Luo Si 

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Department of Statistics(by courtesy)
Purdue University

Email: lsi@cs.purdue.edu

Mail Address:  Purdue University
Department of Computer Science
250 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2066

Research Interest:

Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, Machine Learning, Intelligent Tutoring, Text/Data Mining for Life Science, Speech and Multimedia Processing, Natural Language Processing. My Research has been supported by National Science Foundation, State of Indiana and Purdue University.

I am actively looking for motivated graduate students with good solid machine learning, statistics or mathematics backgrounds to do information retrieval, machine learning and bioinformatics research (beginning in Fall or Spring semesters). Please send me emails.

Awards:

NSF Career AwardCareer Award, 2008

Engagement Award, College of Science, Purdue University, 2009

Success for Seed Award, Purdue University, 2009

 

Some Research Projects:

 

An Integrated and Utility-Centric Framework for Federated Text Search, National Science Foundation Career Award

(Search beyond traditional engines such as Google, Yahoo! or MSN)  WebSite

 

Expertise Search, State of Indiana (Co-PI with Prof. Aditya Mathur)

(Search for Brains!) WebSite

 

Integrating Computer Science Technique to Teach Mathematical Word Problems, NSF (PI with Prof. YanPing Xin)

(Teach math word problem solving with intelligent computer systems)  WebSite

 

Other Projects

 

Research Publications: Publications

Teaching 

Spring 2010, CS690   Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval, Course WebSite

Fall 2009, CS490W   Web Information Search and Management, Course WebSite

Spring 2009, CS590I   Information Retrieval, Course WebSite

Fall 2008, CS490W   Web Information Search and Management, Course WebSite

Spring 2008, CS590M  Graphical Models for Machine Learning, Course WebSite

Fall 2007, CS490W  Web Information System, Course WebSite

Spring 2007, CS690I  Research Topics Information Retrieval, Course WebSite

Fall 2006, CS590I  Information Retrieval, Course WebSite

 
Education Background:

2000 – May 2006:  Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University.   Under the Supervision of Professor Jamie Callan

2000 – 2002:  M.S., Carnegie Mellon University

1998 – 2000:  M.S., Tsinghua University, China

1993 – 1998:  B.S.,  Tsinghua University, China

Services:

Area Chair/Senior Program Committee: ACM Int’l Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2009rieval (SIGIR), 2009

Area Chair/Senior Program Committee: ACM Int’l Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2008

Track Chair: amily: Arial; font-size: 11pt">Track Chair: ACM Conference on Information Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008

Program Committee,  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2008

Program Committee, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2008

Program Committee,  International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), 2008

Senior Program Committee: ACM Int’l Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2007

Area Co-Chairs for the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), 2008

Program Committee, ACM Int’l Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2005-2006

Program CommittIEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM), 2007

Program Committee, Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL), 2007l Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL), 2007
Program Committee, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2006
 

Panelist/Reviewer:

National Science Foundation, Organisation for Science Research (NWO), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Hong Kong Research Council, Lousiana Board of Regents, 
Journal of Information Retrieval,  ACM Transaction on Database Systems (TODS), 
ACM Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS), ACM Transaction on the Webs(TWEB),  ransaction on the Webs (TWEB),   (TOIS), ACM Transaction on the Webs (TWEB),  ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Machine Learning Journal, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics,
ACM SIGIR (Information Retrieval), ACM SIGCHI (Computer and Human Interface), International Conference of Machine Learning, ACM SIGKDD 
(Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Information Processing & Management, ACM CIKM (Information Knowledge Management),
Asian Information Retrieval Symposium, European Information Retrieval, International Conference on Web Intelligence, SuperComputing