Computer Sciences Dept.

Byron J. Gao

Post-doc
Picture of Byron

(under development)

Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Science
University of Wisconsin
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI, 53706-1685, USA

Email: (best way to reach me)
byron@cs.wisc.edu

Office: (if I'm not in office, I'm on my way to office)
Room 5395
(608) 262-6536

Research Interests:
community information management, data mining, information extraction, information retrieval, data integration, unstructured data management

Selected Publications:
  1. Rong Ge, Martin Ester, Byron J. Gao, Zengjian Hu, Boaz Ben-Moshe and Binay Bhattacharya. Joint Cluster Analysis of Attribute Data and Relationship Data: Problems, Algorithms and Applications, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD).
  2. Martin Ester, Rong Ge, Byron J. Gao, Zengjian Hu, and Boaz Ben-Moshe. Joint Cluster Analysis of Attribute Data and Relationship Data. Book chapter in Constrained Clustering: Advances in Algorithms, Theory, and Applications, Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, 2008.
  3. Pedro DeRose, Xiaoyong Chai, Byron J. Gao, Warren Shen, AnHai Doan, Philip Bohannon, Jerry Zhu. Building Community Wikipedias: A Machine-Human Partnership Approach. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2008.
  4. AnHai Doan, Philip Bohannon, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Xiaoyong Chai, Pedro DeRose, Byron J. Gao, Warren Shen. User-Centric Research Challenges in Community Information Management Systems. IEEE Data Engineerng Bulletin, 2007.
  5. Byron J. Gao, Martin Ester, Jin-yi Cai, Oliver Schulte, Hui Xiong. The Minimum Consistent Subset Cover Problem and its Applications in Data Mining. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2007. (nominated)
  6. Byron J. Gao and Martin Ester. Turning Clusters into Patterns: Rectangle-based Discriminative Data Description. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2006. (student travel award)
  7. Byron J. Gao, Obi L. Griffith, Martin Ester, and Steven J.M. Jones. Discovering Significant OPSM Subspace Clusters in Massive Gene Expression Data. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2006.
  8. Byron J. Gao and Martin Ester. Right of Inference: Nearest Rectangle Learning Revisited. European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), 2006.
  9. Martin Ester, Rong Ge, Byron J. Gao, Zengjian Hu, and Boaz Ben-Moshe. Joint Cluster Analysis of Attribute Data and Relationship Data: the Connected k-Center Problem. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2006. (one of the three ``Best of SDM 2006")
  10. Byron J. Gao and Martin Ester. Summarizing Data Clusters: Description Formats, Problems and Algorithms. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2006.

Blog:
  • Aug 6, 08. Farewell lunch. Many thanks!
  • Aug 3, 08. Packing. Expecting a warm welcome from Texas.
  • Aug 2, 08. Babcock hall dairy store, recent lunch place.
  • Jul 30, 08. Capital square, large-scale outdoor concert. We are deaf, but not blind, to music.
  • Jul 11, 08. Hot twin lakes: Potato and Tomato. Also referred to as Madonna and Madonna.
  • Jun 27, 08. Editor in chief: IJCP (International Quarterly Journal of Chinese Poetry) :-)
  • Jun 21, 08. Played soccer, at Eagle Heights.
  • Jun 3, 08. Fired. Working through Aug 10. It's been fun. Thank you!
  • Apr 28, 08. Snowed TODAY.
  • Apr 6-12, 08. Cancun, ICDE. The community is tanned.
  • Apr 1, 08. Nice season commences.
  • Feb 17, 08. Weather. Flight cancelled.
  • Feb 6, 08. Blizzard. The world will end, UW will never close.
  • Jan 21, 08. Martin Luther King Snow Day.
  • Dec 26, 07. Applied, though unplanned.
  • Aug 10-15, 07. San Jose, KDD.
  • Apr 14, 07. Arrived.
  • Mar 1-3, 07. Visited.

 
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