Leo (Lei) Liu
**** ******* ****, *** **, East Lansing, MI, US.
Homepage: www.cse.msu.edu/~liulei1 Phone: 517-***-**** *******@***.***.***
EDUCATION
Michigan State University (MSU) Sep 2009 ~ Present
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) Sep 2003~June 2009
B.S. & M.S. Computer Science (GPA: 3.8/4.0, Ranking: 1/380)
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Data Mining Group, Michigan State University Sep 2009 ~ Present
Developed algorithms that use links and content attributes simultaneously to classify network data; Large scale
multi-class classification with application to network data.
R & D Intern, Narus Inc. (part of Boeing), Mountain View, CA Summer 2011, 2012
Large scale malware detection by using techniques from Data Mining, Machine Learning and Graph theory.
R & D Intern, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Apr 2008 ~ Apr 2009
Developed a query expansion system based on word physical distance, built a dynamic classifier system, which could
classify the news parsed from web into multi-classes, by inviting reject rate, system precision could above 99%
Software Engineer Intern, Yahoo, Beijing, China June 2007 ~ Dec 2007
Participated in a project to expand the user query words and analyzed user interests based on their visiting history,
provided the search results by clusters, resulting into several clusters ba sed on users feedback
Research Assistant, Key Lab of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electronics, BUPT Sep 2008 ~ June 2009
Developed a system to craw information from PubMed and extract the gene name and relations from the files collected,
figure out what s the different relation among different genes between patient and healthy people, visualize results
Research Assistant, Key Lab of Intelligent Research, School of Computer, BUPT Sep 2007 ~ April 2009
Adaptive clustering algorithm based on K-Means.
PUBLICATIONS
Lei Liu, Sabyasachi Saha, Ruben Torres, Jianpeng Xu, Pang-Ning Tan, Antonio Nucci, Combining Link and Flow
Information for Hidden Malicious Clients Detection in HTTP Flows, submitted to 32nd Annual IEEE International
Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013), April 14 - April 19, 2013, Turin, Italy.
Prakash Mandayam Comar, Lei Liu, Sabyasachi Saha, Pang-Ning Tan, Antonio Nucci, One-Class SVM with Tree
Transformation and Profiling for Zero-Day Malware Detection, submitted to 32nd Annual IEEE International
Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013), April 14 - April 19, 2013, Turin, Italy.
Prakash Mandayam Comar, Lei Liu, Sabyasachi Saha, Pang-Ning Tan, Antonio Nucci, Missing or Inapplicable:
Treatment of Incomplete Continuous-valued Features in Supervised Learning, submitted to 2013 SIAM International
Conference on Data Mining (SDM13), May 2 - May 4, 2013, Austin, Texas, USA.
Lei Liu, Prakash Mandayam Comar, Sabyasachi Saha, Pang-Ning Tan, Antonio Nucci, Recursive NMF: Efficient Label
Tree Learning for Large Multi-Class Problems, Accepted Oral Presentation, to appear in 21st International Conference
on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), November 11-15, 2012, Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
Prakash Mandayam Comar, Lei Liu, Sabyasachi Saha, Antonio Nucci, Pang-Ning Tan, Weighted Linear Kernel with
Tree Transformed Features For Malware Detection, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM 2012), October 29 - November 2, 2012, Sheraton, Maui Hawaii, USA.
Lei Liu, Pang-Ning Tan, A Framework for Co-Classification of Articles and Users in Wikipedia, Proceeding of 2010
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI 2010), Toronto, Canada
Lei Liu, Lei Li, Yixin Zhong, Using cluster to enhance text classification, China-Ireland International Conference on
Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT 2008), Beijing, China
Lei Liu, Lei Li, Yixin Zhong, Semantic clustering algorithm analysis based on user interests, First National How Net
(bilingual semantic knowledgebase) Conference 2008, Beijing, China
Ying Sun, Lin Wang, Lei Liu, Integrative decomposition procedure and kappa statistics set up ATF2 ion binding
module in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM), Frontiers of electrical and electronic engineering in China
Leo (Lei) Liu
2650 Marfitt Road, Apt 18, East Lansing, MI, US.
Homepage: www.cse.msu.edu/~liulei1 Phone: 517-***-**** *******@***.***.***
PATENT SUBMISSION
New class discovery for automated discovery, attribution, analysis, and risk assessment of security threats, filed in
November, 2011.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval, MSU Sep 2010 ~ Dec 2010
Prepared software package for student, including Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), POS tagging, K-means
clustering, SVM, fitting algorithm, Lemur, etc. Grading projects, homework and holding an office hour.
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to programming II, MSU Sep 2009 ~ Dec 2009
Taught three lab sections, grade projects, exams and engage in system administration of object-centered programming
using C++ with ADT and STL; Stacks, queues, lists, trees, and hash tables; Algorithms operating on data structures
CO-FOUNDER & CHEIF TECHNICAL ENGINEERING OF LN-INFO GROUNP, INC.
LN-Info group is established to promote the informatization of enterprises in United States and China. Here are
some of the selected projects:
o Asia America Law Group o Fujian. Jian u Oriental Village AWARDS AND HONORS
Graduate Assistantship from Michigan State University Sep 2009 - Present
Graduate Student International Travel Grant (GSITG), MSU Dec 2012
Graduate Study Fellowship from College of Engineering, MSU Nov 2012
Conference Travel Grant from Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, MSU Oct 2012
COGS Conference Grant from Michigan State University Sep 2010
Dean Fellowship from College of Engineering, MSU May 2010
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Samsung scholarship for top 1 student in school of computer from BUPT Dec 2008
Excellent graduate student awarded by Beijing Municipal Government, China July 2007
SKILLS
Proficient in Java (6Yrs), Mat Lab (4Yrs), C++ (6Yrs), Perl (4Yrs), Python (4Yrs), C# (4Yrs)
Experienced in programming on Windows & Linux environments, familiar with oracle, MySql, SQL server database
Proficient in Data mining & Information retrieval software packages, Weka, Lemur, SVM light, etc