Jie Cheng
EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVE:
To acquire a research or software design & development position in
a company or research institution in the field of data mining, especially in
Bayesian belief network learning from database or intelligent data analysis.
EDUCATION
1995-1998: Ph.D. Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster
1989-1993: B.Sc. Department of Computer Science, Beijing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics
1983-1989: Beijing Ri-Tan High School
EXPERIENCE
Research Experience
2001 - current: Senior Data Modeler, DM&ML group, Global Analytics,
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
2000: Staff Software Programmer, DB2 Engine R&D, IBM Toronto Lab
1998-1999: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
April 1995-June 1998: Ph.D. Research Student, University of Ulster
July 1993-March 1995 : Research Assistant, Beijing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Programming Experience
- Visual Basic 3.0-6.0, DAO, ADO, ODBC
- C/C++, Java
- MS-Access 2.0 -- 2000
- ORACLE, MS SQL Server 2000
- DB2 (IBM certified database administrator for DB2 UDB V7)
- Windows NT/2000, Unix OS
Teaching Experience
April 1995-June 1998: Tutorial work for undergraduate CS courses
(computer languages, OS, discrete maths)
Systems Development:
- Belief Network Related Software (including BN
PowerConstructor, BN
PowerPredictor and Data
PreProcessor).
- Deductive Database System for windows (using Visual-Basic 3.0 Pro. and MS-Access 2.0)
- Deductive Database System 1.0 (using C and ORACLE; in cooperation with others).
Certification:
- IBM Certified Solutions Expert -- DB2 UDB
V7.1 Database Administration for UNIX, Windows and OS/2
Publications:
- Cheng, J., Greiner, R., Kelly, J., Bell, DA and Liu, W., Learning Bayesian Networks from Data: an Information-Theory Based Approach, The Artificial Intelligence Journal, Volume 137, Pages 43-90, 2002.
- Cheng, J., Hatzis, C., Hayashi, H., Krogel, M., Morishita, S., Page, D. and Sese, J., KDD Cup 2001 Report. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Volume3, Issue 2, January 2002.
- Cheng, J., KDD CUP 2001 (Task one) presentation at ACM SIGKDD conference, San Francisco, August 2001.
- Cheng, J. and Greiner, R., Learning Bayesian Belief Network Classifiers: Algorithms and System. proceedings of the fourteenth Canadian conference on artificial intelligence, 2001.
- Cheng, J. and Greiner, R., Comparing Bayesian Network Classifiers. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1999.
- Cheng, J., Bell, DA, Liu, W., Learning Belief Networks from Data: An Information Theory Based Approach. Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1997.
- Cheng, J., Bell, DA, Liu, W., An algorithm for Bayesian network construction from data, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 1997.
- Cheng, J., Bell, DA, Liu, W., A belief nework learning algorithm based on information theory. (poster of IJCAI'97)
- Cheng, J., Bell, DA, Liu, W., A practical approach to knowledge representation and reasoning in relational databases, Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1996.
- Huai, JP., Cheng, J., DDBS1.0: A Deductive DataBase System with two query languages, IASTED International Conference Artificial intelligence, expert systmes and neural networks, 1994.
- Huai, JP., Cheng, J., Default DataBase and Its Beliefs Maintenance System, ICARCV'94 Third International Conference on automation, robotics and computer vision, 1994.
AWARDS
- August, 2001, winner of ACM KDDCup data mining
competition 2001.
- April 1995-April 1998, Ph.D. scholarship of University of Ulster
- 1991, first award of 7th Computer Programming Contest of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- 1990, second award of 6th Computer Programming Contest of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- 1987,88,89, first place of Senior High School Computer Programming Contest of ChaoYang District, Beijing
- 1987, third place of Beijing High School Computer Programming Contest (in team)
HOBBIES
Badminton,
Basketball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Net surfing ...
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updated on April 18, 2001.