Ji ZHANG, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Computingl(D215) &
Principal Advisor for Research, Division of ICT Services

The University of Southern Queensland (USQ),
Toowoomba, QLD, Australia 4350
Email: Ji.Zhang (at) usq.edu.au
Telephone: +61 7 4631 5539
Fax: +61 7 4631 5550
Web: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/zhangj/

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Dr. Ji Zhang is currently a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American Universities) in the Department of Mathematics and Computing, and the Principal Advisor for Research in Division of ICT Services, University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia. He received his degree of Ph.D. from the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, Canada in 2008, degree of M.Sc from Department of Computer Science at National University of Singapore in 2002 and degree of B.E from Department of Information Management and Information Systems at the Southeast University, China in 2000. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in CSIRO ICT Center at Hobart, Australia from 2008-2009. Dr. Zhang is currently a member of the Center of Systems Biology (CSBi) at USQ.

Research Interests	Grants	Awards & Achievements	Professional Activities
Teaching	Selected Publications	Invited Talks

Research Interests

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Databases, Bioinformatics, Information Privacy and Security

Research Grants

USQ Early Career Research Grant, USQ (2010-2011)
Startup Research Grant, Center of Systems Biology (CSBi), USQ (2009-2010)
Conference Travel Grant, Center of Systems Biology (CSBi), USQ (2009)
Conference Travel Grant, Dept. of Math & Computing, USQ (2009)

Awards & Achievements

Head of Department Award, Department of Math and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (2009).
CSIRO ICT Centre Non-cash Award, Australia (2008)
Izaak Walton Killam Pre-doctoral Scholarship, Canada (2007)
Student Travel Award, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), sponsored by IBM Research, Microsoft and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (2006)
Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarship, Dalhousie University (2006-2008)
Faculty Research Scholarship, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (2006-2008)
FGS Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, Dalhousie University (2006)
International Student Bursary Award, Dalhousie University (2006)
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (15 students from Canada), awarded by Ministry of Education, China (2005)
Graduate Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore (2000-2002)
Alumni Scholarship, Southeast University (1999)
First-Prize Scholarship for Outstanding Student (top 2%), Southeast University (1996-1999)
Academically Excellent Undergraduate Student (top 2%), Southeast University (1996-1999)

Professional Activities

Conference Chair

2010 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME2010), Publicity Chair, Golad Coast, Australia, 2010.
18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'06), Data Mining Session Chair, Washington D. C, USA, 2006.

International Program Committee Member

21th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'10), 2010.
11th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'10), 2010.
IADIS International Conference on Collaborative Technologies 2010.
20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'09), 2009.
International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07), 2007.
Dalhousie Computer Science In-House Conference (DCSI'07), 2007
Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA'07), 2007.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07), 2007.

Paper Reviewers

Journal of Computers (JCP), 2009.
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2009.
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, an International Journal (DMKD), 2008-2009.
Computational Intelligence, 2008.
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2007.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2007.
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing, 2007.
Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA'07), 2007.
Knowledge Management International Conference & Exhibition (KMICE'06), 2006.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'05), 2005
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'04), 2004.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 2002.
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'02), 2002.
ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP'02), 2002.

Teaching

CSC3400: Database Systems (S1, 2010)
CSC1402: Foundation Computing (S3, 2009)
CSC2408: Software Development Tools (S3, 2009)
CSC3419: XML and the Web (S2, 2009)
CSC8409: XML and Semantic Web Service (S2, 2009)

Selected Publications (click here for the full publication list)

Ji Zhang, Qigang Gao, Hai Wang and Hua Wang. Detecting Anomalies from High-dimensional Wireless Network Data Streams: A Case Study. Soft Computing, Springer Publishing, 2010. (Impact Factor: 0.984)

Ji Zhang, Stijn Dekeyser, Hua Wang and Yanfeng Shu. DISTRO: A System for Detecting Global Outliers from Distributed Data Streams with Privacy Protection. 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'10), Tsukuba, Japan, 2010. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Kai Xu, Rohan Williams, Seok-Hee Hong, Qing Liu, and Ji Zhang. Semi-Bipartite Graph Visualization for Gene Ontology Networks. 17th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'09), Chicago, USA, 2009. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang, Qigang Gao, Hai Wang, Qing Liu and Kai Xu. Detecting Projected Outliers in High-dimensional Data Streams. 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'09), Linz, Austria, 2009. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang, Qing Liu and Kai Xu. Gene Specific Co-regulation Discovery: An Improved Approach. 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCS'09), Baton Rouge, USA, 2009. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang, Qigang Gao and Hai Wang. Outlying Subspace Detection in High-dimensional Space.Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications (2nd Edition), Idea Group Publisher, 2009. (Book Chapter)

