Hui Yang, Computer Science Department *
CURRICULUM VITAE
Hui Yang
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
San Francisco State University
Computer Science Department Phone: 1-415-***-****
San Francisco State
University Fax : 1-415-***-****
1600 Holloway Avenue Email: abo42j@r.postjobfree.com
San Francisco, CA, 94132
Webpage: http://www.cs.sfsu.edu/~huiyang
EDUCATION
The Ohio State University 9/2002 - 8/2006 Ph.D. Computer Science
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Dissertation: A Generalized Spatio -temporal Mining Framework for Scientific Data
The Ohio State University 8/2000 - 8/2002 M.S. Computer Science
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Thesis: On the Use of Temporally Constrained Associations for Web Usage Mining
Huazhong University of Science 9/1989 - 7/1993 B.S. Computer Science
and Technology, Wuhan, China
Thesis: Towards Semantically Extending Oracle SQL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
San Francisco State University, Assistant Professor8/2006 - present
San Francisco, CA, USA Dept. of Comp. Sci.
The Ohio State UniversityGraduate Research Associate1/20018/2006
Columbus, Ohio, USA Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Engr.
The Ohio State UniversityGraduate Teaching Associate3/200212/2003
Columbus, Ohio, USA Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Engr.
Oracle CorporationSoftware Analyst8/19997/2000
Beijing, China Technical Support Department
Genius Network Systems Co. Senior Software Engineer, Senior5/19977/1999
Beijing, China Database Systems ConsultantBank of China Software Developer 7/19934/1997
Henan, China Dept. of Info. Tech.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT SFSU
Classes Taught at San Francisco State University, Fall 2006 present
Semester Course title #Students #Responses Mean Q6
1
score Score
Fall, 2006 CSC510: Analysis of Algorithms I 35 28 3.00 3.50
2
Spring, 2007 CSC869: Data Mining 8 6 2.48 2.67
CSC213: Fundamentals of 27 23 1.99 2.32
Computer Science
Fall, 2007
CSC510: Analysis of Algorithms I 20 161.72 1.81CSC510: Analysis of Algorithms I 32 26 1.62 1.62
Spring, 2008
CSC869: Data Mining 15 12 1.65 1.75
CSC213-01: Fundamentals of 25 192.03 2.22
Computer Science
Fall, 2008
CSC213-02: Fundamentals of 22 17 1.99 2.12
Computer Science
CSC213: Fundamentals of 22 17 1.67 1.80
Computer Science
Spring, 2009
CSC869: Data Mining 25 22 1.94 1.98
CSC213-01: Fundamentals of 17 10 2.40 2.80
Computer Science
CSC213-02: Fundamentals of 26 12 1.58 1.69
Fall, 2009
Computer Science
CSC510: Analysis of Algorithms I 35 282.48 3.11
CSC213-01: Fundamentals of 22 19 1.61 1.84
Computer Science
Spring, 2010
CSC869: Data Mining 12 8 1.25 1.25
CSC213-01: Fundamentals of 6 5 1.50 1.67
Computer Science
Fall, 2010
CSC340: Programming 23 20 1.70 1.72
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Methodology
Spring, 2011 CSC869: Data Mining 17 17 2.31 2.41
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The scores in the last two columns range between 1 and 5. A lower score indicates better performance .
2
This was a new graduate course in the computer science department.
3
This was a new undergraduate course for sophomores and juniors in the computer science department.
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CSC340-01: Programming 25
Methodology
Fall, 2011
CSC340-02: Programming 35
Methodology
Master s Degree Committee Membership, Fall 2006 present
As the Master s thesis advisor and thesis committee chair:
Student Name Thesis Title Defense Time
1 Lin Han An Effective Approach to Identifying and Spring, 2008
Categorizing Evolving 3D Structural Motifs
in Protein Folding Data
2 Benjamin Dalziel XMAS: An experiential system for Summer, 2009
hypotheses generation and analysis of multi -
dimensional time series biological data
3 Ajay Mysore Automatic text document summarization Fall, 2009
4 Abhishek Sharma Semantics based extraction of relationships in Spring, 2010
literature articles in the biomedical field
5 Rajesh Opinion mining and strength analysis for Spring, 2010
Swaminathon literature articles in the biomedical field
6. Saurabh Gupte Mining regular spatio-temporal patterns in Spring, 2011
protein folding trajectories.
