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Wei Jin

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

College: College of Engineering

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2008
    Major: Computer Science and Engineering
    Specialization: Information Retrieval; Text and Web Mining
    Dissertation: Mining Hidden Associations in Text Corpora through Concept Chain and Graph Queries
  • MS, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2007
    Major: Computer Science and Engineering
    Specialization: Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • MS, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002
    Major: Computer Science
    Specialization: Multilingual Information Processing

Current Scheduled Teaching

CSCE 5200.401Information Retrieval and Web SearchSpring 2025
CSCE 5200.404Information Retrieval and Web SearchSpring 2025
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchFall 2024
CSCE 5200.404Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 2024
CSCE 5200.461Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

CSCE 6940.920Individual ResearchSpring 2024
CSCE 5200.004Information Retrieval and Web SearchSpring 2024 SPOT
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchFall 2023
CSCE 5200.004Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 2023 SPOT
CSCE 5200.601Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 2023 SPOT
CSCE 5200.004Information Retrieval and Web SearchSpring 2023 SPOT
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchFall 2022
CSCE 6940.720Individual ResearchSpring 2022
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
CSCE 4380.001Data MiningSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningSpring 2021 SPOT
CSCE 6950.720Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
CSCE 6940.720Individual ResearchSpring 2021
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
CSCE 5200.001Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 2020 SPOT
CSCE 5200.008Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 8W2 2020
CSCE 5200.008Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 2020
CSCE 4200.001Web Search and Information RetrievalFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
CSCE 6950.720Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
CSCE 6940.720Individual ResearchSpring 2020
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchFall 2019
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2019
CSCE 5950.820Master's ThesisSummer 10W 2019
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchSpring 2019
CSCE 5950.820Master's ThesisSpring 2019
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchFall 2018
CSCE 5200.001Information Retrieval and Web SearchFall 2018 SPOT
CSCE 5950.820Master's ThesisFall 2018
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2018
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchSpring 2018
CSCE 5200.001Information Retrieval and Web SearchSpring 2018 SPOT
CSCE 5950.820Master's ThesisSpring 2018
CSCE 4200.002Web Search and Information RetrievalSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
CSCE 6940.820Individual ResearchFall 2017
CSCE 5950.820Master's ThesisFall 2017
CSCE 6950.820Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
CSCE 5200.002Information Retrieval and Web SearchSpring 2017 SPOT
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningFall 2016 SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Yang, W., Chowdhury, S., Jin, W. (2023). Finding New Connections between Concepts from Medline Database Incorporating Domain Knowledge. Research Advances in Data Mining Techniques and Applications. pp. 2-17.
  • Singh, A., Porwal, U., Bhardwaj, A., Jin, W. (2023). Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Biomedical Analysis. Deep Learning. 48 pp. 9-27. Elsevier.
  • Yan, P., Slator, B., Jin, W. (2015). Intelligent Tutors In Immersive Virtual Environments. E-Learning Systems, Environments and Approaches: Theory and Implementation.
  • Conference Proceeding

