Dr. Wei Ding Wei's name in Chinese Chinese pronounciation
Assistant Professor
Director of the KDLab
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. She is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

Professional Activities

  • Program Committee Member: ACM KDD (2010), SIAM SDM (2010), ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS (2009), International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2008), International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining In Cooperation with IEEE ICDM (SSTDM, 2008, 2009), International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (2008, 2009), International Symposium on Data, Privacy, and E-Commerce (2010), International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (2010), International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (2010)
  • PC Co-Chair: Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (2009)
  • Session Chair: IEEE International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining in cooperation with IEEE ICDM (2007), special session on data mining of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (2009)
Events

  • 11/16/2009, hosted Dr. Xindong Wu's seminar "Error-Tolerant Data Mining" at UMass Boston.
  • 11/09/2009, invited talk at the University of Houston (Host: Dr. Ricardo Vilalta)
  • 10/14/2009-10/16/2009, attended and presented at the NASA AISR PI Meeting and CIDU conference on Intelligent Data Understanding
  • 10/01/2009, invited talk at WPI (Host: Dr. Wenjing Lou)
  • 09/30/2009, hosted the first meeting of Women in Science (Co-Host Dr. Nurit Haspel and Dr. Betty O'Neil)
  • 09/24/2009, hosted Dr. Kevin Knight's seminar "Automatic Translation of Human Languages" at UMass Boston.
  • 09/14/2009, invited talk at the University of Vermont (Host: Dr. Xindong Wu)
  • 09/11/2009, presented at the Teaching with Technology at UMass Boston (Host: Dr. Eleanor Kutz)
  • 07/13/2009-07/17/2009, attended IJCAI-09, Pasadena, CA
  • 07/13/2009, visited the Info Lab at USC (Host: Dr. Cyrus Shahabi)
  • 07/11/2009-07/12/2009, attended the CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop, Pasadena, CA
  • 06/15/2009-08/26/2009, Visiting Scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (Host: Dr. Tom Stepinski)
  • Past events ...
Prospective Students

I am always interested in working with bright and motivated students, so feel free to contact me if you are interested in fun and rewarding research on Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Financial support is available for qualified Ph.D. students.