Chi Wang PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   chiwang1 AT uiuc DOT edu

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I am a Computer Science PhD candidate in  Database and Information Systems Lab (DAIS)  group at UIUC since fall 2009. I work in Data Mining Research Group, and my advisor is Professor Jiawei Han.

I received my Bachelor of Engineering in 2009 from Tsinghua University, Beijing. 

My research interest has an emphasis in information network analysis and mining, especially in community and role discovery. My work helps the following applications.

1. Finding hierarchical topics and analyze entity roles, e.g. in news and in academia;
   

2. Finding hierarchical relations among entities, e.g. advisor-advisee;
   

3. Social influence analysis and influence Maximization;
   

4. Distinguishing relevant and unrelevant information sources, e.g., named entity disambiguation and relevance targeting.
   

 

Selected Publications

System Demos