Yongli Ren PhD Candidate School of Information Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Burwood Campus, Deakin University, Australia Email: yonglitom@gmail.com
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Awards/Honors
- Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS), 2010.
- Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) Fellowship, 2011.
- Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'12), August 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
- IBM Award for Excellence, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University. 2013
- Publication Scholarship, School of IT, Deakin University. 2013
Research Interests
- Collaborative Filtering
- Recommender Systems
- Data Sparsity
- Temporal Data Mining
- Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Pattern Recognition
Publications
2013
- Tianqing Zhu, Yongli Ren, Wanlei Zhou, Jia Rong, Ping Xiong.An Effective Privacy Preserving Algorithm for Neighborhood-based Collaborative Filtering. Future Generation Computer Systems. (Accept on 02/08/2013) (ERA2010 Ranking A,JCR 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.033)
- Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Yongli Ren, Wanlei Zhou, and Ping Xiong. Privacy Preserving for Tagging Recommender Systems. In Proceedings of The 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2013. (ERA2010 ranking A Conference)
- Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Jun Zhang and Wanlei Zhou. AdaM: Adaptive-Maximum Imputation for Neighborhood-based Collaborative Filtering. The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013), Full Paper. ( acceptance rate 13%)
- Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Yongli Ren, Wanlei Zhou and Ping Xiong. Differential Privacy for Neighborhood-based Collaborative Filtering. The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013), Full Paper. (acceptance rate 13%)
- Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. A Learning Method for Top-N Recommendations with Incomplete Data. Social Network Analysis and Mining. Accepted on 09/02/2013. (Peer-reviewed Invited Paper)
- Yongli Ren, Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. In proceedings of the 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), pp. 390-401, 2013. (ERA2010 ranking A Conference)
2012
- Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Jun Zhang, Wanlei Zhou. Lazy Collaborative Filtering for Datasets with Missing Values. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics. Accepted on 25/11/2012. (ERA2010 ranking A Journal) (JCR 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.337)
- Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. Learning User Preference Patterns for Top-N Recommendations. In Proceedings of The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, (WI), pp. 137-144, 2012. (ERA2010 ranking A Conference)
- Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Jun Zhang, Wanlei Zhou. The Efficient Imputation Method for Neighbourhood-based Collaborative Filtering. In the proceedings of The 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 684-693, 2012. (ERA2010 ranking A Conference) (acceptance rate 13.4%)
- Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou, Learning Rating Patterns for Top-N Recommendations. 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2012, pp.472-479.(acceptance rate 16%) (Best Paper Award)
- Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. Improving Top-N Recommendations with User Consuming Profiles. In proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), pp.887-890, 2012
- Yangdong Ye, Yongli Ren, Gang Li. Using Local Density Information to Improve IB Algorithms. Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 32, Issue 2, 310-320, 2011. (ERA Ranking B) (JCR 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.724)
2009
- Jinlong Wang, Ke Gao, Yongli Ren, Gang Li: Journal ranking based on social information. ACM JCDL 2009: 453-454
- Yongli Ren, Yu-Hsn Liu, Jia Rong, Robert Dew: Clustering Interval-valued Data Using an Overlapped Interval Divergence. AusDM09.
- Yu-Hsn Liu, Yongli Ren, Robert Dew: Monetising User Generated Content Using Data Mining Techniques. AusDM09.
- Yongli Ren: The Density-based Information Bottleneck. Master by Research Thesis, ZhengZhou University, China, 2009. All the five examiners gave HD(high distinction), and it has been evaluated as the excellent essay in our department, the only one got this award.
2008
- Yongli Ren, Yangdong Ye, Gang Li: The Density-based Agglomerative Information Bottleneck. In Proceeding of the Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), pp. 333-344, 2008.
- Yongli Ren, Yangdong Ye, Gang Li: The Density Connectivity Information Bottleneck. In proceedings of 9th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS2008), p.1783-1788
- Sam Schmidt, Peter Vuillermin, Bernard Jenner, Yongli Ren, Gang Li and Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen: Mining Medical Data: Bridging the Knowledge Divide. In Proceedings of eResearch Australasia 2008 (eResearch Australasia 2008), Lesley Wyborn and Patricia McMillan, Melbourne, Australia, 28 September - 3 October 2008.
Academic Experience
Projects:
- Research Associate of a Healthcare-related project, Emotion Recognition, supervised by Dr. Linda Byrne, School of Psychology, Deakin University, 2011.
- Investigator of an National Natural Science Foundation of China project under grant No. 60773048 with title “Research on IB algorithm and application”.
Selected Service:
- Publicity Chair in The 13th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW) in Benidorm, Spain, June 2014. (ERA2010 ranking B Conference)
PC Members:
- The 3nd International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics (SOTICS) 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.
- The 2nd International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics (SOTICS) 2012, Venice, Italy.
- The 1st International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics (SOTICS) 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
- The 2011 International Conference on Database Theory and Application (DTA) 2011, Jeju Island, Korea.
- The 18th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (ENTER 2010), Innsbruck, Austria.
- The 13th International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA) Conference(2009), Marrakech, Morocco.