| Research |
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| Research
Interests |
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PRIMARY
TEACHING/RESEARCH INTEREST
Knowledge Discovery and Management
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SPECIFIC
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Knowledge Discovery and Management
Web mining and data mining
Decision Support Systems
Human-Computer Interaction
Electronic Commerce
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| Professional
Experience |
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Research
Associate,
August 2001-present
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University
of Arizona |
Led
and involved in various projects on business intelligence,
e-government, and terrorism informatics (see Research
Projects for details)
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Co-author
of grant proposals:
1. “Transformational Potential of Terrorists
Use of Internet: Global Trends Based on e-Sophistication,”
submitted to NSF Human & Social Dynamics
2. “Public Traces of Dark Spaces: Interpreting
E-sophistication of Terrorist Organizations’
Internet Usage,” submitted to The Advanced Research
and Development Activity (ARDA)
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Research
Assistant, Sept, 2000 – June, 2001
Natural Language Processing Lab, Computer Science Department,
Shanghai Jiaotong University |
Developed
Information Extraction system for stock market tracking
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Intern,
Dec, 2000 – Feb, 2001
AXA Insurance Corporation, Shanghai |
Operated
and developed programs on AS/400 and DB2 |
| Research
Projects |
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1.
Multilingual Web Retrieval (5/2002-present)
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| Funded
by “High Performance Digital Library Classification
Systems: From Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management,
NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative Phase 2,”
May 1999 - April 2002 (IIS-9817473) |
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- Designed
and developed a Chinese Medical Portal (CMedPort),
and evaluated its usability and impact to the medical
community.
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--Forthcoming
in Decision Support Systems (DSS)
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Designed and developed an English-Chinese cross-lingual
Web retrieval system in the IT/Business domain, and
evaluated its effectiveness and efficiency.
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--Forthcoming
in Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (JASIST)
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Designed and developed a Multilingual Web Retrieval
system in the IT/Business domain, and evaluated its
performance (effectiveness). The system supports retrieval
of English, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese
documents with English queries.
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- Investigated
the Pivot Language translation techniques in cross-lingual
information retrieval.
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--To
be submitted to ACM Transactions on Information
Systems (TOIS)
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Developed a “Dark Web Portal”, a multilingual
(English, Spanish and Arabic) testbed of terrorist
Websites with search and post-retrieval analysis functionality.
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--Published
in IEEE Intelligent Systems
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Developed an English-Arabic cross-lingual retrieval
system. Investigated Arabic language processing techniques.
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Designed a framework for Name Transliteration based
on Hidden Markov Model and Web mining approach, evaluated
on English-Chinese and English-Arabic name transliteration.
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To be submitted to ACM Transactions on Information
Systems (TOIS)
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| 2.
The Dark Web Portal: Researching Terrorist Groups on the
Web (5/2003-present) |
| Funded
by “Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination ARJIS/COPLINK
’Border Safe’ Research and Testbed,”
NSF/CIA, September 2003 - August 2005; (EIA-9983304) |
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3.
DGPort: Mapping Knowledge in the Digital Government
Domain (8/2002-1/2004) |
| Funded
by “DGPort: Mapping Knowledge in the Digital Government
Domain” NSF 0302353, January 2003-January 2004.
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To be submitted to Journal of Management Information
Systems (JMIS)
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4.
Digital Library Toolkit (5/2002-5/2003) |
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--Under
review in Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
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5.
NanoPort: Intelligent Web Search(8/2001-11/2002) |
Funded
by “NanoPort: Intelligent Web Search for Nanoscale
Science and Engineering” NSF, February 2002 –
November 2002 (CTS-0204375). |
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--Forthcoming
in Decision Support Systems (DSS)
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