Guozhu Dong Professor  Office: Joshi 383 Phone: (937)775-5066 FAX: (937)775-5133 Email: guozhu.dong [|at|] wright.edu

Data Mining Research Lab Kno.e.sis Center of Excellence Dept of Computer Sci & Engr Wright State University 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. Dayton, OH 45435-0001

Research Interests

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Prediction Modeling; Prediction Model Analysis; Regression Modeling and Analysis; Classification Modeling and Analysis; Feature Engineering; Blog Mining; Medical Data Mining; Data Cube and OLAP; Bioinformatics; Knowledge Transfer Oriented Data Mining; Mining of Business and Scientific Data; Mining and Management of Text/Image/Time-Series Data; Data Warehousing; Workflow and Active Databases; Database Languages; View Maintenance; Datalog and Deductive Databases.

Teaching

Data Mining; Database Management; Advanced Database Systems; Advanced Data Mining; Data Warehousing; Design of Information Systems; Data Structures and Algorithms; Theoretical Foundation of Computing

Publications

• H-index=44, total citations=8000+. See profile at scholar.google.com
• List of publications, maintained by self.

• List of publications at the (DBLP) Computer Science Bibliography.
• List of publications and citations at scholar.google.com.

• Book: Guozhu Dong and Jian Pei. Sequence Data Mining, Springer. August 2007. Amazon
• Book: Guozhu Dong and James Bailey (editors). Contrast Data Mining: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications. Chapman & Hall/CRC. September 2012. Amazon
• Book: Guozhu Dong and Huan Liu (editors). Feature Engineering for Machine Learning and Data Analytics. Chapman & Hall/CRC. 2018. Amazon
• Book: Guozhu Dong. Exploiting the Power of Group Differences: Using Patterns to Solve Data Analysis Problems.  Morgan & Claypool. 2019. Amazon
• Slides for talks on “Exploiting the Power of Group Differences: Using Patterns to Solve Data Analysis Problems” are available here.
• Blog: A Quick Guide to Feature Engineering, at KDNuggets, 2019.

Awards

• Best Paper Award at the 2005 IEEE ICDM.
• Best Paper Award at the 2014 PAKDD Conference.
• Best Student Paper Award (with Vahid Taslimitehrani) at the 2014 IEEE BIBE Conference.
• Research Excellence Award, College of CECS, Wright State University, 2012.

Patents

• Comparative Web Search System and Method. United States Patent 7,912,847. Issued on 3/22/2011. (Filed as 60/890,687. 2/20/07.) Hardik Lagad and Guozhu Dong.
• Method and apparatus for classification of data by aggregating emerging patterns. United States Patent 6,507,843. Issued on 1/14/03. Guozhu Dong, Xiuzhen Zhang, Jinyan Li, Limsoon Wong.
• Data item evaluation based on the combination of multiple factors. United States Patent 6,499,023. Issued on 12/24/02. Guozhu Dong, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Francois Llirbat, Eric Simon, Jianwen Su, Gang Zhou.
• Declarative workflow system supporting side-effects. United States Patent 6,424,948. Issued on 7/23/02. Guozhu Dong, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Jianwen Su, and Gang Zhou.