Victor E. Lee
 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
 John Carroll University
 1 John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio 44118

  vlee @ jcu.edu
  stuweb.jcu.edu/vlee

 

Research and Professional Interests

Applying data mining to social and complex networks; bioinformatics; database design; high performance computing; linguistics and natural language processing; integrating computational thinking into interdisciplinary and liberal arts education.

Education

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Ph.D, Computer Science, 2012
    Dissertation: "RoleSim and RoleMatch: Role-based similarity and graph matching"
    Advisor: Ruoming Jin

Stanford University, Stanford, California
M.S. Electrical Engineering
    Concentration: Solid State Circuits and VLSI

University of California, Berkeley, California
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
    Highest Honors

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Book Chapter

  • Victor E. Lee, Ning Ruan, Ruoming Jin, Charu Aggarwal: "A Survey of Algorithms for Dense Subgraph Discovery," in Managing and Mining Graph Data, ed. Charu Aggarwal and Haixun Wang, Springer, 2010.

Workshop Presentations

  • Victor Lee, Ruoming Jin, Hui Hong: Axiomatic Ranking of Network Role Similarity, Beihang University Graduate Academic Forum, Beijing, China, October 2011
  • Victor Lee, Ruoming Jin, Ning Ruan, Scott McCallen: Dynamic Module Discovery in Temporal Complex Networks, SDM Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks, 2009.


Teaching Experience

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, John Carroll University, Ohio

2012 to present

Adjunct Instructor, University of Mount Union, Ohio

2006 to 2011

Lecturer, Kent State University, Ohio

2007, 2011

ESL Teacher, DeKalb Technical College, Georgia

2002-2005

 
Courses Taught

 

Introductory Courses

  • Information Management
  • Programming / Software Applications
  • Web Design & Image Processing

Courses for Computer Science Majors:

  • Computer Organization
  • Computer Architecture
  • Database Systems Design
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data Patterns


Industry and Management Experience

 

ESL Lead Teacher, DeKalb Technical College, Georgia

2003-2005

 

Founded an evening campus for adult English as a Second Language instruction. Supervised nine employees and over 200 students.

 

Technology Transfer Engineering Manager, Rambus Inc., California

1998 - 2000

 

Built and led a multidisciplinary team which guided client companies worldwide through the implementation of Rambus memory technology, resulting in mass production of the fastest personal computer memory system.

 

Design Engineer, Rambus Inc., California

 

Circuit Design Engineer, Mosel-Vitelic Inc., California

 


Awards and Honors

  • Presenter, Beihang University Graduate Academic Forum, Beijing, China, October 2011
  • U.S. Patent 6,671,836: Method and Apparatus for Testing Memory, L. Lai, V. Lee, J. Gasbarro
  • Solid State Affiliates Fellowship, Stanford University
  • Graduated with Highest Honors, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Activities

  • Conference reviewer: ICDE, KDD, PAKDD, SDM, ICDM, EBDT
  • Member of IEEE, ACM, and SIAM
  • Invited Speaker, Univ. of Mount Union Pi Mu Epsilon math honor society, 2011
  • Judge, Ohio District 13 Science Fair, 2011

 

Revised Apr. 2, 2013