Zhijun Yin

Office: 2119B Siebel Center, 201 N Goodwin Ave.,
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217)979-9714
Email: zyin3 [at] uiuc.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, Urbana and Champaign

About me

I am a third year Ph.D student at the Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
My advisor is Prof. Jiawei Han.
My research interests include network analysis, web mining and algorithm design for data mining problems.

Education

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

Research

2007.8.-present

Research Assistant
Under the direction of Prof. Jiawei Han

Publication

Zhijun Yin, Rui Li, Qiaozhu Mei, and Jiawei Han, "Exploring Social Tagging Graph for Web Object Classification", Proc. 2009 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'09), Paris, France, June 2009 [Paper] [Slide] [Data Set] [Code]

Xin Jin, Sangkyum Kim, Jiawei Han, Liangliang Cao, and Zhijun Yin, "GAD: General Activity Detection for Fast Clustering on Large Data", Proc. 2009 SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining (SDM'09), Sparks, NV, April 2009

Zhijun Yin, Milad Shokouhi, and Nick Craswell, "Query Expansion Using External Evidence", Proc. the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'09), Toulouse, France, April 2009

Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Peixiang Zhao, Zhijun Yin, Hong Cheng and Tianyi Wu, "RankClus: Integrating Clustering with Ranking for Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis", Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT'09), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, March 2009

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

Yizhou Sun, Tianyi Wu, Zhijun Yin, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin and Peixiang Zhao, "BibNetMiner: mining bibliographic information networks"(demo), Proc. 2008 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'08), Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2008

Industry Experience

2009.6.-2009.8.	Research Intern, Data Management, Exploration and 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.	SDE Intern, Member Platform Group, Microsoft Windows Live China, Shanghai, China

Award

SIGMOD Undergraduate Award 2007

Last modified: August 24 2009