Hui Fang

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
 The Ohio State University

783 Dreese Lab
2015 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

Email: hfang AT cse.ohio-state.edu
Phone: (614) 292-7027
Fax: (614) 292-2911

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Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. I received my M.S. and Ph.D degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2001.
Research
I have a broad interest in all kinds of real world applications that are related to effectively and efficiently managing large amount of text information. My primary research interest is information retrieval. I am also interested in bioinformatics, data mining and databases.
Teaching
Professional Services
  • Faculty Advisor, ACM-W at OSU
  • Program Committee, SIGIR 2008
  • Program Committee, CIKM 2008
  • Program Committee, ICML 2008
  • Program Committee, WWW 2008
  • Program Committee, ECIR 2008
  • Program Committee, AIRS 2008
  • Program Committee, IJCNLP 2008
  • Program Committee, OCCBIO 2008
  • Reviewer, ACM Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Information Processing & Management, Information Processing Letters(IPL)
Publications

Selected Publications:

  • Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "A Study of Methods for Negative Relevance Feedback". To appear in the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008. (SIGIR'08) (17% acceptance)

  • Hui Fang. "A Re-examination of Query Expansion Using Lexical Resources". To appear in the 46th Annual Meetings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2008. (ACL'08)(25% acceptance)

  • Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "Improve Retrieval Accuracy for Difficult Queries using Negative Feedback". In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management, pages 991-994, 2007. (CIKM'07) (short paper, 26% acceptance) (pdf)

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "A Study of Poisson Query Generation Model for Information Retrieval". In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 319-326, 2007. (SIGIR'07) (18% acceptance) (pdf)

  • Bin Tan, Atulya Velivelli, Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "Term Feedback for Information Retrieval with Language Models". In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 263-270, 2007. (SIGIR'07) (18% acceptance) (pdf)

  • Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "Probabilistic Models for Expert Finding". In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval, pages 418-430, 2007. (ECIR'07) (19% acceptance) ([pdf])

  • Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "Semantic Term Matching in Axiomatic Approaches to Information Retrieval". In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 115-122, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2006. (SIGIR'06) (19% acceptance) ([pdf])

  • Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "An Exploration of Axiomatic Approaches to Information Retrieval". In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 480-487, Salvador, Brazil, 2005. (SIGIR'05) (19% acceptance) ([pdf])

  • Hui Fang, Tao Tao and ChengXiang Zhai. "A Formal Study of Information Retrieval Heuristics". In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 49-56, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2004. (SIGIR'04) (22% acceptance, Best Paper Award) ([pdf], [slides])

  • Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai, Xinghua Lu and Hui Fang. "A Study of Statistical Methods for Function Prediction of Protein Motifs". Applied Bioinformatics, Volume 3, No. 2-3, pages 115-124,2004. (Applied Bioinformatics) ([pdf])

Other Publications:

  • Hui Fang, Lixin Zhou and ChengXiang Zhai. "Language Models for Expert Finding - UIUC TREC 2006 Enterprise Track Experiments". To appear in Proceedings of the 2006 Text REtrieval Conference, 2007. (TREC'06 )

  • Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "An Axiomatic Approach to IR - UIUC TREC 2005 Robust Track Experiments". In Proceedings of the 2005 Text REtrieval Conference, 2006. (TREC'05) ([pdf])

  • Bin Tan, Atulya Velivelli, Hui Fang and ChengXiang Zhai. "Interactive Construction of Query Language Models - UIUC TREC 2005 HARD Track Experiments". In Proceedings of the 2005 Text REtrieval Conference, 2006. (TREC'05) ([pdf])

  • ChengXiang Zhai, Xinghua Lu, Xu Ling, Xin He, Atulya Velivelli, Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang and Azadeh Shakery. "UIUC/MUSC at TREC 2005 Genomics Track". In Proceedings of the 2005 Text REtrieval Conference, 2006. (TREC'05) ([pdf])

  • Hui Fang, Lei Liu and ChengXiang Zhai. "Subspace Clustering for Microarray Data Analysis: Multiple Criteria and Significance Assessment". In 12th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, poster, 2004. (ISMB'04)

  • ChengXiang Zhai, Tao Tao, Hui Fang and Zhidi Shang. "Improving the Robustness of Language Models - UIUC TREC 2003 Robust and Genomics Experiments". In Proceedings of the 2003 Text REtrieval Conference, pages 667-672, 2004. (TREC'03) ([pdf])


Last updated: Nov. 5, 2007