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EDUCACTION:

• 08/2002 - present: the Department of Computer Science, at University of Illinois, Chicago, GPA: 3.71/4.0. Advisor: Bing Liu
• 01/2000 - 06/2001: the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at Wright State University, M.S. GPA: 3.73/4.0
• 08/1994 - 06/1997: the Department of Chemistry, at Jilin University, China. Chemistry Major, M.S.
• 08/1990 - 06/1994: the Department of Chemistry, at Jilin University, China. Polymer Science and Engineering Major, B.S.

• Programming languages: C/C++, Java, Visual Basic and Smalltalk.
• Database: Practical SQL programming, MS Access and SQL Server.
• Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Sun OS, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP.
• Web Development: HTML, JavaScript, ASP.

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

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

EXPERIENCE:

• Summer Intern, Informatica Corporation, Redwood City, CA, summer 2003.
• Summer Intern, Gasper Corporation, Dayton, OH, summer 2002.

• Associate Professor, Bing Liu, the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago.
• QA Manager, Geetha Gopalakrishnan, Informatica Corporation, Redwood City, CA