Guozhu Dong Professor  Office: Joshi 383 Phone: (937)775-5066 FAX: (937)775-5133 Email: guozhu.dong [|at|] wright.edu

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

Research Interests

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Knowledge Transfer Oriented Data Mining; Blog Mining; Medical Data Mining; Data Cube and OLAP; Bioinformatics, Mining of Microarray Gene Expression Data; Information Security; Mining of 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 (listed in reverse chronological order)

Teaching

CS705: Introduction to Data Mining; CS405/605: Introduction to Database Management Systems; CS466/666: Introduction to Formal Languages; CS701: Database Systems and Design; CS400: Data Structures and Software Design; CS790: Advanced Data Mining; CS790: Data Warehousing

Recent Sponsored Projects (more details are available here)

• EAGER: Knowledge Transfer Oriented Data Mining with Focus on the Decision Trees Knowledge Type, NSF IIS-1044634, 2010-2011.
• Enhancement and Commercialization of Comparative Web Search Technologies, Wright State University, 2007-2009.
• 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.

Publications

• H-index=31, total citations>4450 (scholar.google.com)
• List of published books and papers (maintained by self) , and maintained at the (DBLP) Computer Science Bibliography.
• Citations: (1) Citations at scholar.google.com. (2) Citations at Citeseer.
• Best Paper Award at 2005 IEEE ICDM.
• Book: Guozhu Dong and Jian Pei. Sequence Data Mining, Springer. August 2007. page at Amazon
• Book: Guozhu Dong and James Bailey (editors). Contrast Data Mining: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series), September 2012.

Resources on Contrast Mining, Emerging Pattern Mining, and Applications

2011 list of papers on Contrast Mining and Applications, and the corresponding bibtex file.

Presentation:Survey on Contrast Data Mining and Applications, December 2011..

2011 International Workshop on Contrast Data Mining and Applications..

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

2007 list of papers on Mining of Emerging Patterns, Changes, Contrasts/Differences. .

Recent Activities

• Contrast Data Mining (ContrastDM) Workshop co-chair, 2011
• Tutorial co-chair, VLDB 2010.
• Poster chair, Second International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction, 2009.
• Area chair (Frequent Pattern Mining), program committee of the 2009 SIAM SDM Conference.
• Tutorial on "Contrast Data Mining: Methods and Applications" at the 2007 IEEE ICDM.
• Co-Chair, Program Committee, Joint APWeb/WAIM Int'l Conference, 2007, Huangshan, Anhui, China.
• 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 60 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. United States Patent 7,912,847. Issued on 3/22/2011. (Filed as 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 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 6,424,948. Issued on 7/23/02. Guozhu Dong, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Jianwen Su, and Gang Zhou.

Professional Society Membership

• IEEE (Senior Member), ACM (Senior Member).

PhD Students and Masters Students

• Current PhD Students: Lakshika Balasuriya, Qian Han, Nicholas Skapura, Vahid Taslimi.
• Links to get information about our PhD program and admission requirements, and application materials.
• PhD Graduates: James Bailey (97), Chaoyi Pang (99), Jinyan Li (01), Xiuzhen Zhang (01), Chunyu Jiang (07), Lijun Chen (07), Shihong Mao (07), Lei Duan* (08, Joint supervision with Prof Tang, Sichuan University).
• 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), Ting Sa (08), Qian Han (10), Neil Fore (10).

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Last modified by Guozhu Dong, January 26, 2012.