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Colloquium for Friday, May 1, 2009
  Speaker: Dr. Jimeng Sun, USA Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY

  Title: Incremental Pattern Discovery on Streams and Graphs

  Abstract: Incremental pattern discovery targets streaming applications where the data continuously arrive over time. The questions are how to find patterns (main trends) incrementally; or how to efficiently update the old patterns when new data arrive; or how to utilize the patterns to solve other problems such as anomaly detection and community detection? In this talk, we present mining methods for two types of data streams: numeric streams and graph streams.

First, we present SPIRIT (Streaming Pattern dIscoveRy in multIple Time-series) for mining high-dimensional numeric streams. In particular, SPIRIT can incrementally find correlations and hidden variables, which summarize the key trends in the entire stream collection. We then demonstrate several applications of SPIRIT such as anomaly detection, compression, and privacy preservation over streams; and its extension to the distributed mining.

Second, we present Graphscope that uses information theoretic principles to find communities and spot discontinuity time points over graph streams. Graphscope is designed to operate on large graphs in a streaming fashion without any user-defined parameters. We demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our GraphScope on real datasets from several diverse domains. In all cases it produces meaningful time-evolving patterns that agree with human intuition.

Bio: Jimeng Sun is a research staff member at IBM TJ Watson lab. He received a Bachelor and MPhil in Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2002 and 2003. After that, he obtained a MS and PhD degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and 2007. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, databases and IT service management and optimization. He has received the best research paper award in ICDM 2008, KDD Dissertation runner-up award in 2008, and the best research paper award in SDM 2007. He has published over 30 refereed articles and one book chapter. He filed four patents and has given four tutorials. He has served as a program committee member for SIGKDD, SDM, ICDM and CIKM.

http://www.dasfa.net/wiki/index.php?title=Jimeng_Sun#About_me

Host: Ruoming Jin

  Time: Friday, May 1, 2009, 3:45 - 5:00 PM

  Place: MSB, Room 228


Other Colloquia Scheduled for Spring 2009
  • Wednesday April 1, 2009
    Computational Thinking
    Dr. Jeannette M. Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Assistant Director, CISE Directorate, National Science Foundation
    3:45 - 5:00 PM MSB, Room 228
  • Wednesday April 15, 2009
    Graph sandwich problems
    Dr. R. Sritharan, The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
    3:45 - 5:00 PM MSB, Room 228

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