I am no longer at UIC.
Kaidi Zhao (kaidizhao+@+gmail.com, without the plus sign)
Ph.D. / Research Assistant Computer Science Dept, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Master of Science (2000-2002), School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
Bachelor of Science (1995-1999), Computer Science Dept, Peking University.
I am no longer at UIC.
Short Summary
8+ years research experience in Data Mining (including visual data mining, web, text, etc.).
2 years Oracle experience in Oracle China H.Q., Technical Support Analyst.
Profound skills in Java, VC++, Oracle DB/WebServer, UNIX, MS Windows/Office, etc.
Research Interests
Data Mining: Visual data mining, Industrial data data mining, Web mining, Text mining, etc.
Ph.D. supervisor: Prof.
Bing Liu.
Currently in research cooperation with MATC, Motorola Advanced Technology Center, IL. USA.
Selected Publications
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu, Thomas M. Tirpak, Weimin Xiao. "A Visual Data Mining Framework for Convenient Identification of Useful Knowledge". The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2005). 27 - 30 November 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [.pdf file]
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu, Thomas M. Tirpak, Weimin Xiao. "Opportunity Map: A Visualization Framework for Fast Identification of Actionable Knowledge". ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2005). 31st October - 5th November, 2005. Bremen, Germany. [.pdf file]
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu, Thomas M. Tirpak, Andreas Schaller. "V-Miner: Using Enhanced Parallel Coordinates to Mine Product Design and Test Data". In ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining, SIGKDD-2004. Industrial Track. Aug 22. Seattle, Washington, USA. [.pdf file]
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu, Thomas M. Tirpak, Andreas Schaller. "Detecting Patterns of Change Using Enhanced Parallel Coordinates Visualization". IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM-2003. November 19 - 22, 2003. Melbourne, Florida, USA. [.pdf file]
Bing Liu, Kaidi Zhao, and Lan Yi. "Visualizing Web site comparisons". In Proceedings of the eleventh international World Wide Web conference (WWW-2002). 7-11 May 2002. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. [.pdf file]
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu. "Visual Analysis of The Behavior of Discovered Rules". In ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining, SIGKDD-2001, Workshop on Visual Data Mining. Aug 20, 2001. San Francisco, CA, USA. [.pdf file]
Other Research Projects
Product Finder project (sub-project).
Semantic Web hierarchy crawling.
Automatic topics/opinions extraction project with Motorola.
Other Documents or Publications
Kaidi Zhao, etc. Data mining with Motorola PCS, on certain system log data. 2004, 2005.
Kaidi Zhao, etc. "Knowledge Synthesis System". Release 2004 and 2005. Project release with Motorola Labs. 2004, 2005.
Kaidi Zhao, etc. "V-Miner, Using Enhanced Parallel Coordinates to Mine Product Design and Test Data". Research project deliverables document for Motorola. Feb. 2004.
Kaidi Zhao, etc. "Visualization Powered by Approximate Data Mining". Project for Motorola Advanced Technology Center. 2003.
Kaidi Zhao. Technical Survey, for a course. "Data Visualization". 2000. [.pdf file]
Research Experience
8+ years of research experience:
Industrial Experience
Duties including:
Profound practical skills in: