRI: Infrastructure for Managing and Analyzing Large Scale Biological Data via Utility Computing, ($313,053), 9/15/2006-8/31/2009.

2.      (co-PI) NSF CCF 0820217: Collaborative Research: Enhancing the Reliability of Bioinformatics Software by Correlating User Feedback and Execution Data, ($687,147), 6/15/2008-5/31/2011.

3.      (co-PI) Presidential Research Initiative: Mapping Genetic Networks Underlying Behavioral Regulation at a Genomic Scale Using a Combined Approach of C.elegans Genetics and Data Mining ($75,000), 7/1/2008 – 6/30/2010.


Projects

1.      Approximate Graph Mining and Indexing

2.      Sequential Pattern Mining


Software

·         Tree-pi (graph indexing structure)


Professional Services

·         Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Bioinformatics and Data Mining, 2006-present.

·         Guest Editors: IEEE TKDE, 2005 and IEEE TKKD, 2008.

·         PC Chairs: VDBM 2006, 2007, BioKDD 2006, and DUNE 2007.

·         Workshop Chair: BIBM 2008.

·         NSF Panelists 2007, 2009.

·         PC Members (partial list): KDD (2007-2009), ICDM (2002, 2004-2008), SDM (2007-2009), ICDE (2004), BIBM (2006, 2007), BIBE (2005, 2008).


Supervised Students

Graduated Students

·         Gurkan Bebek (Ph.D graduated in Jan. 2007 and working at Case Medical School as a Research Fellow)

·         Meng Hu (MS graduated in June 2007 and working at Garmin)

·         Aaron Cederquist (MS graduated in Nov. 2008 and working at National Instruments)      

Current Students

·         Don Hardy (MS)

·         Wei Jin (Ph.D.)

·         Shirong Li (Ph.D.)

·         Robert Miller (MS)

·         Wei Su (Ph.D.)

·         Shijie Zhang (Ph.D.)


Publications