Research Interests
Data mining, outlier analysis, moving object data, spatiotemporal data, data
warehousing.
Education
Employments
| July 2008-Present |
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Applied researcher, Microsoft,
Redmond, WA.
Develope new online/offline advertising algorithms for adCenter Labs.
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| May 2007-Aug 2007 |
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Summer intern, engineer, Google,
Mountain View, CA.
Developed algorithms to detect click spam in online advertising.
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| May 2006-May 2008 |
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Contract research programmer, Millennium Institute, Arlington, VA.
Sub-contractor for General Motors.
Developed algorithms and user interface to explore multi-dimensional
outliers in time series data for General Motors.
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| Aug 2005-May 2008 |
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Research assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Moving objects and outlier data mining research with Prof.
Jiawei Han in
conjunction with Boeing.
Development of Web 2.0 interface for relational data, DataScope.
Development of open-source data mining project IlliMine.
Available at illimine.cs.uiuc.edu.
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| May 2006-Aug 2006 |
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Summer intern, engineer, Google,
Mountain View, CA.
Developed algorithms to detect click spam in online advertising.
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| May 2005-Aug 2005 |
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Summer intern, research programmer, HRL
Laboratories, Malibu, CA.
Developed semantic relationship extractor in natural language and
conformant planner in evolving social networks.
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| May 2003-May 2005 |
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Research assistant, National Center
for Supercomputing Applications.
Developed data mining and information retrieval tools in D2K environment for Automated Learning Group.
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| Aug 2002-May 2003 |
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Teaching assistant, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
CS 431 - Embedded Systems.
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| 1996-2001 |
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Database & web programmer, summer intern, EnSite, Inc., Omaha, NE.
Developed software for forecasting gas prices and supply management.
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Self Employments
| Nov 1996-Present |
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Owner and operator of wickedland.com.
Music website featuring news and other information.
Reached over 10k daily uniques.
Sold in 2000 but regained ownership after parent company went
bankrupt.
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| June 2000-Present |
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Owner and operator of instrife.com.
Music website featuring news and other information.
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| Aug 2001-Sept 2002 |
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Owner and operator of Polytope Records.
Music record label for independent punk rock music.
Funded and released one record in December of 2001.
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Publications
See complete listing here.
Awards and Honors
Teaching
* Listed in the university's ``Incomplete List of
Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students'' under CS 331.
Professional Services
- Program committee member for:
- Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(2009)
- External reviewer for:
References
Available upon request.
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