Knowledge Discovery and Management

Knowledge Discovery and Management
Web mining and data mining
Decision Support Systems
Human-Computer Interaction
Electronic Commerce

Database Management Systems
Programming Languages
Computer Networks and Data Communications
System Analysis and Design
Management Information Systems

Ph.D. Candidate in Management Information Systems
University of Arizona (GPA 4.0), Expected May 2006
Minor: Linguistics
Dissertation Topic: Supporting Knowledge Discovery in a Multilingual World: Case Studies in Business Intelligence
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Hsinchun Chen
Major Committee Members: Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker, Dr. J. Leon Zhao
Minor Committee Member: Dr. Terry Langendoen

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, July 2001

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)

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)

Research Assistant, Sept, 2000 – June, 2001
Natural Language Processing Lab, Computer Science Department, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Developed Information Extraction system for stock market tracking

Operated and developed programs on AS/400 and DB2

Instructor, Summer 2005, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona

MIS 304: Using and Managing Information Systems (Eller College undergraduate core course)
Enrollment: 29
Evaluation: 4.3 / 5.0

Topics include: telecommunication, computer hardware and software, database management systems, e-commerce and e-business, ERP, CRM and SCM, system design and development, decision support systems.

1. Zhou, Y., Reid, E., Qin, J., Lai, G., Chen, H., “U.S. Domestic Extremist Groups on the Web: Link and Content Analysis,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for National and Homeland Security, Vol. 20, Issue 5, 2005, pp. 44-51.

2. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Chau, M., and Chen, H., "Multilingual Web Retrieval: An Experiment in English-Chinese Business Intelligence," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), forthcoming.

3. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., and Chen, H., "CMedPort: An Integrated Approach to Facilitating Chinese Medical Information Seeking," Decision Support Systems (DSS), forthcoming.

4. Chau, M., Huang, Z., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., and Chen, H., "Building a Scientific Knowledge Web Portal: The NanoPort Experience," Decision Support Systems (DSS), forthcoming.

1. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Reid, E. and Chen, H., “Jihad on the Web Infrastructure: Link and Content Analysis,” submitted to Communications of the ACM (CACM).

2. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Reid, E., Lai, G., and Chen, H., "Analyzing Terror Campaign on the Internet: Technical Sophistication, Media Richness, and Web Interactivity," submitted to International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS), Special Issue on Information Security in the Knowledge Economy.

3. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., and Chen, H., “Using Genetic Algorithm in Building Domain-Specific Collections: An Experiment in the Nanotechnology Domain,” submitted to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). 

4. Chau, M., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Tseng, C. and Chen, H., “A Framework for Creating Personal Search Engines in Multiple Languages,” submitted to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).

1. “Multilingual Web Retrieval: An Experiment on a Multilingual Business Intelligence Portal,“ with Qin, J., Chen, H., target Journal: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).

2. “A Framework for Proper Name Transliteration: Arizona NameTran,” with Huang, F., and Chen, H., target Journal: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).

3. “Development and Evaluation of A Web-based Digital Government Portal,” with Qin, J. and Chen, H., target Journal: Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS).

4. “NanoPort: A Scientific Web Portal for Nanotechnology,” with Qin, J., Chau, M. and Chen, H., target Journal: Communications of the ACM (CACM).

1. Chen, H., Zhou, Y., “Survey and History of Digital Library Development in the Asia Pacific,” in Yin-Leng Theng and Schubert Foo (Eds), Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific. Information Science Publishing, 2004, pp.1-20.

2. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., and Chen, H., "Developing an Intelligent Multi-Regional Chinese Medical Portal," in Yanqing Zhang (Eds), Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications. World Scientific Publishing, 2004, pp. 285-300.

1. Zhou, Y., Huang, F., Chen, H., “Combining Probability Model and Web Mining Model: A Framework for Proper Name Transliteration,” Proceedings of The 15th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2005), Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 10-11, 2005.

2. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., Lai, G., Reid E. and Chen, H., “Building Knowledge Management System for Researching Terrorist Groups on the Web,” Proceedings of the AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005), Omaha, NE, USA, August 11-14, 2005.

3. Qin, J., Xu, J., Zhou, Y. and Chen, H., “Studying Structure of Terrorist Networks: A Web Structural Mining Approach,” Proceedings of the AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005), Omaha, NE, USA, August 11-14, 2005.

4. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., Lai, G., Reid E. and Chen, H., “Studying the Presence of Terrorism on the Web: an Knowledge Portal Approach,” Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'05), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 7-11, 2005.

5. Chau, M., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Chunju Tseng and Chen, H., "SpidersRUs: Automated Development of Vertical Search Engines in Different Domains and Languages," Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'05), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 7-11, 2005.

6. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Lai, G., Reid, E., Sageman, M., and Chen, H., “The Dark Web Portal Project: Collecting and Analyzing the Presence of Terrorist Groups on the Web,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security (ISI 2005), Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.

7. Reid, E., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Lai, G., Sageman, M., Weimann, G., and Chen, H., “Collecting and Analyzing the Presence of Terrorists on the Web: A Case Study of Jihad Websites,” IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security (ISI 2005), Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.

8. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., Chen, H. and Nunamker, J. F. “Multilingual Web Retrieval: An Experiment on a Multilingual Business Intelligence Portal,” Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 38), Big Island, Hawaii, USA, January 3-6, 2005.

9. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., and Chau, M., "Building Domain-Specific Web Collections for Scientific Digital Libraries: A Meta-Search Enhanced Focused Crawling Method," Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'04), Tucson, Arizona, USA, June 7-11, 2004, pp. 135-141.

10. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., Chau, M., and Chen H., "Experiments on Chinese-English Cross-Language Retrieval at NTCIR-4," Proceedings of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-4), Tokyo, Japan, June 2-4, 2004.

11. Chen, H., Zhou, Y., Qin, J. and Larson, C., “Digital Government Portal: A Tool for Digital Government Research,” Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, DG.O 2004, Seattle, Washington, May 2004, Digital Government Research Center.

12. Chen, H., Qin, J., Reid, E., Chung, W., Zhou, Y., Xi, W., Lai, G., Bonillas, A. and Sageman, M., “The Dark Web Portal: Collecting and Analyzing the Presence of Domestic and International Terrorist Groups on the Web,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Washington D.C., October 3-6, 2004.

13. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., Chen, H., “CMedPort: Intelligent Searching for Chinese Medical Information,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL’03), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 8-11, 2003.

14. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Chau, M., Chen, H., “Supporting Multilingual Information Retrieval in Web Applications: An English-Chinese Web Portal Experiment,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL’03), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 8-11, 2003.

15. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., Chen, H., Huang, Z., Zhang, Y., Chung, W. and Wang, G., “CMedPort: A Cross-Regional Chinese Medical Portal,” Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'03), Houston, Texas, May 27-31, 2003, p. 379.

16. Qin, J., Huang, Z., Zhou, Y., Chau, M., Tseng, C., Yip, A., Ng, T. G., Guo, F., Chen, Z., and Chen, H., "NanoPort: A Knowledge Portal for Nanoscale Science and Engineering," Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'03), Houston, Texas, May 27-31, 2003, p. 387.

17. Chau, M., Chen, H., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Qin, Y., Sung, W., McDonald, D., "Comparison of Two Approaches to Building a Vertical Search Tool: A Case Study in the Nanotechnology Domain," Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'02), Portland, Oregon, July 14-18, 2002, pp. 135-144.

18. Chau, M., Chen, H., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Sung, W., Chen, M., Qin, Y., McDonald, D., Lally, A. and Landon, M., "NanoPort: A Web Portal for Nanoscale Science and Technology," Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'02), Portland, Oregon, July 14-18, 2002, p. 373.

1. Multilingual Web Retrieval (5/2002-present)

• Designed and developed a Chinese Medical Portal (CMedPort), and evaluated its usability and impact to the medical community.

 --Forthcoming in Decision Support Systems (DSS)

• Designed and developed an English-Chinese cross-lingual Web retrieval system in the IT/Business domain, and evaluated its effectiveness and efficiency.

--Forthcoming in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

• 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.    

• Investigated the Pivot Language translation techniques in cross-lingual information retrieval.

--To be submitted to ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

• Developed a “Dark Web Portal”, a multilingual (English, Spanish and Arabic) testbed of terrorist Websites with search and post-retrieval analysis functionality.

--Published in IEEE Intelligent Systems

• Developed an English-Arabic cross-lingual retrieval system. Investigated Arabic language processing techniques.

• Designed a framework for Name Transliteration based on Hidden Markov Model and Web mining approach, evaluated on English-Chinese and English-Arabic name transliteration.

-- To be submitted to ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

3. DGPort: Mapping Knowledge in the Digital Government Domain (8/2002-1/2004)

• Designed and developed the DGPort system (http://aidemo.eller.arizona.edu/dgport/)

-- To be submitted to Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)

4. Digital Library Toolkit (5/2002-5/2003)

• Designed and implemented the “SpidersRUs” digital library toolkit which allows users to build personal digital libraries and search engines (http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/spidersrus/).

--Under review in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

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).

• Designed and developed the NanoPort system (http://www.nanoport.org)

--Forthcoming in Decision Support Systems (DSS)

Graduate Research Assistantship, National Science Foundation, 2001-present
Graduate In-State Tuition Scholarship, University of Arizona, 2004-present
Graduate Travel Grant, University of Arizona, 2004
NTCIR Travel Grant, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, 2004
Renmin Fellowship, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, 1997-2001

Reviewed manuscripts for the following journals and conferences:

Journals: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics, Decision Support Systems (Part A), Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Digital Libraries

Conferences: International Conference on Information Systems (2002), Hawaii International Conference on System Science (2005), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2005), WITS (2003), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2002, 2003, 2004), NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (2003, 2004), European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (2003, 2004), International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), China Digital Library Conference (2002).

Participated in organizing paper review and editing for Digital Library – IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium (2002, Beijing).

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Visual Basic
Computer Applications: MS Office, MS Visual Studio, Borland JBuilder
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, MS Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP
Database Systems: MS SQL, Oracle, My SQL, Access
Internet Technologies: HTML, CGI, Applet, Servlet, JSP

Dr. Hsinchun Chen
McClelland Endowed Professor
Department of Management Information Systems
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Email: hchen@eller.arizona.edu
Phone: +1 (520) 621-2748

Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker
Regents and Soldwedel Professor
Department of Management Information Systems
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Email: nunamaker@eller.arizona.edu
Phone: +1 (520) 621-4475

Dr. J. Leon Zhao
Professor and Honeywell Fellow
Department of Management Information Systems
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Email: lzhao@eller.arizona.edu
Phone: +1 (520) 621-4546

Dr. Terry Langendoen
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Email: langendt@u.arizona.edu
Phone: +1 (520) 621-6898