Yong Ge Ph.D. Student Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick Email:  yongge@pegasus.rutgers.edu Phone: (1)-973-353-1771

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Management Science and Information System at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey under the advisory of Prof. Hui Xiong. [CV]

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Research Interests

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Spatio-temporal Data Analysis
• Recommender Systems

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Education

• Ph.D.,Management Science and Information System , Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick , Sep. 2008 - Present
• M.S., Signal and Information Processing, University of Science and Technology of China - Hefei, China, 2008
• B.S., Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiao Tong University - Xi'an, China, 2005

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Honors

• 2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper
• NSF Student Travel Award, IEEE ICDM 2011
• Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, 2011, IJCNN and ICML
• Student Travel Award, ACM SIGKDD, 2009,2010,2011
• Summer Scholarship, Rutgers Business School, 2010
• Dean's Fund, Rutgers Business School, 2009
• Spaceflight Information Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2007

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Teaching Experiences

• Instructor, Rutgers Business School, NJ, Spring 2011, Fall 2011
• Teaching Assistant, Rutgers Business School, NJ, Sep 2008 - May 2010

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Research Experiences

• Research Assistant, Rutgers Business School, NJ, Sep 2008 - Present
• Research Intern, NEC Labs, NJ,Summer 2011
• Research Intern, Panasonic System Solutions Development Center, NJ,Summer 2009
• Research Assistant, University of Science and Technology of China - Hefei, China (Sep 2005 - May 2008)

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Selected Publications

Journal Papers

• Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Wenjun Zhou, Siming Li and Ramendra Sahoo, Multi-focal Learning for Customer Problem Analysis , ACM Transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 3, April 2011.

• Xiaojun Quan, Hui Xiong, Wenyu Dou, Liu Wenyin, Yong Ge, Link Graph Analysis for Business Site Selection, IEEE Computer, accepted,2011.

Conference Papers

• Chuanren Liu, Tianming Hu, Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Which Distance Metric is Right: An Evolutionary K-Means View, the 2012 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, (SDM 2012), 2011 to appear.

• Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Chuanren Liu, Zhi-Hua Zhou, A Taxi Driving Fraud Detection System, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, (ICDM 2011), 2011 pp. 181-190.

• Qi Liu Yong Ge, Zhongmou Li, Enhong Chen, Hui Xiong, Personalized Travel Package Recommendation, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining,(ICDM 2011), 2011 pp.407-416. (Best Research Paper Award)

• Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Alexander Tuzhilin, Qi Liu, Collaborative Filtering with Collective Training, the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (short paper), Chicago, US, Octorber, (RecSys 2011), 2011 pp.281-284.

• Yong Ge, Qi Liu, Hui Xiong, Alexander Tuzhilin, Cost-aware Travel Tour Recommendation, the 17th ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2011), to appear,2011.

• Yong Ge, Chuanren Liu, Hui Xiong, A Taxi Business Intelligence System, the 17th ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2011), to appear,2011. (demo paper)

• Chuanren Liu, Jianjun Xie, Yong Ge, Hui Xiong Stochastic Unsupervised Learning on Unlabeled Data, Journal of Machine Learning Research - Workshop and Conference Proceedings, accepted,2011.

• Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Hasan Ozdemir, Jannite Yu, and K.C. Lee, TOP-EYE: Top-k Evolving Trajectory Outlier Detection , the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), to appear,2010.

• Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Alexander Tuzhilin, Keli Xiao, Marco Gruteser,Michael J. Pazzani, An Energy-Efficient Mobile Recommender System , the 16th ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2010), to appear,2010 (Accepted for full presentation).

• Wenjun Zhou, Hui Xiong, Yong Ge, Jannite Yu, Hasan Ozdemir, and K.C.Lee. Direction Clustering for Characterizing Movement Patterns, the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration(IRI'10), to appear,2010(Accepted for full paper).

• Jie Yang, Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Yingying Chen, and Hongbo Liu. Performing Joint Learning for Passive Intrusion Detection in Pervasive Wireless Environments, the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2010), to appear, 2010.

• Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Wenjun Zhou, Ramendra Sahoo, Xiaofeng Gao, Weili Wu, Multi-focal Learning and Its Application to Customer Service Support, the 15th ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009), pp. 349 - 358, 2009. (Accepted for Regular Presentation).

• Yong Ge, Richang Hong, Zhiwei Gu, Rong Zhang, Xiuqing Wu. A Probability Model for Image Annotation, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia&Expo(ICME 2007), pp. 827 - 830, 2007.

• Richang Hong, Chao Wang, Yong Ge, Meng Wang, Xiuqing Wu. Salience Preserving Multi-focus Image Fusion, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia&Expo(ICME 2007), pp. 1663 - 1666, 2007.

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Professional Activities

Journal Review

• TSMC-B: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B

• Information Science

• Neurocomputing

• KAIS: Knowledge and Information System

External Review

• CIKM11, UbiComp11, KDD11, SDM11, PKDD11, CIKM10, KDD09, ICML09, ICDM09, CIKM09, ICDE10, TPAMI, ACM TIST, Pattern Recognition

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Last Update: 9/12/2011