My research interests include:

     Artificial Intelligence
     Data Mining
     Data Integration
     Information Extraction
     Biomedical and Health Informatics

   I focus on three critical challenges in processing data and knowledge: heterogeneity, reusability, and scalability.

News:

• Three papers have been accepted for presentations at AAAI-20 in February, 2020.
• Two papers have been accepted for presentations at IJCAI-19 in August, 2019.
• Two short papers have been accepted for presentations at ACL 2019 in July/August, 2019.
• Ph.D. student, Javid Ebrahimi, has successfully defended his thesis and joined Visa Research in December, 2018.
• Our Center for Big Learning (CBL) was funded by the NSF IUCRC program in January, 2018.
• I am co-chairing an AI Frontiers Workshop in Silicon Valley on December 12th, 2017
• I am giving an invited keynote talk at 10th International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society at ICDM 2017.
• Research Associate, Yang Zhou, has joined Auburn University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August, 2017.
• Previous PhD student, Paea LePendu, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at ASU, beginning fall 2017.
• I am giving an invited talk at the Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association on May 18, 2017.
• NSF funded our planning meeting to establish an IUCRC Center for Big Learning (CBL) in 2017.
• Postdoc Research Associate, NhatHai Phan, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at NJIT, beginning fall 2016.
• Two papers have been accepted for Oral Presentation at AAAI-16 in February, 2016.
• Ph.D. student, Fernando Gutierrez, has successfully defended his thesis in the fall of 2015.
• Ph.D. student, Shangpu Jiang, has successfully defended his thesis and joined Google in the fall of 2015.
• The paper Ontology Matching with Knowledge Rules has received Best Paper Award at DEXA 2015.
• I am giving an invited keynote talk at 4th Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare at SDM 2015.
• The SMASH project has been funded by NIH/NIGMS in 2013 as a three year R01 grant. Congratulations to the team!
• I was co-chairing the ODBASE 2013. We have invited 5 selected papers to a special issue of the Springer Journal on Data Semantics.