Yizhou Sun

Assistant Professor

College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University

360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

Office:  476 West Village H
Email:  yzsun at ccs dot neu dot edu

About Me

I received my Ph.D. degree from Computer Science Department,  University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in December 2012. I got my M.S. degree in Signal and Information Processing in July 2007, and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and in Statistics in June 2004 from Peking University, China.

For Prospective Students

I am now looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students.

Useful links: NEU Ph.D. admission and policy, online application

What's New

  • Apr. 2013: We are orgnaizing Mining Data Semantics in Heterogeneous Information Networks Workshop (MDS'2013)  in conjunction with SIGKDD2013:  http://arnetminer.org/MDS2013 (submission deadline: May 20th); and Workshop on Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis (HINA'13) in conjuction with IJCAI2013: http://www.kddresearch.org/Workshops/HINA-2013/ (submission deadline: May 14th).
  • Jan. 2013: I start my new position as an assistant professor in Northeastern University.
  • Dec. 2012: Paper "ETM: Entity Topic Models for Mining Documents Associated with Entities" (ICDM'12) is selected as one of the best papers in ICDM'12 and is invited to KAIS journal submission.
  • Dec. 2012: Paper "PathSelClus: Integrating Meta-Path Selection with User-Guided Object Clustering in Heterogeneous Information Networks" is accepted by ACM TKDD journal special issue.

Research Interests

  • Large-Scale Information Network Analysis, Social Network, Link Analysis
  • Graph Mining, Web Mining, Text Mining
  • Data Mining, Database Systems, Statistics, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Network Science
  • More about my Research 

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Selected Honors and Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award, 2012 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'12), 2012
  • Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'11), July 2011
  • Data Mining Research Awards, Data Mining Group, UIUC, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2009, and Fall 2008

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