Yiling YANG

Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Monte de Caparica
2829-516, Caparica
Portugal

Tel: +351 212948300 ext 10764 (Room: P2/45)
Fax: +351 212948541
Email: yiling.yang(at)di.fct.unl.pt
Web: http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~yang

Research Interest

Data mining, Web mining, Data warehousing, User profile modeling
Applications of data mining and techniques to Web, auction data, e-commerce, CRM, financial market, stock market, etc.
Software engineering

Education

Ph. D. Sep. 2002
- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong Tong University
- Computer Software and Theory
- Thesis Title: Web Usage Mining for Intelligent Web Site
M. Sc. Jul. 1999
- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiao Tong University
- Computer Software and Theory
- Thesis Title: Data Preparation and Browsing Pattern Recognition in Web Log Mining
B. Sc. Jul. 1996
- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiao Tong University
- Computer Software and Theory
- Thesis Title: A Quality Information Management System Based on C/S Architecture

Publications

International Journals

Xudong Guan, Yiling Yang, Jinyuan You. Typing evolving ambients. Info. Proc. Letters, 80(5):265-270, 2001, Elsevier.

National Journals
- Yiling Yang, Xudong Guan, Jinyuan You. Improving the interestingness of web usage mining. Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (English version). June 2002.
- Yiling Yang, Xudong Guan, Jinyuan You. Mining the frequently visited page groups based on the content of HTML pages and the site topology. Chinese Journal of Software. March 2002.
- Xudong Guan, Yiling Yang, Jinyuan You. Further control on the grave interference in mobile ambients. Chinese J. Software, 2002.
- Yiling Yang, Xudong Guan, Lina Lu, Jinyuan You. Frame filtering in the data preprocessing of Web usage mining. Computer Engineering (China).27(2): 76-77, 2001.
- Yiling Yang, Xudong Guan, Jinyuan You. SWLMS: A small Web log mining system. Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. 34(7):932-935, 2000.
- Yiling Yang, Huanzhao Wang, Xudong Guan. Development of GUI Application under X Window System with Tcl/Tk. Microellectronics & Computer. Jan. 1998.
International Conferences

Yiling Yang, Nuno Marques. User Group Profile Modeling based on User Transactional Data for Personalized Systems. EKDB&W workshop at EPIA 2005.
Yiling Yang, Xudong Guan, Jinyuan You. CLOPE: A Fast and Effective Clustering Algorithm forTransactional Data. ACM SIGKDD '02, July 23-26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (student scholarship award paper)
Yiling Yang, Xudong Guan, Lina Lu, Jinyuan You. Frame filtering in the data preprocessing of Web usage mining. Proc. Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Information Processing, pp. 507-511, Beijing, China, Aug. 2000.
Xudong Guan, Yiling Yang, Jinyuan You. Making ambients more robust. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Software: Theory and Practice, pp.377-384, Beijing, China, Aug. 2000.
Yiling Yang, Xudong Guan, Jinyuan You. Enhanced algorithm for mining frequently visited page groups. In Proc. ICDCS'2000 Workshops, pp. F54-F57 , Taipei, Taiwan, April, 2000.
Xudong Guan, Yiling Yang, Jinyuan You. POM - A mobile agent security model against malicious hosts. In Proc. HPC-Asia'2000, pp.1165-1166, Beijing, China, May 2000.

Others
- User profile modeling based on user transactional data for personalized tourism system. Ongoing paper. 2005

Work Experiences

Sep. 2004 - Mar. 2005 Computer Science Department of Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- User profile modeling and application on web information extraction system
Sep. 2002 - Feb. 2003 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Shanghai Branch
- Participated in the requirement analysis and top-level design of CCRM (Corporation Customer Relationship Management) project of ICBC
- Leader of the back-end team of CCRM
- Proposed the schema of the data warehouse in CCRM
Sep. 1997 - Dec. 1997 KarInfo Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China)
- Participated in upgrading the intelligent card products of KarInfo
- Assisted in hardware circuit modifications and MSC-52 programming
- RS232 programming for communication between PC and MSC-52

Development Experiences

Dec. 2003 - Feb. 2004 (Antibes, France) Mini e-commerce web site -- Eshop
- Administration interface (http://yyl.dyndsl.com/eshop/admin/index.py, temporarily closed)
- Client interface (http://yyl.dyndsl.com/eshop/client/index.py, temporarily closed)
- Python 2.3
Sep. 2002 - Feb. 2003 (Shanghai, China) CCRM project, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Shanghai Branch

Leader of the back-end team of CCRM (Corporation Customer Relationship Management)
Responsible for requirement analysis and top-level design
Windows NT, SAS 8.0

May 2000 - May 2001 (Shanghai, China) IBMS project, Kantor Corp.

DB schema designer of IBMS (Intelligent Building Management System)
Solaris 7, Orbix 3.0, Oracle 8.0

May 1998 - Jul. 1998 (Xi'an, China) Human Resource Management project, Hainan Petrochemical Corp.

Designer and programmer of HRM
Windows NT, Oracle 7.0, PowerBuilder 4.0

Sep. 1997 - Dec. 1997 (Guangdong, China) Intelligent Card project, KarInfo Co. Ltd.

Communication programmer and project assistant
Windows, Ansi C, MSC-52

Nov. 1996 - Aug. 1997 (Xi'an, China) Real-time Flight Data Process System

Designer and programmer of the data preparation and collection module
SCO OpenServer V5.0, Ansi C, Tcl/Tk

Mar. 1996 - Dec. 1996 (Xianyan, China) MIS of Irico Power Factory

Designer and programmer of the Computer Aided Quality Management module
Windows, Novell NetWare V3.11, Sysbase SQL Server V10.0, PB 4.0

Skills

Programming languages: C/ C++, Java, Python, HTML(CSS, Javascript), SQL, Tcl/Tk, PowerBuilder, Pascal
Operating systems: Unix/Linux, DOS, Windows
Software/tools: SAS, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, dreamwaver, frontpage, ErWin, gcc, Visual C++, Emacs/Vi, Apache Web Server

Languages

Chinese: mother tongue
English: good in reading ,writing, listening, and speaking.
French: learning
Portuguese: learning

Honors

National Excellent Student Award, 2000, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xinxing Scholarship, 1998, Xi'an Jiao Tong University
Second Award of Excellent Student, 1996, Xi'an Jiao Tong University
College Scholarship, 1995, Xi'an Jiao Tong University
College Scholarship, 1994, Xi'an Jiao Tong University
College Scholarship, 1993, Xi'an Jiao Tong University