DING, Hongqiang Chris

Biography:

Professor Ding is currently a professor at the Institute of Data and Decision Analytics, CUHK(SZ). Prior to that, Professor Ding held positions at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Texas, Arlington. Professor Ding was selected into the CUSPEA program and went to Columbia University for further study and obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics and computer science.

 

Professor Ding's research interests include machine learning/data mining, bioinformatics, information retrieval, and web link analysis. He and his collaborators work on multi-class protein fold prediction is now standard benchmark for protein 3D structure prediction. Professor Ding and his team discovered that Principal Component Analysis (PCA) provides the solution to K-means clustering. They also proved that nonnegative matrix factorization is equivalent to K-means /spectral clustering. Professor Ding and his co-researcher generalized PCA to 2D Singular Value Decomposition for dimension reduction of a set of 2D matrices. Their MPH technology/software for integrating multi-component executables on distributed memory architectures are adopted in many state-of-art large scale models for predicting the long-term climate. Professor Ding also developed the vacancy tracking algorithm for provably optimal in-place multi-dimensional array index reshuffle .

 

Professor Ding previously worked at California Institute of Technology on Caltech Hypercubes developing parallel algorithms for Materials Science and Computational Biology; at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on developing algorithms for climate data assimilation, sparse matrix linear solvers and parallel graph partitioning; at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working on high performance computing, algorithmic R&D for climate models, application benchmarking, giving tutorials on HPF, MPI, etc., and exploring new frontiers, the magic of matrix for clustering, ordering, ranking, embedding, bipartite graphs for systemic representation of proteins interaction networks, motifs, domains, complexes, functional modules, pathways .

 

Besides, Professor Ding has won four Best Paper Awards for climate data assimilation parallel algorithm and supernova detection using support vector machines, a NASA Group Achievement Award at JPL, and two Outstanding Performance Awards at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He served in review panels for US National Science Foundation, and as reviewer for research proposals of National Science Foundations of Ireland, Israel, and Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. He also served for Bioinformatics journal, and program committees of leading conferences in data mining, machine learning and bioinformatics. He co-organizes annual workshops on data mining using matrices and tensors. His work was reported by Science, Nature, SIAM, and National Research Council Report.

Academic Publications:

 

1. 1. Consensus Spectral Clustering. Dijun Luo, Chris Ding, Heng Huang. ICDE 2011, accepted to appear.

2. 2. On the eigenvectors of p-Laplacian. Dijun Luo, Heng Huang, Chris Ding, Feiping Nie. Machine Learning 81(1): 37-51 (2010)

3. 3. Efficient and Robust Feature Selection via Joint L2,1-Norms Minimization, Feiping Nie, Heng Huang, Cai Xiao, Chris Ding. NIPS 2010

4. 4. Towards Structural Sparsity: An Explicit L2/L0 Approach. Dijun Luo, Chris Ding, Heng Huang. ICDM 2010.

5. 5. Multi-Label Linear Discriminant Analysis, Hua Wang, Chris Ding, Heng Huang. The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010).

6. 6. Image Categorization Using Directed Graphs. Hua Wang, Heng Huang, Chris Ding. ECCV (3) 2010: 762-775

7. 7. Multi-label Feature Transform for Image Classifications. Hua Wang, Heng Huang, Chris Ding. ECCV (4) 2010: 793-806

8. 8. Discriminant Laplacian Embedding. Hua Wang, Heng Huang, Chris Ding. AAAI 2010

9. 9. Multi-Label Classification: Inconsistency and Class Balanced K-Nearest Neighbor. Hua Wang, Chris Ding, Heng Huang. AAAI 2010

10. 10. Exploiting user interests for collaborative filtering: interests expansion via personalized ranking. Qi Liu, Enhong Chen, Hui Xiong, Chris Ding. CIKM 2010: pp1697-1700.

11. 11. Hierarchical Ensemble Clustering. Li Zheng, Tao Li, and Chris Ding. In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010).

12. 12. Weighted Feature Subset Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and its Applications to Document Understanding. Dingding Wang, Chris Ding, and Tao Li. In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010).

13. 13. Feature subset non-negative matrix factorization and its applications to document understanding. Dingding Wang, Chris Ding, Tao Li. SIGIR 2010, pp:805-806

14. 14. Closed form solution of similarity algorithms. Yuanzhe Cai, Miao Zhang, Chris Ding, Sharma Chakravarthy. SIGIR 2010: 709-710

15. 15. Directed Graph Learning via High-Order Co-linkage Analysis. Hua Wang, Chris Ding, Heng Huang. ECML/PKDD (3) 2010: 451-466.

16. 16. Community Discovery Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. Fei Wang, Tao Li, Xin Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, and Chris Ding. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, to appear, 2010.

