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
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.)