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EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Management August 2007
Major: Management Information Systems
Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Minor: Information Resources and Library Science
Dissertation: Feature Construction, Selection and Consolidation for Knowledge Discovery  

Master of Science (Management) July 2002
School of Economics and Management , Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China

 Bachelor of Engineering (Management Information Systems) July 2000
School of Economics and Management , Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor 2007~present
College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Research Associate 2002~2007
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Management Information Systems,
Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Graduate Research Assistant 2000~2002
Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China

Webmaster and System Administrator 1999~2001
China Business Administration Case Services Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Text Mining and Web Mining
• Business Process Mining
• Knowledge management

 JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• J. Li, Z. Zhang, X. Li, H. Chen, "Kernel-based Learning for Biomedical Relation Extraction," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 59(5), 756-769, (2008).
• J. Xu, G. Wang, J. Li, M. Chau, "Complex Problem Solving: A Case Study on Identity Matching Based on Social Contextual Information," Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) Special Issue Enid Mumford’s Contribution to Information Systems Theory and Theoretical Thinking, 8(10), Article 31, October, (2007).
• J. Li , H. Su, H. Chen, B. W. Futscher, "Optimal Search-Based Gene Subset Selection for Gene Array Cancer Classification," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 11(4), 398-405, (2007).
• Z. Huang, J. Li, H. Su, G. S. Watts, H. Chen, "Large-scale Regulatory Network Analysis From Microarray Data: Modified Bayesian Network Learning and Association Rule Mining," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 43, 1207-1225, (2007).
• J. Li , X. Li, H. Su, H. Chen, D.W. Galbraith, "A Framework of Integrating Gene Functional Relations from Heterogeneous Data Sources: An Experiment on Arabidopsis thaliana," Bioinformatics, 22(16), 2037-2043, (2006).
• J. Li , R. Zheng, H. Chen, "From Fingerprint to Writeprint," Communications of the ACM, 49(4), 76-82, (2006).
• R. Zheng, J. Li, H. Chen, Z. Huang, Y. Qin, "A Framework of Authorship Identification for Online Messages: Writing Style Features and Classification Techniques," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57(3), 378-393, (2006).

 JOURNAL PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

• X. Li, H. Chen, Z. Zhang, J. Li, "Managing Knowledge in Light of its Evolution Process: An Empirical Study on Citation Network Based Patent Classification," under review at Management Science.

 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• J. Li , H. J. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. L. Zhao, "Mining Business Policy Texts for Discovering Process Models: A Framework and Some Initial Results," the sixth Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2007 (Best Paper Award Nominee).
• X. Li, Z. Zhang, H. Chen, J. Li, "Graph Kernel-based Learning for Gene Function Prediction from Gene Interaction Network," IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Fremont, California, November 2-4, 2007.
• X. Li, H. Chen, Z. Zhang, J. Li, "Auto Patent Classification Using Citation Network Information: An Experimental Study in Nanotechnology," ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2007.
• J. Li , G. Wang, H. Chen, "Identity Matching Based on Probabilistic Relational Models," the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS’06), Acapulco, México, August 4-6, 2006.
• J. Li , H. Hua, H. Chen, "Optimal Search-based Gene Selection for Cancer Diagnosis," the Eleventh Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS’05), Omaha, Nebraska, August 11-14, 2005.
• G. Leroy, H. Chen, J. Martinez, S. Eggers, R. Falsey, K. Kislin, Z. Huang, J. Li, J. Xu, D. McDonald, and G. Ng. "Genescene: Biomedical Text and Data Mining," the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Houston, Texas, May 27-31, 2003.
• G. Chen, J. Li, P. Yan, E. E. Kerre, "Discovering Association Rules with Degrees of Support and Implication (ARsi)," Computational Intelligent Systems for Applied Research, Proceedings of the Fifth International FLINS Conference, Gent, Belgium, September 16-18, 2002.
• J. Li , G. Chen, "A SAR-Based Interesting Rule Mining Algorithm," The Joint Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society and the Special Interest Group on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (NAFIPS-FLINT 2002), New Orleans, USA, June 27-29, 2002.
• G. Chen, D. Liu, J. Li, "Influence and Conditional Influence - New Interestingness Measures in Association Rule Mining," the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2001), Melbourne, Australia, December 2-5, 2001.

INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• J. Li , H. Chen, "Data Mining in Medical Informatics," College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, October 19, 2006.
• J. Li , H. Su, H. Chen, "Identification of Marker Genes for Microarray-based Cancer Classification," Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology , University of Arizona, September 27, 2006.
• J. Li , X. Li, H. Su, H. Chen, "A Bayesian Framework of Integrating Gene Functional Relations from Heterogeneous Data Sources," 2006 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Spring Congress, Phoenix, Arizona, May 16-18, 2006.
• J. Li , H. Su, H. Chen, B. Futscher, "Optimal Search-Based Gene Subset Selection for Microarray Cancer Classification," 2006 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Spring Congress, Phoenix, Arizona, May 16-18, 2006.
• J. Li , H. Su, H. Chen, "Feature Selection for Microarray-based Cancer Classification," Department of Management Science and Technology , School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China, December 19, 2005.
• R. Zheng, J. Li, H. Chen, "Authorship Analysis of Online Messages for Cybercrime Investigation," NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI'03), Tucson, Arizona, June 2003.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• J. Li , H. Su, H. Chen, “Identification of Marker Genes from High-dimensional Microarray Data for Cancer Classification,” in Y. Pan and X. Hu (Eds.), “ Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics: Techniques, Methods and Applications,” Wiley Series on Bioinformatics: Computational Techniques and Engineering, ISBN 047177796X, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Research Associate AI Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona

• National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Library of Medicine (NLM), “Genescene: A Toolkit for Gene Pathway Analysis,” May 2002~May 2006 (1 R33 LM07299-01; PI: Chen).
• National Science Foundation (NSF)/Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), “Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination ARJIS/COPLINK ‘Border Safe’ Research and Testbed,” September 2003~August 2005 (EIA-9983304; PI: Chen)
• National Science Foundation (NSF), “COPLINK Center for Excellence: Information and Knowledge Management in Law Enforcement,” September 2000~August 2003 (EIA-9983304; PI: Chen)
• National Science Foundation (NSF), Digital Government Program, “COPLINK Center: Social Network Analysis and Identity Deception Detection for Law Enforcement and Homeland Security,” 2004~2006, (#0429364; PI: Chen)

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Database Management
• Data Mining and Text Mining
• Data Structure and Algorithms
• Research Statistics and Quantitative Methods

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University

Assistant Professor
Winter 2008, INFO 605, Database Management I (Master course)
Fall 2007, INFO 605, Database Management I (Master course)

Department of MIS, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

Instructor
Summer 2006, MIS 373, Basic Operations Management (Undergraduate Course)
Summer 2005, MIS 304, Using and Managing Information Systems (Undergraduate Course)

School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Teaching Assistant
Fall 2001, Data, Models and Decisions (MBA Course)
Fall 2001, Data Structure (Undergraduate Course)  

SPECIAL AWARDS AND HONORS

• Graduate Research Assistantship , National Science Foundation (2002 ~ 2007)
• Graduate In-state Tuition Scholarship , University of Arizona (2004 ~ 2007)
• Graduate Assistantship , University of Arizona (2002 ~ 2007)
• Graduate Tuition Waiver , University of Arizona (2002 ~ 2007)
• Tsinghua University Scholarship , Tsinghua University (1996 ~ 2002)

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2007
• Member of the Association for Information Systems since 2005
• Conference Chair
  • Session Chair, IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2007 ( Silicon Valley, CA)
• Member of Program Committee
  • IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2007 ( Silicon Valley, CA)
• Reviewer of Journals
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Decision Support Systems
• Reviewer of Conferences
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
  • ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
  • IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (ISI)
  • Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS)
  • Workshop on e-Business (WeB)
  • IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
  • China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM)
  • Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)
  • Workshop on the Sciences of the Artificial (WSA)
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
  • DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (NEDL)