Wei Ding's Homepage at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Dr. Wei Ding
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Science and Mathematics
University of Massachusetts Boston

100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393

Office: S-3-75 Science Building
Phone: (617) 287-6428
Fax: (617) 287-6433
Email: ding@cs.umb.edu

"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."
- Confucius

Wei's main research interests include Data Mining, Computational Semantics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and with applications to astronomy, geosciences, and environmental sciences.

Biosketch

Wei Ding received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas in May 2008, then joined the Department of Computer Science of UMass Boston as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2008. Wei received her BS degree in Computer Science and Applications from Xi'an Jiao Tong University in 1993 and her MS degree in Software Engineering from George Mason University in 2000 (find her at the Software Engineering Academic Genealogy).

From 2002 to 2008, Wei had been a full-time lecturer of the Computer Science and Computer Information Systems programs at the University of Houston - Clear Lake (UHCL) (visit her homepage at UHCL). Wei has 8-year full-time working experience in banking, software development, and web technology. From 1993 to 2001, Wei worked as a software engineer for the Bank of China, a software testing engineer for Microsoft (China) Ltd., a systems analyst and project manager for PanSky International Holding Co. Ltd, a quality assurance team leader for MultiCity.com, and a technical consultant and software engineer for VeriSign Inc. Wei is serving as a PC Co-Chair of the Workshop on Social Networks, Appications, and Systems, a Co-Chair of a special session on data mining of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2009), a program committee member for the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2009) and the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering. She served as a program committee member for the 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2008), International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM 2008), the 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, and she also served as a session chair for the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining in cooperation with IEEE ICDM. She is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

Events

• 5/21/2009-6/5/2009, attended and presented the paper “A Fully Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Method and Its Evaluation on Coarse-grained All-words Task” at Human language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2009), University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
• 04/30/2009-05/02/2009, presented a paper on "Discovery of Geospatial Discriminating Patterns from Remote Sensing Datasets" at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Sparks, Nevada
• 04/23/2009, invited talk at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (hosted by Dr. Guanling Chen and Dr. Fred Martin)
• 04/20/2009, submission due, Call for Papers for the Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS'09).
• 04/04/2009 - 04/05/2009, attended an NSF-Sponsored CDC Academic Career Workshop, Portland, Oregon
• 03/27/2009, selected for funding, $285,163 for 3 years, "Automatic Detection of Sub-Kilometer Craters in High Resolution Planetary Images," NASA Applied Information Systems Research (AISR) element of the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science, PI: Dr. Tom Stepinski, Co-PI: Dr. Wei Ding (subcontracts $117,383)
• 03/13/2009, two internal grants awarded, UMass Boston Proposal Development Grant and Joseph P. Healey Grant.
• 03/05/2009, invited talk at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (hosted by Dr. Sharon Hall)
• Call for Papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2009), June 15-17, 2009, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Call for papers on special session on "Data Mining"
• 01/28/2009, invited talk at George Mason University (hosted by Dr. Jeff Offutt and Dr. Paul Ammann)
• 01/08/2009 - 01/09/2009, attended an NSF workshop on GeoSpatial & GeoTemporal Informatics
• Past events ...