Ning Ruan
 

Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Kent State University

Email: ruanning@gmail.com
Office: 354 MCS
Office Tel: +1-330-672-9107

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

About Me

Currently, I am software engineer in Google Inc.

My advisor is Prof. Ruoming Jin.

Here is my [Curriculum Vitae].

Research Interests

  • Graph Mining, Complex Network Analysis
  • Databases
  • Bioinformatics

Publications

Book Chapters and Journal Publications

BookChapter Victor Lee, Ning Ruan, Ruoming Jin, " A Survey of Algorithms for Dense Subgraph Discovery", In MANAGING AND MINING GRAPH DATA, edited by Charu Aggarwal and Haixun Wang, Springer, 2010.
Journal (TODS) Ruoming Jin, Ning Ruan, Yang Xiang and Haixun Wang, "Path-Tree: An Efficient Reachability Indexing Scheme for Large Directed Graphs", ACM Transactions on Database System (TODS), Vol 36, Issue 1, 2011. [Code (Improved Version of path-tree in SIGMOD'08)]
 

Conference Publications

SIGMOD'12 Ruoming Jin, Ning Ruan, Saikat Dey and Jeffrey Yu Xu, "SCARAB: Scaling Reachability Computation on Large Graphs", In Proc. SIGMOD Conference, 2012. [Code]
SIGMOD'12 Ruoming Jin, Ning Ruan, Yang Xiang and Victor Lee, "A Highway-Centric Labeling Approach for Answering Distance Queries on Large Sparse Graphs", In Proc. SIGMOD Conference, 2012.
ICDM'11 Ning Ruan, Ruoming Jin, Yan Huang, "Distance Preserving Graph Simplification", In Proc. ICDM, Vancouver, Canada, December, 2011.
SIGMOD'10 Ruoming Jin, Hui Hong, Haixun Wang, Ning Ruan and Yang Xiang, " Computing Label Constraint Reachability in Graph Databases", In Proc. SIGMOD Conference, Indianapolis, June, 2010.
ICDM'09 Ning Ruan, Ruoming Jin, Victor Lee, Kun Huang, "A Sparsification Approach for Temporal Graphical Model Decomposition", In Proc. ICDM, Miami, Florida, December, 2009. [PPT]
SIGMOD'09 Ruoming Jin, Yang Xiang, Ning Ruan, Dave Fuhry, "3-HOP: A High-Compression Indexing Scheme for Reachability Query", In Proc. SIGMOD Conference, pp. 813-826, Providence, Rhode Island, June, 2009.
SIGKDD'08 Ruoming Jin, Muad Abu-Ata, Yang Xiang, Ning Ruan, "Effective and Efficient Itemset Pattern Summarization: Regression-based Approaches", In Proc. SIGKDD Conference, pp. 399-407, Las Vegas, USA, August, 2008.
SIGMOD'08 Ruoming Jin, Yang Xiang, Ning Ruan, Haixun Wang, "Efficiently Answering Reachability Queries on Very Large Directed Graph", In Proc. SIGMOD Conference, pp. 595-608, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2008.
IGARSS'06 Ning Ruan, Ning Huang, Wen Hong, "Semantic-Based Image Retrieval in Remote Sensing Archive: An Ontology Approach", In Proc. IGARSS 2006 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 2903-2907, Denver, Colorado, USA, July, 2006.
 

Misc

AMIA'09 Yang Xiang, Jie Zhang Ning Ruan, Ruoming Jin, Kun Huang, "A Study on Frequent Co-Expression Networks in Cancers", AMIA Annual Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, March 2009.

Professional Activities

Program Committee for Conferences: WAIM12, WAIM13, DASFAA13
Reviewer for Journals: TKDE (Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering), Sepcial Issue of DKE(Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal), Computers & Geosciences
External reviewer for Conferences: WAIM08, ECML/PKDD08, EDBT09, SIGKDD09, ICDM09, ICISTM10, SDM10, PAKDD10, SIGKDD10, SDM11, PAKDD11