Xin Li

Ph.D.

• I defended my dissertation at Nov. 2nd, 2006.
• Got questions? Yahoo launched Yahoo! Answers.(12/2005)
• Yahoo unveiled Yahoo! Instant Search. It looks that people really need instant gratification (09/2005).
• Google launched Google Blog Search (09/2005).

• University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, the Department of Computer Science, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 08/2002 - 11/2006.
• Wright State University, OH, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, M.S. in Computer Science.
• Jilin University, China, the Department of Chemistry , B.E. in Polymer Science and M.S. in Chemistry.

My research interest is focused on knowledge discovery from data. Currently I am working on text mining projects in Professor Bing Liu's lab, which is affiliated with the National Center for Data Mining.

Recent projects:

• Designed and implemented a system to extract the main content block from Web news and interpret the time-related information in news articles.
• Designed and implemented a hierarchical clustering algorithm to discover community of named entities from free text document.
• Proposed and implemented a Timed PageRank algorithm to enhance information retrieval result by integrating the time dimension into the original PageRank algorithm.

Recent Publications:

• Xin Li, Bing Liu, and Philip S. Yu. Discovering Overlapping Communities of Named Entities, PKDD-2006. pdf
• Xin Li, Bing Liu, and Philip S. Yu. Mining Community Structure of Named Entities from Web Pages and Blogs, AAAI-CAAW 2006. pdf
• Xin Li and Bing Liu. Mining Community Structure of Named Entities from Free Text, CIKM-2005 poster paper. pdf
• Philip S. Yu, Xin Li, and Bing Liu. Adding the Temporal Dimension to Search - A Case Study in Publication Search, Web Intelligence 2005. pdf
• Philip S. Yu, Xin Li, and Bing Liu. On the Temporal Dimension of Search, WWW-2004 poster paper. pdf

• Research Assistant, the Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, IL 08/2003-present, Advisor: Professor Bing Liu.
• Summer Intern, Informatica Corp, Redwood city, CA, Supervisor: Geetha Gopalakrishnan.
• Summer Intern, Gasper Corp, Dayton, OH, Supervisor: Xiaohua Deng.

My resume is available in PDF and HTML versions.

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