Database and Information Systems Research Laboratory
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

I am a Ph.D. student in the CS department at UIUC. My advisors are Professor Chengxiang Zhai and Professor Saurabh Sinha. My primary research interests include Bioinformatics, Text Information Management and Data Mining. I also work closely with Professor Bruce Schatz and Professor Gene Robinson.

Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz. Generating gene summaries from biomedical literature: A study of semi-structured summarization. Information Processing and Management (IPM) 43, 2007, 1777-1791.

Qiaozhu Mei, Xu Ling, Matthew Wondra, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zhai. Topic sentiment mixture: modeling facets and opinions in weblogs. WWW 2007: 171-180. [ppt]

Xu Ling, Jing Jiang, Xin He, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce Schatz. Automatically Generating Gene Summaries from Biomedical Literature. Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2006 (PSB 06), pages 41-50. [ppt]

Saurabh Sinha, Xu Ling, Charles W. Whitfield, ChengXiang Zhai, and Gene E. Robinson, Genome scan for cis-regulatory DNA motifs associated with social behavior in honey bees, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) , 103(44), Oct. 2006, pages 16352-16357. [ppt]

Y. Wang, M. Jorda, PL. Jones, R. Maleszka, X. Ling, HM. Robertson, CA. Mizzen, MA. Peinado, GE. Robinson, Functional CpG methylation system in a social insect. Science, 2006 Oct 27;314(5799):578-9.

Verizon Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2006