Ji Zhang, Qigang Gao and Hai Wang. Discover gene specific local co-regulations from time-course gene expression data. Scientific Programming, special issue on Bioinformatics, 16(1): 31-47, IOS Press, 2008. (Impact Factor: 0.342)

Athman Bouguettaya, Mark Hepburn, Qing Liu, Kai Xu and Ji Zhang. Bio-Sense: A System for Supporting Sharing and Exploration in Bioinformatics Using Semantic Web Services.4th IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience'08), IEEE Computer Society, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2008. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang, Qigang Gao and Hai Wang. SPOT: A System for Detecting Projected Outliers from High-dimensional Data Streams.24th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), IEEE Computer Society, Cancun, Mexico, 2008. (Tier A+ ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang, Han Liu, Tok Wang Ling, Robert M. Bruckner and A Min Tjoa. An Efficient Framework for Association Rule Mining in XML Data.Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, IGI-Global Publisher, 2008. (Book Chapter)

Ji Zhang and Hai Wang. Detecting Outlying Subspaces for High-dimensional Data: the New Task, Algorithms and Performance. Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS), Vol. 10, No.3, Pages 333-355, Springer-Verlag Publisher London, 2006. (Impact Factor: 1.733)

Ji Zhang, Han Liu, Tok Wang Ling, Robert M. Bruckner and A Min Tjoa. An Efficient Framework for Association Rule Mining in XML Data. Journal of Database Management (JDM), Vol. 17, No. 3, Idea Group Publisher, 2006. (Impact Factor: 2.000)

Ji Zhang, Qigang Gao and Hai Wang. A Novel Method for Detecting Outlying Subspaces in High-dimensional Databases Using Genetic Algorithm.2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06), IEEE Computer Society, Hong Kong, China, 2006. (Tier A+ ICT Conference) (One of best student papers, IEEE ICDM Student Travel Award!)

Ji Zhang, Wynne Hsu and Mong Li Lee. Clustering in Dynamic Spatial Databases. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 24(1): 5-27, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2005. (Impact Factor: 1.075)

Ji Zhang, Wei Wang, Han Liu and Sheng Zhang. X-Warehouse: Building Query Pattern-driven Data Warehouse.14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'05), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Chiba, Japan, 2005. (Tier A+ ICT Conference)

Sheng Zhang, Ji Zhang, Han Liu and Wei Wang. XAR-Miner: Efficient Association Rules Mining for XML Data.14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'05), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Chiba, Japan, 2005. (Tier A+ ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang and Han Liu. D-GridMST: Clustering Large Distributed Spatial Databases. Classification and Clustering for Knowledge Discovery, Springer-Verlag Publisher, 2005. (Book Chapter)

Ji Zhang, Meng Lou, Tok Wang Ling and Hai Wang. HOS-Miner: A System for Detecting Outlying Subspaces of High-dimensional Data.30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'04), Toronto, Canada, 2004. (Tier A+ ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang, TokWang Ling, Robert. M. Bruckner and Han Liu. PC-Filter: A Robust Filtering Technique for Duplicate Record Detection in Large Databases.15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'04), Zaragoza, Spain, 2004. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Ji Zhang, Tok Wang Ling, Robert M. Bruckner, A Min Tjoa and Han Liu. On Efficient and Effective Association Rule Mining in XML Data.15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'04), Zaragoza, Spain, 2004. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee and Ji Zhang. Image Mining: Trends and Developments.Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 19 (1): 7-23, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002.(Impact Factor: 1.075)

Ji Zhang, Wynne Hsu and Mong Li Lee. Image Mining: Issues, Frameworks and Techniques.2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD'01), in conjunction with 7th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'01), ACM Press, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2001. (One of best papers, invited for journal publication in JIIS!)

Ji Zhang, Wynne Hsu and Mong Li Lee. An Information-driven Framework for Image Mining.12th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'01), Munich, Germany, 2001. (Tier A ICT Conference)

Invited Talks

Grid-ODF: Detecting Outliers Effectively and Efficiently in Large Multi-dimensional Databases. Department of Educational Technology, Nanjing Normal University, China, 2005.