Zhijun (ZJ) Yin

Office: 2119 Siebel Center, 201 N Goodwin Ave.,
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: zyin3 [at] illinois.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/zyin3

Data Mining Research Group
Database and Information Systems Research Laboratory
Computer Science Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About me

I am a fifth year Ph.D student at Data Mining Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
My advisor is Professor Jiawei Han.
My research interests are data mining, information retrieval and machine learning.

Education

2007.8.-present	PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003.8.-2007.7.	Bachelor of Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Selected Publications [DBLP]

Zhijun Yin, Liangliang Cao, Quanquan Gu, and Jiawei Han, "Latent Community Topic Analysis: Integration of Community Discovery with Topic Modeling", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 2012.

Zhijun Yin, Liangliang Cao, Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai, and Thomas Huang, "LPTA: A Probabilistic Model for Latent Periodic Topic Analysis", Proc. of 2011 Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM'11). [Paper]

Zhijun Yin, Liangliang Cao, Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai, and Thomas Huang, "Geographical Topic Discovery and Comparison", Proc. of 2011 Int. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW'11). [Paper] [Slides]

Zhijun Yin, Liangliang Cao, Jiawei Han, Jiebo Luo, and Thomas Huang, "Diversified Trajectory Pattern Raning in Geo-tagged Social Media", Proc. of 2011 SIAM Conf. on Data Mining (SDM'11). [Paper]

Manish Gupta, Rui Li, Zhijun Yin, and Jiawei Han, "Survey on Social Tagging Techniques", SIGKDD Explorations, 12(1):58-72, 2010. [Paper]

Zhijun Yin, Manish Gupta, Tim Weninger, and Jiawei Han, "A Unified Framework for Link Recommendation Using Random Walks", Proc. of 2010 Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'10). [Paper]

Zhijun Yin, Manish Gupta, Tim Weninger and Jiawei Han, "LINKREC: A Unified Framework for Link Recommendation with User Attributes and Graph Structure"(poster), Proc. of 2010 Int. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW'10). [Paper]

Zhijun Yin, Rui Li, Qiaozhu Mei and Jiawei Han, "Exploring Social Tagging Graph for Web Object Classification", Proc. of Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'09). [Paper] [Slides] [Dataset]

Zhijun Yin, Milad Shokouhi and Nick Craswell, "Query Expansion using External Evidences", Proc. of 2009 European Conf. on Information Retrieval (ECIR'09). [Paper]

Xiaolei Li, Jiawei Han, Zhijun Yin, Jae-Gil Lee and Yizhou Sun, "Sampling Cube: A Framework for Statistical OLAP over Sampling Data", Proc. of 2008 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'08). [Paper]

Experience

2011.6.-2011.8.	Summer Associate, Morgan Stanley Strats & Modeling, Morgan Stanley, New York City
2010.5.-2010.8.	Software Engineer Intern, System Health Group, Google, Mountain View
2009.6.-2009.8.	Research Intern, Data Management, Exploration & Mining Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond
2008.5.-2008.8.	Research Intern, Machine Learning & Perception Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
2006.10.-2007.3.	Research Intern, Machine Learning Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
2006.7.-2006.10.	Software Engineer Intern, Member Platform Group, Microsoft Windows Live, Shanghai, China
2005.1.-2005.5.	Exchange Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.

Award

David J. Kuck Outstanding Master Thesis Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010

SIGMOD Undergraduate Award, ACM SIGMOD, 2007

Shanghai Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 2007

Fudan Outstanding Graduate, Fudan University, 2007

Academic Excellence Award, Fudan University, 2003 - 2007

Dean's List of Engineering School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005

Misc

My gallery

Last modified: Jan 2012