Yiye Ruan  阮一叶
    Email:    ruan at cse.ohio-state.edu
    Address: 395 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Avenue
                  Columbus, OH 43210

Research | Courses | Teaching | My Resume

News

  1. I will work as a research intern in Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) this summer.

  2. I am honored to serve in the Program Committee of CompleNet 2012 (http://2012.complenet.org/).

  3. I have finished my summer internship at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing. I worked on Trinity ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trinity/), which is both a graph computing platform and a graph database.

Who are you?

My name is Yiye Ruan. I'm a third year PhD student in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University. My advisor is Professor Srinivasan Parthasarathy.

Born in Shanghai, China, I have been living there until I started my undergraduate study in Beijing. In 2009 I graduated from Peking University, with B.Sc. in Intelligence Science and Technology (also known as Machine Intelligence) as well as B.Econ. (Double Major). My undergraduate research advisor is Professor Zhihong Deng.

What are you doing here?

Well, first I'm conducting research under the advice of Professor Srini. My immediate research interest are scalable graph mining algorithms, its various applications (for example, community discovery) as well as social network analysis.

Meanwhile, I also take courses to fulfill the PhD program's requirement. Upon the approval from the program committee, I would major in data mining and minor in artificial intelligence and statistics.

Finally, I serve as a graduate teaching assistant for the department. Duty for this role includes grading and lecturing. This quarter (Spring 2011), I am the instructor of CSE459.22 (Programming in C++).

Looks great! ... By the way, how do you read your name?

Well, I'm not 'Mr. Ian Ryan', although that somehow sounds like my name. The first name 'Yiye' sounds like 'E-Yeah'. Acceptable variants include 'Yey-yeh' or 'Yeh-yeh' (which, FYI, this sounds like 'grandpa' in Chinese). The last name Ruan is definitely harder to pronounce, but luckily you won't need to do that for most cases. :-)

Misc.

My friends have made a nickname for me: Ricardo Roberto Ruben, to remind me of the fact that I am unable to pronounce uvular fricative. :D

A nice 'newcomer guide' (written in Chinese) from Jin Teng, another CSE PhD student in OSU. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~tengj/tips.htm