Lab Director
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Full Professor and 91亚色 Research Chair
Research Interests: information retrieval, big data, medical/health informatics, text/Web mining, natural language processing, bioinformatics and computational linguistics.
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Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Professor
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Dr. Mariam Daoud
Ph.D. in Information Retrieval from IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France.
Research Interests: contextual information retrieval and personalization,
user profiling and semantic data mining.
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Ph.D. in Computer Science
Research Interests: data mining, information retrieval, sentiment mining, health informatics, text mining, statistical modeling.
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Ph.D. in Multimedia Information Retrieval
Research Interests: Multimedia information retrieval, medical image retrieval.
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Ph.D. in Information Retrieval
Research Interests: statistical models and machine learning for information retrieval, cross-language retrieval and Web mining.
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Graduate Students
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Ph.D., 3rd Year
Research Interests: text mining, biomedical information retrieval and
context-sensitive information retrieval.
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Ph.D., 3rd Year
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Ph.D., 3rd Year
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Ph.D., 2nd Year
Research Interests: statistical models and machine learning for information retrieval,
biomedical text retrieval and mining, decision support for personalized health care.
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Jun Miao
Ph.D., 2nd Year
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Parvaz Mahdabi
Visiting Ph.D. from University of Lugano, Switzerland.
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Jiayue Zhang
Visiting Ph.D. supported by CSC scholarship from China.
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Reinaldo Canovas Denis
Visiting Ph.D. supported by Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Scholarship from Cuba.
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Maral Dadvar
Visiting Ph.D. from University of Twente, Netherlands.
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Master
Research Interests: Web intelligence, Web search, information retrieval and
Web/data mining.
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Xiaoli Hu
Master
Research Interests: information retrieval, data mining, information
and database management systems.
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Ahmed Al-Sinan
Master
Research Interests: business intelligence, data mining and data warehousing.
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Robert Saggiorato
Master
Research Interests: health informatics, health data mining, clinical decision support systems & EHR's, healthcare knowledge management/information retrieval, healthcare leadership strategies.
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Atanaz Babashzadeh
Master
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Zahra Amin Nayeri
Master
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Hoda Forghani
Master
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Undergraduate Honors Students
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Tony Lau
B.A., Spec. Hons. in Information Technology
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Tom Wu
B.A., Spec. Hons. in Information Technology
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Zhi Xu
B.A., Spec. Hons. in Information Technology
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Alumni
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Dr. Chenghua Li
Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering.
Research Interests: data mining, machine learning, information retrieval,
pattern recognition and parallel computing.
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(Postdoctoral Fellow at 91亚色, July 2009 - July 2010)
Ph.D. in Information Retrieval from University of Glasgow, U.K.
Research Interests: formal models in information retrieval, text mining,
blog retrieval, query performance prediction, and relevance feedback.
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(Postdoctoral Fellow at 91亚色, October 2009 - July 2010)
Ph.D. in Information Retrieval from University of Waterloo, Canada
Research Interests: information retrieval, question answering,
and spam filtering.
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MSc, 2009, TD Bank in Toronto
Thesis Title: Applying Text Mining to Multi-Level Indexing and Searching for
Enhancing Probabilistic Information Retrieval
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MSc, 2009, Ph.D. student at 91亚色
Thesis Title: Passage Extraction and Result Combination for High Performance Biomedical
Information Retrieval
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MSc, 2009, IBM in Toronto
Thesis Title: Using Sentiment Term Combination and Proximity Functions to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval Models in Blog Space
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PhD, 2009, Postdoctoral Fellow at 91亚色
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Review Mining from Online Media
MSc Thesis Title: Markov Model-Based Methods for Web User Clustering and Surfing Recommendation
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MSc, 2007, Atlanta in USA
Thesis Title: Concept-Based Biomedical Text Retrieval
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MSc, 2006, Saint Louis, USA
Thesis Title: Using Contextual Information and Machine Learning Technique to Improve Retrieval Performance
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Alice Tran
B.A., Hons. in Information Technology, Specialized in Technology and Society
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