Wei Zhou

Ingenuity Systems, Inc.
1700 Seaport Blvd. Third Floor
Redwood City, CA 94063


Education

PhD, Computer Science specialized in Biomedical Informatics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008
MS, Mathematical Statistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007
BS/MS, Computer Science, Nanjing University, 2002

Recent Publications

  1. Neil R. Smalheiser, Wei Zhou, Vetle I. Torvik (2011) Distribution of "Characteristic" Terms in MEDLINE Literatures. Information . 2011 [pdf].

  2. Neil R. Smalheiser, Vetle I. Torvik, Wei Zhou (2009) Arrowsmith two-node search interface: A tutorial on finding meaningful links between two disparate sets of articles in MEDLINE. Comput Meth Program Biomed. 2009 [pdf].

  3. Wei Zhou, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng (2008) A System for Finding Biological Entities that Satisfy Certain Conditions from Texts. Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), Napa Valley, California. October 26-30, 2008. [pdf] [ppt] (full paper, 17% acceptance).

  4. Neil R. Smalheiser, Wei Zhou, Torvik. (2008) Anne O'Tate: A tool to support user-driven summarization, drill-down and browsing of PubMed search results. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration. 2008; 3:(2) [pdf].

  5. Wei Zhou, Clement Yu (2007) TREC Genomics Track at UIC The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC'07), Baltimore, WA.[pdf][ppt]

  6. Wei Zhou, Clement Yu, Neil R. Smalheiser, Vetle I. Torvik, Hong Jie (2007) Knowledge-intensive Conceptual Retrieval and Passage Extraction of Biomedical Literature. Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'07), Amsterdam, Netherlands.[pdf][ppt] (full paper, 18% acceptance)

  7. Wei Zhou, Clement Yu, Vetle Torvik, Neil R. Smalheiser. (2006) A concept-based framework for passage retrieval in Genomics. The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC'06), Baltimore, WA.[pdf][ppt] We are the winner of the Genomics track of this international competition in text retrieval.

  8. Wei Zhou, VetleTorvik, Neil R. Smalheiser. (2006) ADAM: Another Database of Abbreviations in MEDLINE. Bioinformatics. 2006; 22(22): 2813-2818. [pdf] Bioinformatics is the leading journal in the field of bioinformatics (6.019: ISI impact factor of 2005). The database and software are being sold to Merck.

  9. Wei Zhou, Neil R. Smalheiser, Clement Yu. (2006) A tutorial on information retrieval: basic terms and concepts. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006, 1:2 (13 March 2006). [pdf].

  10. Wei Zhou, Clement Yu. (2005) Experiment report of TREC 2005 Genomics track ad hoc retrieval task. (2005) The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC'05), Baltimore, WA.[pdf]

 

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Last Update: Tues., Oct. 6, 2009