Jinyan Li, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
Tel: (65) 67906253 (office)
Office room: Academic North N4, #02a-30
Email: jyli@ntu.edu.sg

 

 

 

Academic Teaching

  • AY 2007-08: Introductory Bioinformatics, Database Systems (Tutorials and Labs), Data Mining (CE7405)
  • AY 2008-09: Introductory Bioinformatics, Database Systems (Tutorials and Labs), Data Mining (CI6227), Advanced Data Management Techniques (SC442, CPE403, CSC403).
  • AY 2009-10: Introductory Bioinformatics, Database Systems (Tutorials and Labs), Data Mining (CE7405).

Research Interests and Publications

  • Data mining, graph theory, emerging patterns, bioinformatics (protein binding site modeling, the O-ring theory, the Double Water Exclusion hypothesis, gene expression and proteomic profiling data analysis).
  • publications.

PhD Students and Research Staff

·       PhD students (graduated, on-going, and discontinued)

·       Research personnel

DataCutting Technologies---Computational Algorithms Invented by Jinyan and His Team

  • Mining of Discriminative Patterns: emerging patterns, contrast sets, odds ratio patterns, relative risk patterns, chi-squared patterns, etc.
  • Interaction and Graph Mining: hubs, cliques, bipartites.
  • Classification Methods: PCL, CS4, and DeEPs.
  • Tipping Patterns and Tipping Factors.
  • O-ring theory and double water exclusion hypothesis for binding hot spots (hotspots) at protein interfaces.

Winner of the Gold Award at the 2003 Asian Innovation Awards competition

  • Team members: Jinyan Li, Huiqing Liu, Limsoon Wong, and Allen Yeoh (NUH, Singapore).
  • Contribution: A single test platform for accurate prediction of outcome in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia by gene expression profiling.
  • Full story coverage available at Page 40-41, Issue November 6, 2003, Far Eastern Economic Review.

Kent Ridge Biomedical Data Set Repository

Current Professional Services

  • Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT).
  • Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB).
  • Co-guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Data Mining for Bioinformatics.November 2005.
  • Program Committee Member
    • PAKDD [2010; 2009, Bankok; 2008 (Vice Chair), Osaka; 2007 Area Chair, Nanjing; 2006, Singapore; 2005, Hanoi.]
    • SIGKDD [2010, Washington DC; 2009, Paris; 2008, Las Vegas; 2007, San Jose.]
    • DS [2007, Sendai; 2006, Barcelona; 2005, Singapore.]
    • WAIM [2009, Suzhou; 2008, Zhangjiajie; 2007, Huangshan; 2005, Hangzhou; 2003, Chengdu.]
    • ECML/PKDD [2008, Antwerp, Belgium; 2005, Porto.]
    • DASFAA [2008, New Delhi; 2007, Bangkok; 2006, Singapore.]
    • DaWak [2007, Regensburg; 2006, Krakow.]
    • ICDM [2007, Omaha NE, USA; 2006, Hong Kong; 2005, New Orleans.]
    • ICML [ 2006, Pittsburgh.]
    • SDM [2009; 2008, Atlanta.]
    • ACM SAC DM track [2010; 2009; 2008.]
    • APBC [2009, Beijing; 2008, Kyoto, Japan; 2007, Hong Kong; 2006, Taibei; 2005, Singapore.]
    • ICTAI [2006, Washington D.C.]
    • BIBE [2007, Boston]
    • BIBM [2009 (for CSB workshop); 2007 (PC member and Workshop Chair), San Jose]
    • PRICAI [ 2006, Guilin.]
    • CIDM [2007, Hawaii.]
    • SEAL [2008.]
    • AI [AI05, Sydney.]
    • CIKM [2010]
    • ACML [2009, 2010]
  • Publicity Co-chair of the Second International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2006), Xi'An, China, 14 - 16 Aug, 2006.
  • PC co-chair BioDM (Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications) [ 2007, Nanjing; 2006, Singapore.]

Education Background and Qualifications