Charles X. Ling, PhD (U Penn), Professor Director, Data Mining and Business Intelligence Lab IEEE Senior Member Summary: Charles X. Ling earned his BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ in China, and both of his MSc and PhD from Computer and Information Science at Univ of Pennsylvania within four years. Since then he has been a faculty member in Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (UWO). Charles aims at developing intelligences in computers and in children. He strives to answer the following interrelated questions: How to program computers to learn and improve automatically (machine learning), and how to apply machine learning to business, industries, and bioinformatics (data mining) How to make computers exhibit intelligent behaviors (cognitive science, AI) How to effectively teach children thinking strategies using research results from AI and cognitive science (child education)

Teaching in 2009: CS2209A, CS3346A, CS9860A.

Charles is an expert in data mining & machine learning, and their applications in Internet, business, Bioinformatics, etc

• Publications: Quick links to some recent papers: TKDE10, ICDM09, PAKDD09, ICML08, KDD08, ECML08. Overall he has published over 120 research papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals (most are downloadable). Also find his papers listed in DBLP here and here.
• He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), and Computational Intelligence Journal. Call for Papers: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), Special Issue on Machine Learning for Business Applications. He is also the PC co-Chair of AMDA'2008, Senior PC or Area Chair of ACM SIGKDD'09, ACML'09, PAKDD'08, ACM SIGKDD'07, PAKDD'07, and and PC member of major conferences in machine learning and data mining. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE, and Lifetime Member of AAAI.
• As the Director of Data Mining and Business Intelligence Lab at UWO, he is leading data mining research and projects (see a picture of his group) on CRM (Customer Relationship Management), direct marketing, search engine, action mining, Bioinformatics, and so on.
• He has extensive industrial experience with Microsoft Research, London Life of Canada, Sun Microsystems, Royal Bank of Canada, and so on. (Please contact him for more details as most of the work done was not published).

Always looking for creative ideas, enthusiastic collaborators, and/or diligent graduate students.

• Harry H. Zhang, PhD, 1999 - 2002 (3 years). Currently Associate Professor of Computer Science at U. of New Brunswick, Canada
• Robert Yan, PhD, 2003 - 2007 (4 years). Currently IT manager in a financial company in Canada
• Jin Huang, PhD, 2002 - 2006 (4 years). Currently a manager in an IT company in Canada
• Victor S. Sheng, PhD, 2004 - 2007 (3 years). Currently Ast Professor of Computer Science at U. of Central Arkansas, USA
• Jeff Taylor, Msc, 2002 - 2004 (2 years). Currently working in an IT company in Canada
• Jianning Wang, Msc, 2002 - 2004 (1.5 years). Currently working in an US IT company

Charles is also a specialist in child education

• He integrates his research in AI and cognitive science, and develops a full range of thinking strategies that improve children's intellectual abilities. These thinking strategies embrace, enhance, and connect with math, science, and other areas.
• He develops "Power Thinking with Dr. Ling", a video-based program that teaches thinking strategies to elementary-school students. The program has been approved by Curriculum Services Canada, and licensed in hundreds of elementary schools in Ontario, Canada.
• He presented an invited plenary speech at the International Conference on Cognitive Science. Title: Artificial Intelligence for Improving Children's Thinking. Download the position paper here (PDF). His other related publications can be found here).
• He published an audio book How to Teach Your Child to be Gifted (From Birth to Six Years Old) (ISBN: 0968428908), 1998.
• See media coverage of his work on child education.

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