  • Xu, R., Li, G., Jin, W., Chen, A., Sheng, V. (2023). ACCD: An Adaptive Clustering-based Collusion Detector in Crowdsourcing.. The Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
  • Xu, R., Li, G., Jin, W., Chen, A., Sheng, V. (2023). Adaptive Clustering-Based Collusion Detection in Crowdsourcing. Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications - 19th International Conference. pp. 261-275.
  • Yang, W., Chowdhury, S., Jin, W. (2022). Finding Hidden Relationships Between Medical Concepts by Leveraging Metamap and Text Mining Techniques. Advanced Data Mining and Applications - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference, ADMA 2022. pp. 41-52.
  • Ding, J., Jin, W. (2021). Evaluating Multiple-Concept Biomedical Hypotheses Based on Deep Sets. The 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN). 477-490.
  • Ding, J., Jin, W. (2021). Exploring Self-Supervised Graph Learning in Literature-Based Discovery. The 9th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). 53-62. IEEE.
  • Singh, A., Jin, W. (2020). On Using Composite Word Embeddings to Improve Biomedical Term Similarity. IEEE 20th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE). 281-287. IEEE.
  • Ding, J., Jin, W. (2019). OverlapLDA: A Generative Approach for Literature-Based Discovery. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2019). 1-8. IEEE.
  • Ding, J., Jin, W. (2019). A Prior Setting that Improves LDA in both Document Representation and Topic Extraction. Proceedings of 2019 international Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2019). 9-16. International Neural Network Society (INNS) in cooperation with the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
  • Ding, J., Jin, W. (2019). MDLDA: A New Multi-Dimension Topic Approach. Proceedings of 2019 international Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2019). 1-8. International Neural Network Society (INNS) in cooperation with the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
  • Shaik, A., Jin, W. (2019). Biomedical Semantic Embeddings: Using hybrid sentences to construct biomedical word embeddings and its applications. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019). 1-9. IEEE.
  • Singh, A., Blanco, E., Jin, W. (2019). Incorporating Emoji Descriptions Improves Tweet Classification. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). 2096--2101. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1214
  • Dharmavaram, S., Shaik, A., Jin, W. (2019). Mining Biomedical Data for Hidden Relationship Discovery. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019). 1-10. IEEE.
  • Florescu, C., Jin, W. (2019). A Supervised Keyphrase Extraction System Based on Graph Representation Learning. Proceedings of Advances in Information Retrieval - 41st European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2019). 197-212. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
  • Ding, J., Jin, W., Chen, H. (2018). Regression-Based Documents Reranking for Precision Medicine. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2018). 283-286. IEEE.
  • Jin, W., Florescu, C. (2018). Improving Search and Retrieval in Digital Libraries by Leveraging Keyphrase Extraction Systems. Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2018). 419-420. ACM/IEEE.
  • Florescu, C., Jin, W. (2018). Learning Feature Representations for Keyphrase Extraction. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18). 8077-8078. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and The MIT Press.
  • Zhu, Y., Jin, W., Zhang, Y. (2017). Identifying Implicit Features in Sentiment Analysis with Conditional Random Fields and Pattern Analysis. Proceedings of the The 30th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering. 185-192. International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA).
  • Li, X., Jin, W. (2016). Cross-Document Knowledge Discovery Using Semantic Concept Topic Model. 108-114. The 15th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'16).
  • Jha, K., Jin, W. (2016). Mining Novel Knowledge from Biomedical Literature using Statistical Measures and Domain Knowledge. 317-326. The 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics.
  • Chen, D., Edstrom, J., Chen, X., Jin, W., Wang, J., Gong, N. (2016). Data-Driven Low-Cost On-Chip Memory with Adaptive Power-Quality Trade-off for Mobile Video Streaming. 188-193. The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design.
  • Jha, K., Jin, W. (2016). Mining Hidden Knowledge from the Counterterrorism Dataset Using Graph-Based Approach. 310-317. The 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information System.
  • Singh, A., Jin, W. (2016). Ranking Summaries for Informativeness and Coherence without Reference Summaries. 104-109. The Twenty-Ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference.
  • Gopalakrishnan, V., Jha, K., Zhang, A., Jin, W. (2016). Generating Hypothesis: Using Global and Local Features in Graph to Discover New Knowledge from Medical Literature. 23 – 30. The 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2016).
  • Yan, P., Jha, K., Jin, W. (2016). Discovering Semantic Relationships between Concepts from MEDLINE. 370- 373. The 10th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2016).
  • Jin, W., Ho, H.H., Srihari, R.K. (2009). OpinionMiner: a novel machine learning system for web opinion mining and extraction. Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. 1195–1204.
  • Journal Article

  • Ding, J., Jin, W. (2021). COS: A new MeSH term embedding incorporating corpus, ontology, and semantic predications. PLOS One. PLoS One. 2021; 16(5): e0251094. pp. 1-16. PLOS.
  • Gopalakrishnan, V., Jha, K., Jin, W., Zhang, A. (2019). A survey on literature based discovery approaches in biomedical domain. Vol. 93 141-159. Elsevier.
  • Yan, P., Jin, W. (2017). Building semantic kernels for cross-document knowledge discovery using Wikipedia. 51 (1) 287-310. Springer.
  • Yan, P., Jin, W. (2015). Improving Cross-Document Knowledge Discovery through Content and Link Analysis of Wikipedia. Other. 21 161-184. Springer.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Contract

  • Jin, W. (Principal), "EAGER: Data-Mining Driven Power-Efficient Intelligent Memory Storage for Mobile Video Applications," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $28831 Funded. (2016 - 2018).
  • Grant - Research

  • Jin, W. (Principal), "CAREER: Creation, Visualization, and Mining of Domain Textual Graphs: Integrating Domain Knowledge and Human Intelligence," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $498432 Funded. (2015 - 2023).
  • Jin, W. (Principal), "CAREER: Creation, Visualization, and Mining of Domain Textual Graphs: Integrating Domain Knowledge and Human Intelligence," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2017 - 2022).
  • Jin, W. (Principal), "EAGER: Data-Mining Driven Power-Efficient Intelligent Memory Storage for Mobile Video Applications," sponsored by North Dakota State University, NFP, Funded. (2016 - 2018).
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