Tianyi Wu



Ph.D. Candidate

Data Mining Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Email: twu5 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Phone: (217) 244-3570
Office: 2119B Siebel Center
Address: 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

About Me

  Hi! I am a Ph.D. student in the Data Mining Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is Dr. Jiawei Han. I received my B.S. degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2005 and M.S. degree from UIUC in 2007, both in computer science.
  In summer 2008 and 2009, I was a research intern in Microsoft Research, working with the Data Managemenent, Exploration and Mining (DMX) group and Internet Services Research Center (ISRC), respectively.

Research Interest

   My research interests center around data mining and database systems. I am interested in developing effective and efficient algorithms for discovering interesting patterns from multidimensional data. I have also been working on association and correlation mining for large transaction data.

Publication 

(Complete list on DBLP)

- Conference -

Promotion Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Space [slides] [code]
Tianyi Wu, Dong Xin, Qiaozhu Mei, and Jiawei Han
Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), Lyon, France, Aug. 2009.
Subspace Discovery for Promotion: A Cell Clustering Approach
Tianyi Wu and Jiawei Han
12th Int. Conf. on Discovery Science (DS'09), Porto, Portugal, Oct. 2009.
RankClus: Integrating Clustering with Ranking for Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis
Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Peixiang Zhao, Zhijun Yin, Hong Cheng, and Tianyi Wu
Int. Conf. on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT'09), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Mar. 2009.
ARCube: Supporting Ranking Aggregate Queries in Partially Materialized Data Cubes
Tianyi Wu, Dong Xin, and Jiawei Han
ACM Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'08), Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2008.
DataScope: Viewing Database Contents in Google Maps' Way (system demo)
Tianyi Wu, Xiaolei Li, Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, Jacob Lee, and Ricardo Redder
Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'07), Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2007.
Association Mining in Large Databases: A Re-Examination of Its Measures
Tianyi Wu, Yuguo Chen, and Jiawei Han
Int. Conf. on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'07), Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 2007.

- Journal -

Modeling Massive RFID Datasets: A Gateway-Based Movement-Graph Approach
Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, Hong Cheng, Xiaolei Li, Diego Klabjan, and Tianyi Wu
Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2009.

Selected Award

Outstanding Teaching Award of the Computer Science Department, UIUC, 2007
13th Place, 27th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM/ICPC), 2003
Silver Prize, ACM International Programming Asia Regional Contest, Beijing, 2002
First Prize Scholarships (top 3% undergraduate students), Fudan University, 2002 & 2003


Last updated in Oct. 2009.