Pinnacle SMU LARC
Email: fdzhu[at]smu.edu.sg
Office: SIS 4032
Phone: +65-68085101
Associate Professor
School of Information Systems
Founding Director
Pinnacle Lab for Analytics, 2013-2019.
DBS-SMU Life Analytics Lab, 2015-2016.
Singapore Management University.
80 Stamford Road
Singapore, 178902

Ph.D. (2009), Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), co-advised by Prof. Jiawei Han and Prof. Jeff Erickson.

Research Interests
My current research interests include large-scale constraint-based sequential, graph pattern mining and information/social network analysis, with applications on web, management information systems, business intelligence and bioinformatics. With a theoretical computer science background, I am also interested in algorithm design and complexity analysis for real-life problems in data mining and database systems.
Honors & Awards
Early Career Award
The 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'19)
Best Paper Award
Proc. of 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'16), 2016
Lee Kong Chian Fellowship
2016 - 2017
DS Lee Foundation Fellowship
2015 - 2016
Best Demo Paper Runner-Up
Proc. of 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'13), 2013
Best Student Paper
Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007
Best Student Paper
Proc. of 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2007
Services

2014

  • Organizing Committee Chair, DASFAA'14
  • Demo Co-Chair, DASFAA'14, APWeb'14
  • Program Committee Member, WWW'14, ICDM'14, SDM'14, PAKDD'14, WAIM'14
  • Workshop Co-Chair, COOL-SNA'14, SNA-KDD'14

2013

  • Program Co-Chair, SNAKDD'13
  • Senior Program Committee Member, CIKM'13
  • Program Committee Member, ICDM'13, ICDE'13, PAKDD'13, SDM'13, LSNA'13, BigData'13, WAIM'13, ASONAM'13, BDDS'13

2012

  • Workshop Co-Chair, "Data Mining: Twenty Years and Beyond" joint Workshop with KDD'12
  • Program Committee Member, WSDM'12, ICDE'12, VLDB'12, ICDM'12, CIKM'12, GDM'12, LSNA'12, ACML'12, I-SPAN'12

2011

  • Registration Chair, SocInfo'11
  • Program Committee Member, WWW demo track, WWW'11

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Recent News

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Jun
1
Demo paper accepted in VLDB 2014.
"CLEar: A Real-time Online Observatory for Bursty and Viral Events".

May
10
"COOL-SNA 2014" Co-Chair
"COOL-SNA 2014" will be held in Shenzhen, China on December 14-17, 2014

Apr
18
"SNA-KDD 2014" workshop Co-Chair
"SNA-KDD 2014" will be held in New York city on August 24, 2014.

Apr
20
Tutorial accepted in KDD 2014
"Network Mining and Analysis for Social Applications"

Dec
6
Gave talk on BDTC2013.
"Social Network Mining and Analysis for Business Intelligence" by Feida Zhu.

Nov
26
Best Paper Award Finalist at SocInfo'13 in Kyoto
"Predicting User’s Political Party using Ideological Stances" by Swapna Gottipati, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feida Zhu and Jing Jiang

Nov
20
Full Paper accepted to SIGMOD 2014
"HYDRA: Large-scale Social Identity Linkage via Heterogeneous Behavior Modeling"

Oct
6
Talk given at INFORMS'13 in Minneapolis, USA
"Behavior-driven Social Network Mining and Analysis for Business Intelligence".

Sep
23
The Pinnacle Lab is born!
A multi-million-dollar joint research lab between China PingAn Group and SMU focusing on big data driven techonolgy innovation for financial services.

Sep
17
Full paper accepted to ICDM 2013
"TopicSketch: Real-time Bursty Topic Detection from Twitter"

Sep
01
Three papers accepted to Socinfo 2013
(1)"Information vs Interaction: An Alternative User Ranking Model for Social Networks",
(2)"Predicting User's Political Party using Stances",
(3)"Social Listening for Customer Acquisition"