Education
Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL,USA
September 2001 – June 2005
Ph. D. in Computer Engineering
December 2005
Dissertation: High Performance Data Mining Techniques for Large Databases
Advisor: Prof. Alok Choudhary
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
September 1999 – August 2001
M.S. in Computer Engineering
December 2001
Project: Using WordNet to Disambiguate Word Senses
Advisor: Prof. Peter Scheuermann
Peking University, Beijing, China
September 1995 – July 1999
B.S. (major) in Computer Science, B.A. (minor) in Economics
July 1999
Work Experience
Information Science and Engineering School, Graduate University of Chinese
Academy of Science
Associate Professor June 2007- present
Assistant Professor January 2006 - May 2007
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA
Visiting Scientist July 2009 - September 2009
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Research Associate
July 2005 - November 2005
Presentations
[1]“Source Code Defect Detection”, 2nd ISCAS/USC/UMASS Workshop, June 2009, Beijing, China.
[2]“Parallel Computing on CUDA-enabled GPUs”, invited, China Meteorological Administration, May 2009, Beijing, China.
[3]“High Performance Data Mining on CUDA-enabled GPU”, invited, Symposium on New Trend of High Performance Computing -- GPU, May 2009, Beijing, China.
[4]“High Performance Data Mining and Applications”, invited, National Virtual Observatory Symposium, November 2008, Taiyuan, China.
[5] “High Performance Data Mining in Scientific Applications”, tutorial, National Scientific Database and Information Technique Symposium, October 2008, Guilin, China.
[6]“Data Mining in Auditing Data”, invited, National Audit Office of the People’s Republic of China, September 2007, Beijing, China.
Publications
• BOOK CHAPTER
[1] Jianwei Li, Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary,
“Parallel Data Mining Algorithms for
Association Rules and Clustering”, Handbook of Parallel
Computing: Models, Algorithms and Applications. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and John
Reif, ed., CRC Press, 2007.
• CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP
PAPERS
[1] Liheng Jian, Ying Liu, Cheng Wang, Peng Zhang, “CUApriori: A Parallel
Implementation of Association Rules Mining on CUDA-enabled GPU”, submitted.
[2] Shenshen Liang, Ying Liu, Ying Liu and Liheng Jian, “A CUDA-based Parallel Implementation of K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm”, International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), October 2009, Zhangjiajie, China.
[3] Xiuxiang Zhao, Ying Liu, Yong Shi, “Predicting Software Defects using Multiple Criteria Linear Programming”, 2nd International Workshop on Computer Science and Engineering (WCSE), October 2009, Qingdao, China.
[4] Shenshen Liang, Cheng Wang，Ying Liu and Liheng Jian, “CUKNN: A Parallel Implementation of K-Nearest Neighbor on CUDA-enabled GPU”, IEEE Youth Conference on Information, Computing and Telecommunications, September 2009, Beijing, China.
[5] Guangli Nie, Lingling Zhang, Ying Liu, Xiuyu Zheng, Yong Shi, "Decision analysis of data mining project based on Bayesian risk", Journal of Expert Systems with Applications 36 (2009), pp. 4589–4594.
[6] Cheng Wang, Ying Liu, Liheng Jian, Peng Zhang, "An Efficient Approach for Mining Web Content Sensitivity", Journal of International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2, 2009.
[7] Dengyuan Wu, Ying Liu, Ge Gao, Zhendong Mao, Weishan Ma and Tao He, "An Adaptive Ensemble Classifier for Concept Drifting Stream", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, March 2009, USA.
[8] Dengyuan Wu, Ying Liu, Ge Gao, Zhendong Mao, Weishan Ma and Tao He, "C3M: A
Classification Model for Multivariate Motion Time Series", CISE2009, Los
Angeles, USA.
[9] Cheng Wang, Ying Liu, Liheng Jian, Peng Zhang, “A Utility-based Web Content Sensitivity Mining Approach”, Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence in conjunction with IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
[10] Lin Zhou, Ying Liu, Jing Wang, Yong Shi, “Utility-based Web Path Traversal Pattern Mining”, Workshop on High Performance Data Mining in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, October 2007, Omaha, USA.
[11] Ying Liu, Peter Scheuermann, Xingsen Li, Xingquan Zhu,
“Using WordNet to Disambiguate Word
Senses for Text Classification”, Workshop on Text Data
Mining in conjunction with 7th International Conference on Computational
Science, May 2007, Beijing, China.
