Guozhu Dong
Professor 
Phone: (937)775-5066
FAX: (937)775-5133
Email: guozhu.dong {at=@} wright.edu


Data Mining Research Lab
Dept of Computer Sci & Engr
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435-0001 

Office Location

Joshi 383

Research Interests

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Data Cube and OLAP; Bioinformatics, Mining of Microarray Gene Expression Data; Information Security; Mining of Medical, Business, and Scientific Data; Mining and Management of Text/Image/Time-Series Data; Knowledge Management; Data Warehousing; Workflow and Active Databases; Database Languages; Datalog and Deductive Databases; Database Theory

Recruiting New PhD students

I am interested in motivated and qualified new PhD students who are interested in research on data mining (including topics related to pattern mining techniques, clustering, classification, security, internet search engines, and document repository management), bioinformatics and computational biology. Applicants can contact me at the email address above. Please follow the following links to get information about our PhD program and admission requirements, and application materials.

Teaching Interests

CS701: Database Systems and Design ; CS705: Introduction to Data Mining (this is a derivative of CS499/699: Data Mining (course website)); CS400/600: Data Structures and Software Design ; CS405/605: Introduction to Database Management Systems ; CS466/666: Introduction to Formal Languages; CS790: Advanced Data Mining ; CS790: Information Security ; CS790: Data Warehousing ;

Recent Sponsored Projects

  • Enhancement and Commercialization of Comparative Web Search Technologies, Wright State University, 2007-2008.
  • Metadata for Timeline Events, Lexis-Nexis, 2006-2007.
  • CRI: Instrumentation of a Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Network Test-Bed for Research and Education, NSF, 2005 -- 2007.
  • Toxicity Biomarker Discovery from Microarray Gene Expression Time Series Data Using Data Mining Approaches, Ohio Board of Regents, 2004-2005.
  • Secure Knowledge Management, Air Force Research Lab. 2003 -- 2004.
  • A Collaborative Project: Development of An Undergraduate Data Mining Course, NSF (DUE: 0231245), 2003.
  • Genome Research Infrastructure Partnership, Biotechnology Research and Technology Transfer (BRTT), Ohio. 2003.
  • Query Optimization in Reconfigurable Computing Systems. Air Force Research SBIR. 2000.

Tutorial slides: Contrast Data Mining: Methods and Applications (delivered at 2007 IEEE ICDM, by James Bailey and Guozhu Dong).

List of papers on Mining of Emerging Patterns, Changes, Contrasts/Differences.

Publications

Recent Activities

  • Tutorial on "Contrast Data Mining: Methods and Applications" at the 2007 IEEE ICDM.
  • Program Committee Co-Chair, Joint APWeb/WAIM Int'l Conference, 2007, Huangshan, Anhui, China.
  • International Editorial Board, International Journal of Information Technology.
  • Steering Committee, Int'l Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM).
  • Co-Chair, Program Committee, Int'l Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2003, Chengdu, China.
  • Program/Demo/Best-Paper Committee Member of over 50 International Conferences, Including ACM KDD, ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDM, PAKDD, SIAM SDM, VLDB, WAIM.

Patents

  • Comparative Web Search System and Method. US Provisional Application No. 60/890,687. 2/20/07. Hardik Lagad and Guozhu Dong.
  • Method and apparatus for classification of data by aggregating emerging patterns. United States Patent Number 6,507,843. Issued on 1/14/03. Guozhu Dong, Xiuzhen Zhang, Jinyan Li, Limsoon Wong.
  • Data item evaluation based on the combination of multiple factors. United States Patent 6,499,023. Issued on 12/24/02. Guozhu Dong, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Francois Llirbat, Eric Simon, Jianwen Su, Gang Zhou.
  • Declarative workflow system supporting side-effects. United States Patent Number 6,424,948. Issued on 7/23/02. Guozhu Dong, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Jianwen Su, and Gang Zhou.

Professional Society Membership

  • Professional Society Membership: IEEE (Senior Member), ACM.

PhD Students and Masters Students

  • Current PhD Students: Lei Duan*, Qian Han, Tim Hansell, Ying Sun.
  • PhD Graduates: James Bailey (97), Chaoyi Pang (99), Jinyan Li (01), Xiuzhen Zhang (01), Chunyu Jiang (07), Lijun Chen (07), Shihong Mao (07).
  • Current MS Students: Ting Sa, Lisa Jacobs.
  • Recent Masters Graduates: Lyubomir Zagorchev (00), Deshpande Kaustubh (00), Yadong Li (00), Xue Sun (02), Qun Sun (03), Hema Kalluri (04), Madhukar Suryaprakash (04), Nikhil Agrawal (06), Hardik Lagad (06).

*: Joint supervision with Professor C Tang, Sichuan University


Last modified by Guozhu Dong, September 2007.