My research interests lie in large scale data management, especially search
and mining upon the ultimate data repository, the World Wide Web. I am particularly
interested in \textbf{Entity Search}, beyond traditional web search of retrieving
documents. I enjoy the process of building novel, useful, realistic search
systems, identifying and solving real research problems that emerge in the
process. My research interests touch upon computer science disciplines such
as information retrieval, data mining, databases, machine learning, natural
language processing, distributed system.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
08/2004 - Now.
Advisor: Professor Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, University of California, Santa
Barbara, 09/2003 - 06/2004.
B.S., Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China,
July 2003.
Graduated with honor from the Mixed Class of the Chu KeChen College
AWARDS AND HONORS
Yahoo Key Technical Challenge Award, 2007 (one out of twelve selected nation
wide)
Conference of Innovative Database System Research (CIDR) Scholarship, 2007.
Excellent TA Award, Department of Computer Science, UCSB, 2004.
Superior Graduate Honor Certificate, ZJU, 2003.
Outstanding Graduation Thesis, ZJU, 2003.
Third Prize in the National Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Zhejiang, 2001.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Entity Search Research Assistant, Database and Information Systems Lab, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2004-present
Advisor: Professor Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang WISDM project: http://eagle.cs.uiuc.edu/wisdm
Aiming at proposing and building a novel Web Search Engine beyond document
retrieval, that searches upon Entities, for instance, email, phone number,
address, etc.
Clustering and Classifying XML Documents Research Intern, Knowledge and Database Systems Lab, National Technical
University of Athens, 2002
Mentor and Advisor: Dr. Theodore Dalamagas and Prof. Timos Sellis
Worked on clustering and classifying XML documents. The work resulted to (a)
the design and implementation of an XML management system and (b) the publication
of several research papers.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Teaching Assistant for CS101(Introduction to Computing), CS411(Database
Systems), 2004 - 2007
Designed questions and solutions for homeworks and exams, graded homeworks
and exams, mentored course projects, hold office hours, and gave several lectures.
University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Lectured lab sessions, helped students with projects, hold office hours, assisted
in preparing exams, graded exams.
T. Dalamagas, T. Cheng, K. J. Winkel and T. Sellis. "Clustering XML
documents using structural summaries". In the Proceedings of the EDBT Workshop
on Clustering Information over the Web (ClustWeb 2004), Heraklion, Greece,
2004.
PAPERS IN SUBMISSION
TECHNICAL REPORT
J. M. Kelley, K. C.--C. Chang, T.Cheng , S. Chuang, W. Davis. "Weaving
Entities into Relations: From Page Retrieval to Relation Mining on the Web".
Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2004-2521 (Engr. No. UILU-ENG-2004-1810), November,
2004. [PDF]