ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><title>Yizhou Sun's Homepage</title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18876"> <meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="61.8%" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" title="Title" id="title"> <tr> <td> <h1 align="left">Yizhou Sun </h1> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="left" title="Navigation" id="navigation"> <tr> <td>[<a href="index.html" >Home</a>]</td> <td>[<a href="Research.htm" >Research</a>]</td> <td>[<a href="Publications.htm" >Publications</a>]</td> <td>[<a href="Tutorials.htm" >Tutorials</a>]</td> <td>[<a href="Teaching.htm" >Teaching</a>]</td> <td>[<a href="Services.html">Services</a>]</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="left"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="30%"> <img border="0" hspace="0" src="photos/7356.jpg" width=291 height=194, aligh="left"></td> <td width="10"></td> <td> <p align="left"><font size="5"><strong>Assistant Professor</strong></font></p> <p align="left"> <a href="http://www.ccs.neu.edu/">College of Computer and Information Science</a> <br> <a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/">Northeastern University</a> </p> <p align="left">360 Huntington Avenue,&nbsp;Boston, MA 02115<br><br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Office:</span>&nbsp; 476 West Village H<br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Email:</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;yzsun at ccs dot neu dot edu</p> </td></tr></tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr><td> <hr> <p style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><b>About Me</b></font></p> <p style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif"> I received my Ph.D.&nbsp;degree from <a href="http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/"> Computer Science Department</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/"> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)</a> 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 <a href="http://www.pku.edu.cn/"> Peking University</a>, China.</p> <p><font size="4"><strong>For Prospective Students</strong></font></p> <p> I am now looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students. </p> <p>Useful links: <a href = "http://www.ccs.neu.edu/graduate/degree-programs/ph-d-in-computer-science/admission-requirements/"> NEU Ph.D. admission and policy</a>, <a href = "http://www.ccs.neu.edu/graduate/apply/"> online application</a> </p> <p><font size="4" color = red><strong>What's New</strong></font></p> <ul> <li> <strong>Apr. 2013: </strong>We are orgnaizing Mining Data Semantics in Heterogeneous Information Networks Workshop (MDS'2013)&nbsp; in conjunction with SIGKDD2013:&nbsp; <a href="http://arnetminer.org/MDS2013"> http://arnetminer.org/MDS2013</a> (submission deadline: May 20th)</li> <li> <font color = black><strong>Jan. 2013:</strong></font> I start my new position as an assistant professor in Northeastern University. </li> <li> <strong>Dec. 2012:</strong> Paper "<em>ETM: Entity Topic Models for Mining Documents Associated with Entities" (ICDM'12) </em>is selected as one of the best papers in ICDM'12 and is invited to KAIS journal submission.</li> <li> <font color = black><strong>Dec. 2012:</strong></font> Paper "<i>PathSelClus: Integrating Meta-Path Selection with User-Guided Object Clustering in Heterogeneous Information Networks</i>" is accepted by ACM TKDD journal special issue.</li> </ul> <p style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif" class="content-item"><font size=4><b><a name="research_interests">Research Interests</a></b></font></p> <div class="wrapper"> <ul> <li> Large-Scale Information Network Analysis, Social Network, Link Analysis</li> <li>Graph Mining, Web Mining, Text Mining</li> <li> Data Mining, Database Systems, Statistics, Machine Learning,&nbsp;Information Retrieval, Network Science</li> <li><a href="Research.htm">More about my Research</a>&nbsp; </li></ul> <p><font size="4"><strong>Book</strong></font></p> <ul> <li> <i><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00433ED1V01Y201207DMK005">Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks: Principles and Methodologies</a></i>, by Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, Morgan &amp; Claypool Publishers, 2012.</li></ul> <p><font size="4"><strong>Publications</strong> </font>[<a href="Publications.htm">Full List</a>] [<a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sun:Yizhou.html">DBLP</a>] [<a href = "http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TQgOjK0AAAAJ">Google Scholar</a>]</p> <p><strong><font size="4">Selected Honors and Awards</font></strong></p> <ul> <li> <strong>Best Student Paper Award</strong>, 2012 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'12), 2012 </li> <li> <strong>Best Paper Award</strong>, Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'11), July 2011</li> <li> <strong>Data Mining Research Awards</strong>, Data Mining Group, UIUC, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2009, and Fall 2008</li> </ul> <p>[<a href="resources.html">Useful Links</a>]</p> <hr> <p align="left"><a id="clustrMapsLink" href="http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/sun22/"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" id=clustrMapsImg title="Locations of visitors to this page" alt="Locations of visitors to this page" onerror="this.onerror=null; this.src='http://clustrmaps.com/images/clustrmaps-back-soon.jpg'; document.getElementById('clustrMapsLink').href='http://clustrmaps.com';" src="http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/index2.php?url=http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/sun22/"></p> <p></a></p><a href="http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/zyin3/"></a> <p align="left">Last Modified: 4/2/2012 </p> <h1></h1></td></tr></tbody></table> <h1></h1></body></html>