Xiaohua Tony Hu, Ph.D. Founding Director: Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 Office: Rush Building 133, Phone: 215-895-0551, Email: thu AT cis.drexel.edu

1. Awards

· 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award

· Best Paper Award at the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

· Best Paper Award at the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

· 2007 IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Outstanding Contribution Award

· 2006 IEEE Granular Computing Outstanding Service Award

· 2001 IEEE Data Mining Outstanding Service Award

2. Publications (more than 160 peer-reviewed papers)

· 44 Journal Papers, 19 Book Chapters, 114 Conference Papers (Citations: Scholar.google.com, DBLP)

· Co-editors of 14 books/conference proceedings

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3. Funded Research Projects

· PI: Planning Grant: Industry & University Cooperative Research Center for Visual Decision Informatics (NSF, $10K, 09/01/2009-08/31/2010)

· Co-PI: Penn State Cancer Education Network Evaluation Phase 2 (PA Dept. of Health/CDC, $399K, 07/01/2008-06/31/2010)

· PI: Career: A unified architecture for data mining large biomedical literature databases (NSF, $415K, 03/2005-02/2010)

· PI: High performance rough sets data analysis in data mining (NSF, $102K, 07/2005-07/2008)

· Co-PI: Evaluation of Pennsylvania Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (PA Dept. of Health/CDC, $151K, 07/2007-06/2008)

· Co-PI: The Drexel University GAANN Fellowship Program: Educating Renaissance Engineers (US DoE, around $700K, 9/1/2006-7/31/2009)

· Co-PI: Penn State Cancer Education Network Evaluation Phase 1 (PA Dept. of Health, $500K, 04/01/2006-07/31/2008)

· Co-PI: Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (PA Dept. of Health, $1.5M, 09/2004-08/2007)

· Co-PI: Origin and evolution of genomic instability in breast cancer (PA Dept. of Health, $100K, 05/2004-04/2005)

· Co-PI: Systems biology approach to understand protein-protein interactions (PA Dept. of Health, $50K, 05/2004-04/2005)

4. Recent Books

5. Editorial Service

· Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (SCI indexed, inaugural issue)

· Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems (inaugural issue)

· Associate Editor of Advances in Data Warehousing and Mining Book Series, Editorial Board Member of the IJDWM, IJSOI, IJCIB, IJCBDD, KAIS (2005-2008)

6. IEEE and Recent Conference Services (2007-2009)

· IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Steering Committee Chair (2007-present)

· IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Granular Computing Technical Committee Chair (2007-2008)

· PC Co-Chair of the 2009 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 09)

· IEEE GrC 09, IEEE BIBM 09

7. Research Interests

· Data Mining (Text Mining, Web Mining, Semantic Web Mining)

· Bioinformatics, HealthCare/Medical Informatics

· Information Retrieval and Extraction, Digital Library

· Rough Sets in Data Mining, Data Warehouse/OLAP

8. My Ph.D. Students, Visiting Professors

· Illhoi Yoo (graduated in 2006, tenure-track assistant professor in Univ. of Missouri-Columbia)

· Davis Zhou (graduated in 2008, Data Miner & Analyst at LYZ Capital Advisors LLC)

· Xiaodan Zhang (graduate in 2009, Data Miner at LYZ Capital Advisors LLC)

· Daniel Wu (6^th year Ph.D. student, Data Mining and Biomolecular Network Analysis)

· Palakorn Achananuparp (5^th year Ph.D. student, Text Mining)

· Xuheng Xu (5^th year Ph.D. student, Semantic-based Query Optimization and Intelligent Searching)

· Deima Elnatour (4^th year Ph.D. student, Semantic-based Text Mining)

· Kaushal Desal (4^th year Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery)

· Zhong Huang (3^rd year Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology)

· Guisu Li (3^rd year Ph.D. student, Healthcare Informatics, co-supervised with Dr. Jung-ran Park)

· Caimei Lu (3^rd year PhD. Student, Meta data and social network analysis, co-supervised with Dr. Jung-ran Park)

· Xin Chen (2^nd year Ph.D. student, Image Mining and Annotation)

· Luis Ahumada (2^nd year Ph.D. student, Biomedical Database Systems)

· Lifan Guo (1^st year Ph.D. student, Text Mining)

· Lihua Wei (Ph.D candidate from Nanjing University of Technology, May-Oct. 2009)

· Ming Xu (Ph.D candidate from Fudan University, Jan 2008-Dec 2009)

· Yayao Zuo (Ph.D. candidate from Zhongshan University, March 2008-Jan 2009)

· Prof. Wu Chen (Visiting Professor, March, 2006-Feb., 2007)

· Dr. JiangTao Ren (Visiting Professor, June, 2006-Nov., 2006)

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