Shilin DING

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Address: Department of Statistics
                University of Wisconsin-Madison
                1200M Medical Science Center
                1300 University Avenue
                Madison, WI, 53706

Tel:          (608) 262-8181

Fax:          (608) 262-0032 `

Email:     dingsl@gmail.com                   CURRICULUM VITAE

I'm a graduate student in Statistics Department in Prof. Grace Wahba's research group.

Research Interest

• Theoretical end: Machine Learning, Graphical Models, High-Dimensional Data, Optimization

• Application end: Information Extraction & Retrieval, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Web Intelligence

Education

• 2008 - 2012 (expected): Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Advisor: Prof. Grace Wahba.

• 2009 - 2011: M.S. in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• 2007: Visting Student in AI Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.

• 2005 - 2008: M.S. in Computer Science, Tsinghua University. Advisor: Prof. Xiaoyan Zhu.

• 2001 - 2005: B.S. in Computer Science, Nanjing University of Sci & Tech.

Work Experience

• May 2011 - August 2011, SDE Intern in Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence, directed by Brad Daniels .

• July 2007 - March 2008, Research Intern in Microsoft Research Asia, directed by Chin-Yew Lin and Gao Cong.

Teaching Assitant

• Fall 2006: Course 30240233, Fundamentals of Programming

• Fall 2005: Course 30240233, Fundamentals of Programming

Projects

• Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence: Improving the parallel processing of large data sets in Analysis Services Engine.

• Web Knowledge Mining in Microsoft Research Asia: Identifying contextual information in interactive dialogues to retrieve answers by Graphical Models; Building a Question and Answering system for online service; Parsing in context free grammar.

• www.kango.com Kango travel: An entrepreneurship project with the startup company searchspark.com while in Stanford.

• ONBIRES: An ontoloty-based information extraction system, aiming at extracting, evaluating and integrating Biological relations from biomedical literatures.

• BioCreAtIvE: Team leader in BioCreAtIvE 2006 and ranked top 1 in the competition.

• SPIES: A Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction System.

• NE4Pro: A Named Entiry Recognition system to automatically identify protein names in biomedical literature.

Publications

[1] Shilin Ding, Grace Wahba, Jerry Xiaojin Zhu. Learning Higher-Order Graph Structure with Features by Structure Penalty. To appear in 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011). A short version of TR 1164, 2011. (PDF)

[2] Xinying Song, Shilin Ding, Chin-Yew Lin. Better Binarization for the CKY Parsing. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), Oct 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii. (PDF)

[3] Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, and Xiaoyan Zhu. Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums. In Proceedings of 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008), pp 710-718, Jun 2008, Columbus, Ohio. (PDF)

[4] Minlie Huang, Shilin Ding, Hongning Wang, and Xiaoyan Zhu. Mining Physical Protein-protein Interactions from Literature. Genome Biology , 2008, 9(Suppl 2): S10. (PDF)

[5] Hongning Wang, Minlie Huang, Shilin Ding, Xiaoyan Zhu. Exploiting and Integrating Rich Features for Biological Literature Classification. BMC Bioinformatics, 2008; 9(Suppl 3): S4. (PDF)

[6] Shilin Ding, Minlie Huang, Hongning Wang, and Xiaoyan Zhu. Profile-feature Based Protein Interaction Extraction from Full-Text Articles. In Proceedings of the 7th BIOKDD Workshop in the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 42-49, Aug, 2007, San Jose. (PDF)

[7] Shilin Ding, Minlie Huang, and Xiaoyan Zhu. Semi-supervised Pattern Learning for Extracting Relations from Bioscience Texts. In Proceedings of the Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, pp. 307-316, Jan 15, 2007, Hongkong. (PDF)

[8] Minlie Huang, Shilin Ding, Hongning Wang, Xiaoyan Zhu. Mining Physical Protein-Protein Interactions by Exploiting Abundant Features. In Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop, April, 2007, Spain. (PDF)

[9] Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Shilin Ding, Hao Yu and Ming Li. ONBIRES: ONtology-based BIological Relation Extraction System. In Proceedings of the Fourth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, pp. 327-335. Feb 13-16, 2006, Taiwan. (PDF)

[10] Jiao Li, Minlie Huang, Shilin Ding, Hao Yu, and Xiaoyan Zhu. Semantic relationship-related biological text retrieval. In Journal of University of Science and Technology of China. 2006: 36 (8), pp. 906-908 (PDF)

[11] Budi Ongkowijaya, Shilin Ding, Xiaoyan Zhu. Various Features with Integrated Strategies for Protein Name Classification. In proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Lecture Notes of Computer Science, vol. 3759, pp. 213-222, Nanjing, China, 2005. (PDF)

Patents

[1] Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, Shilin Ding. Summarizing Online Forums into Question-Context-Answer Triples. Application NO. 20100076978

Last Updated: Aug 29th 2011