Fall 2009 Summary

  • Research
    • Dustin Bortner and Jiawei Han, "Progressive Clustering of Networks Using Structure-Connected Order of Traversal", Proc. 2010 Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'10), Long Beach, CA, March 2010.
    • Working on "Optimal k-Block Diagonalization of Activation-Response Matrix for Heterogeneous Network Clustering"
    • Working on "Local-Neighborhood Clustering and Analysis of Heterogeneous Information Networks"
  • Review Service
    • External Reviewer: TKDD 2009
  • Classes
    • CS 511 (Adv. Databases)
      • Project on advanced web search
      • Developed some application-oriented ideas for a new network paper about filtering out non-authentic blogs in searches
    • CS 476 (Program Verification)
      • Project: Model concurrent DB locking system and verify properties (simple eventual and compound linear temporal logic paths)
      • Became interested in systems modeling and how data mining can be integrated to refine models automatically
  • TA for CS 427 (Software Eng. I)
    • Includes biweekly meetings with student groups to discuss projects
  • Consulting
    • Rock Creek Group, LLC  (Wash, DC)