Tao Li, Associate Professor
Dr. Tao Li

Tao Li, PhD

School of Computer Science
Florida International University
ECS 318
11200 SW 8th Street
Miami, FL 33199, U.S.A.

Phone: (305) 348-6036
Fax: (305) 348-3549
Email: taoli AT cs.fiu.edu
URL: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~taoli

Short Biography

Dr Tao Li is currently an associate professor in the School of Computer Science, Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester in 2004. (My old homepage at Rochester).  (CV)


My Research

Dr Tao Li's research explores two related topics on learning from data---how to efficiently discover useful patterns and how to effectively retrieve information. The interests lie broadly in data mining and machine learning studying both the algorithmic and application issues. The algorithmic aspects involve developing new scalable, efficient and interactive algorithms that can handle very large databases. The underlying techniques studied include clustering, classification, semi-supervised learning, similarity and temporal pattern discovery. The application issues focus on actual implementation and usage of the algorithms on a variety of real applications with different characteristics including bioinformatics, text mining, music information retrieval and event mining for computer system management.

Awards

  • NSF Career Award, 2006-2011
  • Excellence in Student Mentoring Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, 2009
  • Excellence in Research Award, Florida International University, 2009
  • Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, Florida International University, 2008
  • IBM Faculty Award, 2005, 2007 & 2008
  • IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award, 2005
  • Xerox University Affairs Committee (UAC) Award, 2005-2008
  • Excellence in Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, 2005

Current  Research Projects

Research Publications

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Professional Service


Teaching

Meeting Time: Tuesday and Thursday:  5:00pm -- 6:15pm

Meeting Room: ECS 134

Meeting Time: Thursday: 6:25pm -- 9:05pm

Meeting Room: TBA

Postdoc Research Associate

Ph.D. Students (graduated and current)

  • David Kaiser (Ph.D., defended in Nov., 2007)

    • Director of Institutional Research, Miami-Dade College
  • Wei Peng (Ph.D. defended in March, 2008)

    • Research scientist,  Xerox Research
    • FIU Presidential Fellowship 2003-2005
    • The Best Graduate Student Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2006)
    • Excellence Award, School of Computer Science, 2006-07.
    • Summer Intern at Xerox Research, 2006
    • Summer Intern at Xerox Research, 2007
    • Outstanding PhD Graduate, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University (2008)
  • Bo Shao (Fall 2005 - Current)

    • Summer Intern at IBM Almaden Research Center, 2006
    • Summer Intern at IBM Autonomic Computing, 2007
  • Dingding Wang (Fall 2006 -- Current)

    • Summer Intern at NEC Research, 2007
    • Summer Intern at NEC Research, 2008
    • Excellence Award, School of Computer Science, 2007-08
    • The Best Graduate Student Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2008)
    • Summer Intern at NEC Research, 2009
  • Yi Zhang  (Fall 2007 -- Current)

  • Xin Wang (Fall 2008 -- Current)

Visiting Ph.D. Students

  • Fei Wang (June 2007 - July 2007)

    • Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, P. R. China
  • Zhongyuan Zhang (November 2007 - December 2007)

    •  Institute of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China


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