Gang Luo

  • Research staff member, IBM T.J. Watson research center
  • Phone (O): (914) 784-6932
  • E-mail: gangluo@cs.wisc.edu
  • Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
 

Biographical Sketch

Gang received Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R.China, in June 1998. He obtained Ph.D. degree in Computer Science minor in Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison in June 2004. Gang is currently working at IBM T.J. Watson research center as a Research Staff Member.

 

Research Interests

Gang's research interests include healthcare informatics, information retrieval, database, HCI, machine learning, brain-computer interface, biostatistics, time series, and computational statistics. He invented the iMed intelligent medical search engine, and SQL and compiler progress indicators.

 

Publications


  • G. Luo, C. Tang. On Iterative Intelligent Medical Search. [pdf] Proc. 2008 Int. ACM SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'08), Singapore, July 2008, pp. 3-10.

  • G. Luo. Design and Evaluation of the iMed Intelligent Medical Search Engine. [pdf] Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'09), industry session, Shanghai, China, Apr. 2009, pp. 1379-1390.

  • G. Luo. Intelligent Output Interface for Intelligent Medical Search Engine. [pdf] Proc. 2008 AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'08), Chicago, IL, July 2008, pp. 1201-1206.

  • G. Luo, C. Tang. Challenging Issues in Iterative Intelligent Medical Search. [pdf] Proc. 2008 Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'08), poster presentation, Tampa, FL, Dec. 2008, pp. 1-4.

  • G. Luo. Lessons Learned from Building the iMed Intelligent Medical Search Engine. [pdf] Proc. 2009 Annual Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'09), poster presentation, Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 2009, pp. 5138-5142.

  • G. Luo, S.B. Thomas, and C. Tang. Intelligent Consumer-Centric Electronic Medical Record. [pdf] Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE'09), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sep. 2009, pp. 120-124.

  • G. Luo, C. Tang. Automatic Home Nursing Activity Recommendation. [pdf] Proc. 2009 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA'09), San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2009, pp. 401-405.

  • G. Luo, C. Tang, H. Yang, and X. Wei. MedSearch: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information Retrieval. [pdf] Proc. 2008 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), industry session, Napa Valley, CA, Oct. 2008, pp. 143-152.

  • G. Luo, C. Tang, H. Yang, and X. Wei. MedSearch: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information. [pdf] Poster at 2007 Int. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW'07), Banff, Canada, May 2007, pp. 1175-1176. Full version [pdf]

    The above papers are my research results on intelligent health search engine for personalized medical information . Below are my papers on other topics.

  • G. Luo, C. Tang, and Y. Tian. Answering Relationship Queries on the Web. [pdf] Proc. 2007 Int. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW'07), Banff, Canada, May 2007, pp. 561-570.

  • G. Luo, W. Min. Subject-Adaptive Real-Time Sleep Stage Classification Based on Conditional Random Field. [pdf] Proc. 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA'07), Chicago, IL, Nov. 2007, pp. 488-492. Full version available as IBM research report RC24302 [pdf]

  • W. Min, G. Luo. Medical Applications of EEG Wave Classification. [pdf] Chance (invited), Vol. 22, No. 4, Nov. 2009, pp. 14-20.

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Toward a Progress Indicator for Database Queries. [pdf] Proc. 2004 ACM-SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'04), Paris, France, June 2004, pp. 791-802.

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Increasing the Accuracy and Coverage of SQL Progress Indicators. [pdf] Proc. 2005 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'05), Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 2005, pp. 853-864.

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, and P.S. Yu. Multi-query SQL Progress Indicators. [pdf] Proc. 2006 Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'06), Munich, Germany, Mar. 2006, pp. 921-941.

  • G. Luo, T. Chen, and H. Yu. Toward a Progress Indicator for Program Compilation. [pdf] Software: Practice and Experience (SPE), Vol. 37, No. 9, July 2007, pp. 909-933.

  • G. Luo, C. Tang, and P.S. Yu. Resource-Adaptive Real-Time New Event Detection. [pdf] Proc. 2007 ACM-SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'07), Beijing, China, June 2007, pp. 497-508.