[12] Jing Wang, Ying Liu, Lin Zhou, Yong Shi, Xingquan Zhu, “Pushing Frequency Constraint to Utility Mining Model”, Workshop on High Performance Data Mining in conjunction with 7th International Conference on Computational Science, May 2007, Beijing, China.
[13] Xingsen Li, Yong Shi, Ying Liu, “A
Knowledge Management Platform for Optimization-based Data Mining”,
Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques with Applications in
conjunction with 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December
2006, Hong Kong, China.
[14] Xingsen Li, Ying Liu, Jun Li, Yong Shi, Yuejin Zhang,
“A Knowledge Management Model for
Middle and Small Enterprises”, 2006 International
Conference on Distributed Computing and Applications for Business Engineering
and Sciences, October 2006, Hangzhou, China.
[15] Ying Liu, Alok Choudhary, Jianhong Zhou, Ashfaq Khokhar, “A Scalable Distributed Stream Mining System for Highway Traffic Data”, 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), September 2006, Berlin, Germany.
[16] Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary,
“A Fast High Utility Itemsets Mining Algorithm”,
Workshop on Utility-Based Data Mining in conjunction with the 11th ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), August
2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[17] Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary,
“A Two-Phase Algorithm for Fast Discovery of High Utility
Itemsets”, 9th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), May 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam.
[18] Ying Liu, Jayaprakash Pisharath, Wei-keng Liao, Gokhan Memik, Alok
Choudhary, Pradeep Dubey, “Performance
Evaluation and Characterization of Scalable Data Mining Algorithms”,
16th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and
Systems (PDCS), pp. 620-625, November 2004, MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
[19] Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, Steve Chiu,
“On-Line Processing Model for Data
Mining in Large Scientific Simulations”, 7th Workshop on
Mining Scientific and Engineering Datasets in conjunction with SIAM
International Conference on Data Mining
(SDM), pp. 31-38, April 2004, Lake Buena
Vista, Florida, USA.
[20] Wei-keng Liao, Ying Liu, Alok
Choudhary, “A Grid-based
Clustering Algorithm using Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, 7th
Workshop on Mining Scientific and Engineering Datasets in conjunction with SIAM
International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pp. 61-69, April
2004, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.
[21] Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, “Design and Evaluation of a Parallel HOP Clustering Algorithm for Cosmological Simulation”, 17th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2003, Nice, France.
• POSTERS
[1] Ying Liu, Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, “Utility Mining and Advanced Association Mining Algorithms”, 2nd Midwest Database Research Symposium, April 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[2] Ying Liu, Jayaprakash Pisharath, Wei-keng Liao, Gokhan Memiki, Alok
Choudhary,“Design,
Development, and Characterization of Data Mining Algorithms on High Performance
Computers”, 1st Midwest Database Research Symposium,
April 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[3] Jayaprakash Pisharath, Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary,
“High Performance Data Mining”,
1st Midwest Database Research Symposium, April 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
[4] Ying Liu, Steve Chiu, Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary,
“High-Performance Data Storage,
Management, and Mining for Parallel Data-Intensive Computing”,
Poster session in the Annual Research Symposium at the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, Northwestern University, April 2003, Evanston, Illinois,
USA.
Honors
• Best Course Award,
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008
• Dissertation-Year Fellowship Nomination, Northwestern University, 2004
• Best Poster Award, ECE graduate students poster session, Northwestern University,2003
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Research Assistantship, ECE Department, Northwestern University, 1999 - Present
• Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Peking University,
1997
• XI YUE Scholarship to best undergraduate students,
Peking University, 1997
• GE (General Electronics) China Scholarship to best
undergraduate students, Peking University, 1996
• Outstanding Freshmen Award, Peking University, 1995
Professional Activities
• Workshop Chair for Workshop
on High Performance Data Mining with 7th International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM), 2007
•
Workshop Chair for Workshop on High Performance Data Mining with 7th
International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 2007
• Reviewer for 7th International Conference on
Computational Science (ICCS), 2007
• Reviewer for International Journal of Information
Technology and Decision Making
• Reviewer for SIAM International Conference on Data
Mining (SDM), 2005
• Reviewer for International Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA), 2004
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics (TSMC)
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering (TKDE)
• Reviewer for IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI), 2008
• Reviewer for IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), 2008
• Reviewer for IEEE Youth Conference on Information, Computing and Telecommunications, 2009.