Hong Cheng

Hong Cheng

Assistant Professor
　
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Room 707, William M. W. Mong Engineering Building
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong

Email: hcheng at se.cuhk.edu.hk

Short Biography

Hong Cheng is an Assistant Professor in Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. Before that, she received her M.Phil. degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003, and B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2001.

Research Interests: Data mining, machine learning and database systems

News: Postdoc position available in data mining or database area

Publications

Teaching

SEEM4630: E-Commerce Data Mining (2012-2013 First Term)

Honors and Awards

Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award 2010, CUHK
Exemplary Teaching Award 2010, Faculty of Engineering, CUHK
Best Paper Award, 2010 Australasian Database Conference
Finalist for SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2009
IBM PhD Scholarship, 2007-2008
Best Student Paper Award, Proc. of 2007 IEEE ICDE Conference
Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award, Proc. of 2006 ACM SIGKDD Conference
Data Mining Research Silver Award, Data Mining Group at UIUC 2006
Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award, Proc. of 2005 ACM SIGKDD Conference
Ministry of Education Fellowship, Ministry of Education, China & HKUST 2001

Patent

System and Method for Graph Classification with Skewed Class Distribution
by Hong Cheng, Xifeng Yan, Wei Fan and Philip S. Yu.
US patent filed as Docket YOR8-2007-0684-US1 by IBM, Dec., 2007