17. 17. Bridging Domains with Words: Opinion Analysis with Matrix Tri-factorizations. Tao Li, Vikas Sindhwani, Chris Ding, Yi Zhang. SDM 2010: 293-302

18. 18. Binary matrix factorization for analyzing gene expression data. Zhongyuan Zhang, Tao Li, Chris Ding, Xian-Wen Ren, Xiangsun Zhang. Data Min. Knowl. Discov. 20(1): 28-52 (2010)

19. 19. Collaborative Filtering: Weighted Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Incorporating User and Item Graphs. Quanquan Gu, Jie Zhou, Chris Ding. SDM 2010: 199-210

20. 20. Convex and Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorizations 
    [New variants of NMF with enhanced interpretability]
    Chris Ding, Tao Li, Michael I. Jordan.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009.

21. 21. Consensus Group Based Stable Feature Selection
    Steven Loscalzo, Lei Yu, and Chris Ding.
    Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-09), Paris, France, June, 2009. (Full paper, acceptance rate: 10%)

22. 22. Symmetric Two Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis (2DLDA) 
    Dijun Luo, Chris Ding, Heng Huang.
    Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009).

23. 23. Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification.
    Tao Li, Vikas Sindhwani, Chris Ding.
    Proceedings of 32st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2009), 2009 ( poster paper).

24. 24. Integrated KL (K-means - Laplacian) Clustering: A New Clustering Approach by Combining Attribute Data and Pairwise Relations. 
    Fei Wang, Chris Ding, Tao Li.
    Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2009).

25. 25. Non-negative Laplacian Embedding,
    Dijun Luo, Chris Ding, Heng Huang.
    IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009).

26. 26. Image Annotation Using Multi-label Correlated Green's Function,
    Hua Wang, Heng Huang, Chris Ding.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009), pp. 1-8.

27. 27. Binary Matrix Factorization for Analyzing Gene Expression Data.
    Zhong-Yuan Zhang, Tao Li, Chris Ding, Xian-Wen Ren, and Xiang-Sun Zhang.
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, to appear, 2009.

28. 28. K-Subspace Clustering.
    Dingding Wang, Chris Ding, and Tao Li.
    Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2009)

29. 29. Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Combinatorial Optimization: Spectral Clustering, Graph Matching, and Clique Finding 
    Chris Ding, Tao Li, Michael I. Jordan
    Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008) pp.183-192, 2008

30. 30. Simultaneous Tensor Subspace Selection and Clustering: The Equivalence of High Order SVD and K-Means Clustering. 
    Heng Huang, Chris Ding, Dijun Luo, Tao Li.
    Proc. ACM Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2008. (Full paper, acceptance rate: 10%)

31. 31. Tensor Reduction Error Analysis -- Applications to Video Compression and Classification.
    Chris Ding, Heng Huang, Dijun Luo.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), accepted to appear.

32. 32. Stable Feature Selection via Dense Feature Groups. 
    Lei Yu, Chris Ding, Steven Loscalzo.
    Proc. ACM Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2008. (Full paper, acceptance rate: 10%)

33. 33. On the Equivalence Between Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing. (PDF)
    Chris Ding, Tao Li and Wei Peng.
    Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol.52, 2008.
    (Journal version of our AAAI 2006 conference paper with same title)

34. 34. Robust Tensor Factorization Using R1 Norm 
    Heng Huang and Chris Ding.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), accepted to appear.

35. 35. Knowledge Transformation from Word Space to Document Space. 
    Tao Li, Chris Ding, Yi Zhang, and Bo Shao.
    Proc. Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2008), pp: 187-194, 2008.

36. 36. Multi-Document Summarization via Sentence-Level Semantic Analysis and Symmetric Matrix Factorization.
    Dingding Wang, Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu,and Chris Ding.
    Proceedings of 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2008), to appear.

37. 37. Posterior Probabilistic Clustering using NMF. 
    Chris Ding, Tao Li, Dijun Luo and Wei Peng.
    Proceedings of 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2008), pp.831-832, 2008 ( poster paper).

38. 38. Weighted Consensus Clustering.
    Tao Li and Chris Ding.
    Proceedings of 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2008), to appear.

39. 39. Efficient Parallel I/O in Community Atmosphere Model (CAM)

    Yu-Heng Tseng and Chris Ding

    Int'l Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 22, No. 2, 206-218 (2008) )

40. 40. Gene Selection Algorithm by Combining ReliefF and mRMR.

    Yi Zhang, Chris Ding and Tao Li

    BMC Bioinformatics. 2008, vol.9:S27. ( paper online )

41. 41. Estimating Support for Protein-Protein Interaction Data with Applications to Function Prediction (PDF)

    Erliang Zeng, Chris Ding, Giri Narasimhan, Stephen R. Holbrook

    Int'l Conf. Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2008), pp.73-84, August 2008. Stanford, CA.