Dr. Jian Pei's Research

Research

Research Interest

Data mining
Data warehousing and online analytic processing (OLAP)
Database systems
Bioinformatics

Broader Impacts of My Research

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DBLP
The Most Influential Paper Award in PAKDD 2009 Conference for our paper published in PAKDD'00.
The Best Application Paper Award in ACM SIGKDD 2008 Conference
The IEEE Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Twenty-First International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07)
IBM Faculty Award (2006)
The British Columbia Innovation Council 2005 Young Innovator Award (SFU announcement)
The Runner-up for the best Application Paper Award in ACM SIGKDD 2004 Conference
Member of the Advisory Board of Avyna Inc. (since December, 2007)

Ongoing Projects

Principal Investigator, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 2008 Discovery Accelerator Supplements: Analyzing and Mining Large Uncertain Data Sets: Models, Methods and Applications (2008-2011)
Principal Investigator, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants Program: Analyzing and Mining Large Uncertain Data Sets: Models, Methods and Applications (2008-2013)
Principal Investigator, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development Grants: Extracting and Tagging Tabular Data on the Web (2009-2010)
Partner Investigator (equivalent to co-PI in Canada and the US), Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects: Mining Multiple Information Sources through Collaborative and Comparative Analysis (2010-2012)
Co-principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China Priority Program: Theory and New Methods in Web Search and Mining (2010-2012)
Principal Investigator, Microsoft AdCenter Project: Context-aware Keyword Search and Bidding (2008-2009)
Investigator, Simon Fraser University Community Trust Endowment Fund: Bioinformatics for Combating Infectious Diseases: Novel Methods for Drug and Target Identification and Evaluation (March 2006 - March 2012)

Finished Projects

Principal Investigator, NSERC/MITACS Joint Internship Project (Partner Organization: Business Objects): Advanced Data Analytics Techniques for Online Data-Sharing Communities (2008-2009)
Principal Investigator, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants Program: Online Analytic Processing and Interactive Mining of Complex Data from Multiple Sources (2005-2008)
Co-Investigator: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Team Planning Award: Genomics Data Mining for Personalized Medicine (2007)
2006 IBM Eclipse Innovation Award: Collaborative Data Mining and Effective Knowledge Sharing (2006)
Co-Investigator, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development Grants: Data Mining in Marketing and Services for Bank X (one of the top-4 banks in Canada) (2006-2007)
Principal Investigator, 2006 HP Technology for Teaching Higher Education Grant Award: Learning by Playing Games in the Classroom (2006-2007) (SFU announcement)
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (NSF) Information and Data Management Project: A Semantic Summarization Approach to Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing (September, 2003 - September, 2007)
Principal Investigator, Simon Fraser University President Research Grant: Data Mining and Data Warehousing (October, 2004 - September, 2006)
Principal Investigator, Simon Fraser University Start-up Grant: Data Mining and Data Warehousing (August, 2004 - July 2006)
Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (NSF) Digital Library Project: Epidemiological Analysis and Early Warning of Disease Outbreaks by Automated Reading and Mining of Pre-Hospital Care Reports (August, 2003 - August, 2004)
Simon Fraser University Endowed Research Fellowship Award: Data Mining and Data Warehousing (October, 2004 - March, 2005)
Principal Investigator, SUNY Buffalo IRCAF Project: Real-Time Data Mining Techniques in Large-Scale Hydro-Informatics Applications (November, 2003 - June, 2005)
Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Project: Computational Approaches to Disease Causes and Treatment (August, 2003 - July, 2006)

Keynote Speeches and Invited Talks

Keynote speech at the 2009 Australian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'09): "Towards Web Search Engine Scale Data Mining", Melbourne, December 1-4, 2009.
Keynote speech at the 25th National Database Conference of China (NDBC'08): "Multidimensional Skylines: How Do Database and Data Mining Approaches Differ and Complement?", Guilin, China, October 24, 2008.
Invited talk at the 9th International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (in conjunction with the KDD 2008 conference): "Multidimensional Skyline Analysis and Mining", August 24, 2008.
Invited talk at the KDD 2006 Workshop on Theory and Practice of Temporal Data Mining: "Mining Temporal Partial Orders from Event Sequences", August 20, 2006.