7 Jason D Silva Visualizing the food-disease-gene network. Spring, 2011
8 Neal Lewis Extracting family history from clinical notes Spring, 2011
using dependency parser.
9 Dong Yan Semantically classifying bio-entities and Fall, 2011
relationships.
10 Vilas Ketkar Sentence simplification to improve Spring, 2012
relationship extraction from biomedical text
using natural language processing techniques .
11 Carly Stambaugh Feature evaluation and selection for mining TBD
the polarity of biomedical relationships.
12 Cassidy Kelly Extracting study design parameters from TBD
biomedical articles.
13 Yuan Wang TBD TBD
14 Abhishek Savant TBD TBD
As a faculty member on a Master s thesis committee:
Student Name Defense Time
1 Haishi Bai Spring 2007
2 Rohit Kataria Fall 2007
3 Jalpa Trivedi Spring 2008
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4 Scott Bishop Summer 2008
5 Aditi Oza Spring 2008
6 Michalis Pittas Spring 2010
7 Yang Yang Spring 2010
8 Tomi Haryanto Spring 2010
9 Kayven Riese Spring 2011
10 William Murad Spring 2011
11 Sergey Sergeev TBD
12 Tingting Sun TBD
13 Miyuki Suzuki TBD
14 Wei Luo TBD
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND GROWTH
Biology 2007, 2:3 (As a major contributing author: 95%)
[15] Sharonda Wallace, Patricia Wakimoto, Hui Yang, and Ray Conference
Rodriguez, Development of an on -line survey to assess training poster.
needs in nutritional genomics, Experimental Biology Annual
Meeting 2007 (Sole contributing author in software development
and data analysis.)
[16] Sharonda Wallace, Patricia Wakimoto, Hui Yang, Raymond Conference
Rodriguez, An online survey to assess nutri tion practioners' poster.
training needs in nutritional genomics (poster), The Second Bruce
Ames International Symposium on Nutrional Genomics, October,
2007 (Sole contributing in software development and data
analysis.)
2008
[17] Ben Dalziel*, Hui Yang, Rahul Singh, Matthew Gormley and Conference
Susan J. Fisher, XMAS: An Experiential Approach for paper.
Visualization, Analysis, and Exploration of Time Series
Microarray Data, Bioinformatics Research and Development
(BIRD) 2008 (*: student co-author. Equal contribution from
Rahul Singh and Hui Yang. )
[18] Hui Yang and Lin Han*, An Effective Approach for Identifying Conference
Evolving Three-dimensional Structural Motifs in Protein Folding paper.
Data, in proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Advanced Data Mining And Applications (ADMA 2008),
Springer Verla (*: student co-author. Acceptance rate: 12%)
[19] Sharonda Wallace, Hui Yang, Ajay Mysore*, Patricia Journal
Wakimoto, Raymond Rodriguez, An online survey of current and article.
emerging nutrition and dietetic professionals to assess training
needs in nutritional genomics, Journal of American Dietetic
Association (accepted) (*: student co-author. Major contributing
author in software development, algorithm design, and data
analysis.)
2009
[20] Hui Yang, Ajay Mysore*, and Sharonda Wallace, A Semi- Conference
supervised Topic-driven Approach for Clustering Textual paper.
Answers to Survey Questions, in proceedings of the Fifth
International Conference on Advanced Data Mining And
Applications (ADMA 2009), Springer Verlag (*: student co-
author. Acceptance rate: 12%)
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[21] Ben Dalziel*, Hui Yang, and Rahul Singh, XMAS: Experiential Conference
Visualization, Analysis, and Mining of Time -Series Microarray paper.
Experiments, Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2010
(APBC 2010). (*: student co-author. Accepted as a poster
paper.)
[22] Hui Yang and Michael Wrinn (Intel), A workshop proposal on Conference
OpenMP in the classroom, ACM Special Interest Group in workshop
Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2010. proposal.
