Short Biography

Dr Tao Li is currently an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester in 2004. (My old homepage at Rochester).

My Research

Dr Tao Li's research explores two related topics on learning from data---how to efficiently discover useful patterns and how to effectively retrieve information. The interests lie broadly in data mining and machine learning studying both the algorithmic and application issues. The algorithmic aspects involve developing new scalable, efficient and interactive algorithms that can handle very large databases. The underlying techniques studied include clustering, classification, semi-supervised learning, similarity and temporal pattern discovery. The application issues focus on actual implementation and usage of the algorithms on a variety of real applications with different characteristics including bioinformatics, text mining, music information retrieval and event mining for computer system management.

Awards

• NSF Career Award, 2006-2011
• Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, Florida International University, 2008
• IBM Faculty Award, 2005 & 2007
• IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award, 2005
• Xerox University Affairs Committee (UAC) Award, 2005-2008
• Excellence in Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, 2005

Research Publications

KDD 2008 Workshop on Data Mining Using Matrices and Tensors (DMMT08)

My research group : Knowledge Discovery Research Group (KDRG)

Talk Slides for My China Trip in March 2008

LIBGS: A Matlab Software Package for Gene Selection developed at my group

NSF Career Project Homepage

Students Recruiting: I am currently looking for well motivated and dedicated graduate and undergraduate students interested in writing thesis, or doing supervised research or independent study with me.

Affiliated Research Groups: Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG)

Research Projects Supported by IBM 

Research Links

2006-2007 Friday Colloquium at SCS @ FIU

2006-2007 Data Mining Group Weekly Meeting (4:30pm to 6:00pm every Friday)

• Workshop Co-chair:  KDD 2008 Workshop on Data Mining Using Matrices and Tensors(DMMT08), Las Vegas, USA, August, 2008.
• Program Committee Member, The Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and  Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) (APWeb-WAIM 2009),  Suzhou, China, April, 2009.
• Program Committee Member,  The 22nd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-22), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, May 2009.
• Program Committee Member,  The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08), Sydney, Austria,  December, 2008.
• Program Committee Member, The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2008), Philadelphia, USA,  November, 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), Pisa, Italy, December 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  The 2nd CIKM workshop of Data and Text Mining Methods in Bioinformatics (DTMbio), Napa Valley, CA, October, 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  The 20th IEEE Int'l Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2008), Dayton, Ohio, USA, November 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  The Second ACM KDD International Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-08), Las Vegas, USA, August, 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  The Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'08), San Diego, California, USA, December, 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2008), Antwerp, Belgium, September 2008.
• Program Committee Member, The 31^st ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), Singapore, July 2008.
• Program Committee Member, The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2008), Las Vegas, USA, August, 2008.
• Publicity Co-Chair, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA08), Chengdu, P. R. China, July 2008. (Call For Papers)
• Program Committee Member, The 21st International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-21),  Coconut Grove, Florida, May 2008.
• Program Committee Member, The 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008 (SDM 2008), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2008.
• Program Committee Member, The 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  The 5 ^th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08), Jinan, China, October, 2008.
• Program Committee Member, The 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2008), San Francisco Bay, USA, July, 2008.
• Program Committee Member,  2008 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC2008), Hangzhou , China, Aug 26-28, 2008
• Program Committee Member, The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC 2007), Silicon Valley, USA, Nov. 2007
• Program Committee Member, The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007), Silicon Valley, USA,  2007
• Program Committee Member, The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-07), Silicon Valley, USA,  2007
• Program Committee Member, The 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), PATARS, 2007
• Program Committee Member, The Second International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (TDMBio) in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2007
• Program Committee Member, Mining and Management of Biological Data (MMBD) in conjunction with IEEE ICDM 2007.
• Program Committee Member, KDD 2007 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources in conjunction with SIGKDD 2007.
• Program Committee Member, The Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007), San Jose, California, August 12-15, 2007.
• Program Committee Member, The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07), Boston, USA, July 9-11, 2007.
• Program Committee Member, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007), Jacksonville, Florida, USA   June 11-15, 2007
• Program Committee Member, The 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2007 (SDM 2007), Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2007.
• Program Committee Member, The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), Nanjing, China, May 2007
• Program Committee Member, Workshop on Text Data Mining and Management (TDMM) In conjunction with 23rd IEEE ICDE Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007.
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining MLDM´2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 2007.
• Program Committee Member, The 20th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-20), Key West, Florida, May 2007.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.
• Conference Chair, The Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'06), Orlando, USA, Dec 2006 (Call for Papers)
• Workshop Co-Chair, KDD 2006 Workshop on Theory and Practice of Temporal Data Mining, Philadelphia, USA, August, 2006 (Call for Papers)
• Program Committee Member, The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, Dec 2006
• Program Committee Member, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2006), Washington D.C., Nov 2006
• Program Committee Member, The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-06), Hong Kong, Dec 2006
• Program Committee Member, The Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2006),Philadelphia, USA, August, 2006
• Program Committee Member, The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC 2006), Atlanta, USA, May 2006
• Program Committee Member, The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 2006
• Program Committee Member, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2006 (SDM 2006), Bethesda, Maryland, April 2006
• Program Committee Member, The 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006), Singapore, April 2006
• Program Committee Member, The First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE), Hong Kong,  May 2006
• Guest Co-editor: A Special Issue on Temporal Data Mining with DMKD(Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) Journal, (Call for Papers)
• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2005 Workshop on Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2005
• Program Committee Member, The 44th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2006), Melbourne, Florida, USA, March 2006
• Program Committee Member, The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005), Compiegne, France, September 2005
• Program Committee Member, The 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 2006.
• Program Committee Member, The Fourteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005), Bremen, Germany, November 2005
• Program Committee Member, The Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004), Washington D.C., USA, November 2004
• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2004 Workshop on Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications, Brighton, UK, November 2004
• Journal Referee
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
  • Data and Knowledge Engineering
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Information Systems
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Machine Learning Journal
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • VLDB Journal