  • G. Luo, R. Yan, and P.S. Yu. Real-Time New Event Detection for Video Streams. [pdf] Proc. 2008 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), Napa Valley, CA, Oct. 2008, pp. 379-388.

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Locking Protocols for Materialized Aggregate Join Views. [pdf] IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 17, No. 6, June 2005, pp. 796-807. (This is an extension of the VLDB'03 paper.) Full version available as IBM research report RC24088 [pdf]

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Locking Protocols for Materialized Aggregate Join Views. [pdf] Proc. 2003 Int. Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB'03), Berlin, Germany, Sep. 2003, pp. 596-607. Full version [pdf]

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. A Comparison of Three Methods for Join View Maintenance in Parallel RDBMS. [pdf] Proc. 2003 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'03), Bangalore, India, Mar. 2003, pp. 177-188.

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Auxiliary Relations for Join View Maintenance in Parallel RDBMS. [pdf] Poster at 2002 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'02), San Jose, CA, Feb. 2002. An extended version of this paper appears at ICDE'03.

  • G. Luo. Techniques for Operational Data Warehousing. [pdf] Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2004.

  • G. Luo, C.J. Ellmann, P.J. Haas, and J.F. Naughton. A Scalable Hash Ripple Join Algorithm. Proc. 2002 ACM-SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'02), Madison, WI, June 2002, pp. 252-262. [pdf]

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, and C.J. Ellmann. A Non-blocking Parallel Spatial Join Algorithm. Proc. 2002 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'02), San Jose, CA, Feb. 2002, pp. 697-705. [pdf]

  • G. Luo. Efficient Detection of Empty Result Queries. [pdf] Proc. 2006 Int. Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB'06), Seoul, Korea, Sep. 2006, pp. 1015-1025.

  • G. Luo. Partial Materialized Views. [pdf] Proc. 2007 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 2007, pp. 756-765. Full version available as IBM research report RC24089 [pdf]

  • G. Luo, K. Wu, and P.S. Yu. Answering Linear Optimization Queries with an Approximate Stream Index. [pdf] Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 20, No. 1, 2009, pp. 95-121. (This is an extension of the ICDE'07 short paper.)

  • G. Luo, K. Wu, and P.S. Yu. SAO: A Stream Index for Answering Linear Optimization Queries. [pdf] Proc. 2007 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), short paper, Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 2007, pp. 1302-1306. Full version [pdf]

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Transaction Reordering. [pdf] Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE, invited), Vol. 69, No. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 29-49.

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Transaction Reordering with Application to Synchronized Scans. [pdf] ACM Eleventh Int. Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP'08), Napa Valley, CA, Oct. 2008, pp. 17-23.

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Transaction Reordering with Application to Synchronized Scans. [pdf] Poster at 2008 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), Napa Valley, CA, Oct. 2008, pp. 1335-1336. Full version [pdf]

  • G. Luo, J.F. Naughton, C.J. Ellmann, and M.W. Watzke. Transaction Reordering and Grouping for Continuous Data Loading. [pdf] First International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real Time Enterprise (BIRTE'06), Seoul, Korea, Sep. 2006, pp. 34-49. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4365. Full version available as IBM research report RC24087 [pdf]

  • G. Luo, P.S. Yu. Content-Based Filtering for Efficient Online Materialized View Maintenance. [pdf] Proc. 2008 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), Napa Valley, CA, Oct. 2008, pp. 163-172.

  • K. Wu, P.S. Yu, B. Gedik, K.W. Hildrum, C.C. Aggarwal, E. Bouillet, W. Fan, D.A. George, X. Gu, G. Luo, and H. Wang. Challenges and Experience in Prototyping a Multi-Modal Stream Analytic and Monitoring Application on System S. [pdf] Proc. 2007 Int. Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB'07), industry session, Vienna, Austria, Sep. 2007, pp. 1185-1196.
  • G. Luo, V.K. Chaudhri. Implementing OKBC Knowledge Model Using Object Relational Capabilities of Oracle 8. Technical report. [pdf]
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    Patents

    Gang developed twenty-five patents as a byproduct of his research.

    Last updated on November 12, 2009


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