[23] Hui Yang, Saurabh Gupte*, Runtang Wang*, and Rahul Parte*, Conference
Folding-aware and Structure-conscious 3D Substructures in paper.
Folding Data: Identification and Applications, the 2nd
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology (BICoB). (*: student co-authors)
[24] Abhishek Sharma*, Rajesh Swaminathon*, Vilas Ketkar, and Conference
Hui Yang, On Building a Quantitative Food -Disease-Gene paper.
Network, the 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology (BICoB). (*: student co-authors)
2010
[25] Rajesh Swaminathan*, Abhishek Sharma*, and Hui Yang, Conference
Opinion Mining for Biomedical Text Data: Feature Space Design paper.
and Feature Selection, the Nineth International Workshop on
Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD 2010), Washington
DC, July, 2010 (*: student co-authors)
[26] Abhishek Sharma*, Rajesh Swaminathan*, and Hui Yang, A Conference
Verb-centric Approach for Relationship Extraction in Biomedical paper.
Text, The fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic
Computing (ICSC2010), September, 2010, Pittsburg, PA
(*: student co-authors)
[27] Hui Yang, Lin Han*, and Saurabh Gupte*, Identification and Book
Applications of Three-dimensional Non-local Structural Motifs in chapter
Protein Folding Data, accepted as a chapter in the book to,
iConcept Press, 2010 (*: student co-authors)
2011
[28] Neal Lewis*, Daniel Gruhl (IBM Almaden), and Hui Yang, Conference
Extracting Family History from Clinical Text, the 3rd paper.
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology (BICoB), 2011. (*: student co-author)
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[29] Hui Yang, Rajesh Swaminathan *, Abhishek Sharma*, Vilas Book
Ketkar* and Jason D`Silva*, Mining Biomedical Text Towards chapter.
Building a Quantitative Food-disease-gene Network, a book
chapter in the Book Documents, Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence >,
Editors: Marenglen Biba and Fatos Xhafa . Springer. (*: student
co-author)
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Honors and Awards
1990- Scholarship of Distinction and Merit, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
1993 Wuhan, China
1995 Employee of the Year, Bank of China (Henan), 1995
2004 Best Paper nomination at SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
2005 Student Travel Award ($250), International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining (SIGKDD)
2005 Student Travel Award ($1000), International Joint Conference of Artificial Intellig ence
(IJCAI)
2006 NSF-TRUST WISE Summer School Fellowship ($2500.00), 2006
External Funding Submissions.
Year Research proposal Funding Program Amount
2006 Managing and mining protein Microsoft E-science grant program $5,000
folding trajectories
2007 A Novel Approach for Analyzing CSUPERB: CSU Faculty-Student Not funded.
and Mining Protein Folding Collaborative Research Seed Grant
Trajectories in 3.5 Dimensions Program.
Budget: $15,000
2008 Who do you trust? Build a CSUPERB: CSU Faculty-Student Not funded.
probabilistic food-disease-gene Collaborative Research Seed Grant
network. Program
Budget: $15,000
2009 A software system to intra - National Health Institute (NIH) Not funded.
structurally decipher the protein SCORE program
folding data.
Budget: $225,000
2010 Collaborative Research: Innovative NSF CCLI proposal. Submitted in Not funded.
Approaches to Develop Modern January 2010.
Distributed Computing Instruction,
with Appalachian State University
(lead), North Carolina A&T
Budget: $35,000
(NCAT), University of North
Carolina, Charlotte (UNCC), and
Louisiana Tech University.
2010 Recognizing diseases, drugs, and IBM Almaden Research Center $12,500
procedures in clinical reports.
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2010 Family history extraction from IBM Almaden Research Center $3,000
clinical notes.
2011 Collaborative Research:Developing NSF s smart health and wellbeing Not funded.
new algorithms for extracting, program. Submitted in December
quantifying and integrating food- 2010.
centric relations from literature
Budget: $291,780
towards better human health
2011 Learning food-centric networks for Pending.
Google faculty research awards
better human health from mining
program. Submitted in August,
journal publications
2011.
