Biography
Wei Ding received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2008. She is a Professor of Computer Science in the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research interests include data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational semantics, and with applications to health sciences, astronomy, geosciences, and environmental sciences. She has published more than 130 referred research papers, one book, and has three patents. She is an Associate Editor of the ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), and the Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). She served as an editorial board member of the Journal of Information System Education (JISE), the Journal of Big Data, and the Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal. She is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), the Best Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI), the Best Poster Presentation award at the 2008 ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPAITAL GIS). She received the 2019 WISAY Distinguished Woman in Science Award from the Yale University, 2018 Outstanding Alumni Award and the Best PhD Work Award between 2007 and 2010 from the University of Houston. Her research projects have been sponsored by NSF, NIH, NASA, and DOE. She is an IEEE senior member and an ACM senior member.
PhD Students
Matthew D Almeida
Machine Learning, Time-Series Modeling, and Domain Generalization
Electric Guitar
KDLab Member since 2016
Yong Zhuang
Machine Learning and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
Loves Badminton
KDLab Member since 2015
Tianyu Kang
Machine Learning
Loves Badminton
KDLab Member since 2015
Zihan Li
Machine Learning
Loves Badminton
KDLab Member since 2015
Chengjie Zheng
Machine Learning
Loves Badminton
KDLab Member since 2015
Former PhD Students
Dr. Joseph Cohen
Postdoctoral Fellowi advised by Prof. Yoshua Bengio
Univeristy of Montreal
PhD, 2016, UMass Boston
Dr. Yahui Di
Data Scientist
Monsanto/Climate Crop
PhD, 2017, UMass Boston
Dr. Henry Lo
Consultant
McKinsey & Company
PhD, 2016, UMass Boston
Dr. Yang Mu
Research Scientist
Facebook
PhD, 2015, UMass Boston
Dr. Dawei Wang
Manager, Applied Science
Amobee
PhD, 2016, UMass Boston
Dr. Chung-Hsien (Jacky) Yu
Machine Learning Engineer
PlayStation
PhD, 2016, UMass Boston
Former Visiting Scholars, Master Students, and Undergraduate Students
Vikram Venaktesh Gopalan 2018-2019, UMass Boston
Dr. Jipeng Qiang Soochow University, China, Visiting Scholar, 2015-2016, UMass Boston
Tingting Lu, Beihang University, Visiting Scholar, 2015-2016, UMass Boston
Ira Ceka, PhD student, Columbia University, 2022; Undergraduate Student, 2016-2019, UMass Boston
Daniel Manning Software Developer, IBM, 2016, UMass Boston
Melissa Cruz, PhD Student, Tufts University, Undergraduate Student, 2015, UMass Boston
Nicole Cote Developer, Cervello, Undergraduate Student, 2013, UMass Boston
Alena Bertash, Business Intelligence Consultant, TriCore Solutions, Undergraduate Student, 2012, UMass Boston
Timmy Mbaya Undergraduate Student, 2011, UMass Boston
Veronica Carrillo Marquez, Co-Founder, F1V, Undergraduate Student, 2009, UMass Boston
Dr. Kui Yu, University of South Australia, Visiting Scholar, 2011-2012, UMass Boston
Kevin Amaral PhD Student, UMass Boston, Undergraduate Student, 2012-2013, UMass Boston
Caitlin Kuhlman, PhD Student, WPI, Undergraduate Student, 2013-2014, UMass Boston
Vy Nguyen Software Engineer, Google, Undergraduate Student, 2013, UMass Boston
Anna Gavrilman, Software Engineer, Undergraduate Student, 2013-2014, UMass Boston
Dr. Yin Li Associate Professor, Northwest A&F University, China, Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014, UMass Boston
Dr. Ren Xiang, Importing Analyst, Evergreen Enterprises, Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014, UMass Boston
Dr. Xu Yuan Associate Professor, School of Software Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014, UMass Boston
Dr. Pei Yang, Lecturer, Nanjing University, China, Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014, UMass Boston
Dr. Min Yang Associate Professor, Wuhan University, China, Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014, UMass Boston
Dr. Ana Gonzalez Marcos, Associate Professor, University of La Rioja, Spain, Visiting Scholar, 2012, UMass Boston
Siyi Liu Senior Software Engineer, PayPal, Master's Student, 2011, UMass Boston
Pradnya Khutafale, Software Engineer, PatientKeeper, Master's Student, 2011, UMass Boston
Max Choly Software Engineer, VMware, Undergraduate Student, 2010, UMass Boston
William Isaac Miller, PhD Student, In Memoriam, 1985 - 2010, Miller's page
Jue Wang Lead Quality Engineer, Cvent, Master's Student, 2010, UMass Boston
Kartik Panjabi, Vice President, Goldman Sachs, Master's Student, 2010, UMass Boston
Anshul Jain Master's Student, 2010, UMass Boston
Susan Ngai Master's Student, 2010, UMass Boston
Joshua A. Reyes Software Engineer, KAYAK, Master's Student, 2009, UMass Boston