• CAP 5610  Introduction to Machine Learning [Spring 2008]
• CAP4770 Introduction to Data Mining [Fall 2007]
• COP 5577 Principles of Data Mining [Fall 2007]
• CAP 6778 Advanced Data Mining [Spring 2007]
• COP 4540 Database Management [Spring 2007]
• CIS 6933 Computer Science Seminar [Spring 2007]
• 2006-2007 Friday Colloquium at SCS @ FIU
• COT 5407 Introduction to Algorithms [Fall 2006]
• COP 3530 Data Structure [Fall 2006]
• COP 3530 Data Structure [Spring 2006]
• COP 4540 Database Management [Spring 2006]
• COP 5577 Principles of Data Mining [Fall 2005]
• COP 5992 Principles of Data Mining [Fall 2004]
  
• COP 4540 Database Management [Spring 2005]

Ph.D. Students (graduated and current)

• David Kaiser (Ph.D., defended in Nov., 2007)

  • Director of Institutional Research, Miami-Dade College

• Wei Peng (Ph.D. defended in March, 2008)

  • Research scientist,  Xerox Research
  • FIU Presidential Fellowship 2003-2005
  • The Best Graduate Student Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2006)
  • Excellence Award, School of Computer Science, 2006-07.
  • Summer Intern at Xerox Research, 2006
  • Summer Intern at Xerox Research, 2007
  • Outstanding PhD Graduate, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University (2008)

• Bo Shao (Fall 2005 - Current)

  • Summer Intern at IBM Almaden Research Center, 2006
  • Summer Intern at IBM Autonomic Computing, 2007

• Dingding Wang (Fall 2006 -- Current)

  • Summer Intern at NEC Research, 2007
  • Summer Intern at NEC Research, 2008

• Yi Zhang  (Fall 2007 -- Current)

Visiting Ph.D. Students

• Fei Wang (June 2007 - July 2007)


• Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, P. R. China
  
  
• Zhongyuan Zhang (November 2007 - December 2007)


•  Institute of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

Useful Links

• Merriam-Webster Online
• Final Exam Schedule
• NSF Fastlane
• FIU Library
• FIU Calendar
• FIU Course Catalogs
• PantherSoft
• Faculty Page
• New Wisdom Net
• QEM Network