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I am a Ph.D. Candidate at College of Information Sciences & Technology, the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. I am a member of The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. C. Lee Giles and Dr. Prasenjit Mitra. My research interests include document analysis and content analysis in digital libraries, search engine designing, data mining, information retrieval, reverse engineering, string matching algorithm improvement, semantic web, etc.

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College of Information Sci & Tech.
#329B, IST Building
University Park, PA 16802


Email:YLIU [at] IST [dot] PSU [dot] EDU

Selected Publications

Update on July 25, 2008

Ying Liu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, "Identifying Table Boundaries in Digital Documents via Sparse Line Detection," in CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California. (Accept rate=17%)

Ying Liu, Lucian Lita, Stefan Niculescu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, "Real-Time Data Pre-Processing Technique for Efficient Feature Extraction in Large Scale Dat," in ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, California. (Accept rate=17%)

Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, "TableRank: A Ranking Algorithm for Table Search and Retrieval," in AAAI 2007, Vancouver, Canada. (Accept rate = 26%)

Ying Liu, Lucian V. Lita, Radu Stefan Niculescu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, "Finding a Haystack in Haystacks - Simultaneous Identification of Concepts in Large Bio-Medical Corpora," in SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008, Atlanta, Georgia. (Accept rate=15%)

Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, "TableSeer: Automatic Table Metadata Extraction and Searching in Digital Libraries", ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Accept rate=26%)

Education

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Ph.D. Candidate, College of Information Sciences & Technology
Advisor: Dr. C. L. Giles, and Dr. Prasenjit Mitra

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
M.Sc., Department of Computer Science
Advisor: Dr. Eleni Stroulia

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China
M.S., Department of Computer Science

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China
B.S., Department of Computer Science

Professional Experiences & Activities

Research Intern           June -- August, 2008
Supervisor: Dr. Sreeram Ramakrishnan          IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Research Intern           June -- August, 2007
Supervisor: Dr. Lucian Lita, Dr. Stefan Niculescu          Siemens Medical Solutions, USA

Research Assistant           August 2005 -- present
Supervisor: Dr. C. Lee Giles, and Dr. Prasenjit Mitra,    IIS Research Laboratory, PSU, USA

Research Associate           Jan. -- April 2005
Supervisor: Dr. Hakan Erdogmus,    National Research Council (NRC), Canada

Research Assistant           Sept, 2001 -- July, 2004
Supervisor: Eleni Stroulia, AI/Software Engineering Group, University of Alberta, Canada

Reviewer:
ICDE 2008, CIKM (2007, 2008), AAAI 2006, WWW (2006, 2007)

IIS Lab @ PSU

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The IIS Lab directed by Dr. C. Lee Giles at Penn State is a leading research lab which aims to explore and support all levels of research that will improve and enhance our ability to generate, manage, search, and mine information and knowledge.

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