معرفی
Hui Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at San Francisco State University (SFSU), with a secondary affiliation in the Center for Computing for Life Sciences (CCLS). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University (2006) under Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy. His research focuses on Data Mining and Text Analytics, particularly in biomedical applications such as food-disease-gene networks, clinical note analysis, and microarray data visualization (e.g., XMAS system). He also explores structural analysis of protein folding data.
Education:
- PhD in Computer Science, The Ohio State University, 2006
Research Interests:
- Biomedical text mining for health networks and clinical informatics
- Development of data visualization tools for biological datasets
- Application of machine learning in education and public health
- Spatio-temporal analysis for social and urban data
Notable Contributions:
- Received Best Poster Award at IEEE Computing Conferences 2017
- Co-developed the XMAS system for microarray data exploration
- Active in curriculum design and student retention research
Advising & Grants:
- Advises undergraduate and graduate students in CS curricula (e.g., CSC869 Data Mining)
- Maintains a research lab with RA positions in data mining and bioinformatics
- Collaborates with institutions like Genentech and IBM Almaden
Labs & Teams:
Leads the CCLS at SFSU, focusing on interdisciplinary computing solutions in life sciences.