Budget: $43,630
Foundation and Other Funding
Year Research proposal Funding Program Amount
2006 Nutrigenomics: Learning SFSU Center for Computing for $8,000
Educational Needs and Beyond Life Sciences (CCLS) mini grant
program
2007 Characterizing the evolutionary SFSU Center for Computing for $5,000
nature of protein folding data Life Sciences (CCLS) mini grant
program
2007 Nutritional Genomics--Stage II: SFSU Center for Computing for $2,000
Mining the Educational Needs for Life Sciences (CCLS) mini grant
Nutrition Practitioners in program
Nutritional Genomics
2008 Building a probabilistic network of SFSU Center for Computing for $6,000
foods, genes and diseases Life Sciences (CCLS) mini grant
program
2009 Mining biomedical literature to SFSU Center for Computing for $5000
build a quantitative food-disease- Life Sciences (CCLS) mini grant
gene network. program
2011 Design novel algorithms to learn SFSU ORSP grants for facilitating $15,000
food-centric networks from research and creative work at San
analyzing journal articles. Francisco State University.
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SERVICE TO CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY
Services on Campus
Fall 2006
Advising for the Minor Program in Computer Science
Committee member on the Best CER Awards to graduate students in Computer Science
Member of the Taskforce on CS C213-CSC413 Advising
Spring 2007
Advising for the Minor Program in Computer Science
Member of the committee on RTP policies in Computer Science Dept.
Speaker of the Graduate Seminar Series at Computer Science Dept.
Judge at the annual COSE Project Showcase
Fall 2007
Advising for the Minor Program in Computer Science
Sophomore advising
Volunteer to The View After a Year or Two at the New Faculty Orientation 2007
Panel member at the Exchange Student Orientation
Faculty representative at the COSE student-faculty dinner
Spring 2008
Advising for the Minor Program in Computer Science
Sophomore advising
CSC213 mandatory advising
Judge at the annual COSE Project Showcase
Fall 2008
Freshmen advising
Sophomore advising
CSC213 mandatory advising
CSC413 mandatory advising
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Member of the taskforce on the Computing -for-Life-Science concentration of the
graduate programs in computer science
Speaker of the Graduate Seminar Series at Computer Science Dept.
Spring 2009
Freshmen advising
Sophomore advising
CSC213 mandatory advising
Member of the committee on lower division transferring sequence in computer science
Invited Dr. Andreas Weigend for a graduate seminar talk of The Social Data Revolution
Fall 2009
CSC213 mandatory advising
Computer Science graduate seminar series coordinator
Secretary of the SFSU Chinese American Faculty and Staff Association (CAFSA)
Spring 2010
Computer Science graduate seminar series coordinator
Secretary of the SFSU Chinese American Faculty and Staff Association (CAFSA)
Fall 2010
Secretary of the SFSU Chinese American Faculty and Staff Association (CAFSA)
Freshmen advising
Sophomore advising
Spring 2011
Freshmen advising
Sophomore advising
The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD),
2007
International journal of data mining and bioinformatics, 2007
Journal of IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS-0213-1206), 2007
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2007-
2011)
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Di scovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007 -
2011)
Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal, 2007 -2008
st
1 World Summit On The Knowledge Society, 2008
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2008
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2009-2011
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) 2010 -
2011
The 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
(DEXA) 2009-2010
IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2009--2010
Program Committee Member/Session Chair, 8/2006 - present (after joining SFSU)
Session Chair at the 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2007),
April 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Member of the Program Committee of The 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data
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Mining (SDM), 2007
Member of the Program Committee of the Pacific -Asia Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2007 2011
Member of the Program Committee of the ACM CIKM Workshop of Data and
Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMbio) 2007
Member of the Program Committee of The IEEE International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM ), 2007 2011
Session Chair at the Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data M ining And
Applications (ADMA), Chengdu, China, October 2008
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2009 -2011
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) 2010 -
2011
The 20th International Conference on Dat abase and Expert Systems Applications
(DEXA) 2009-2010
Professional Membership
Professional member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Professional member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Professional member of IEEE