Hong Cheng 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

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Short Biography

Hong Cheng is a 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

Publications

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

• Structural Data Classification
  by Hong Cheng, Wei Fan, Xifeng Yan and Philip S. Yu.
  United States Patent 8121967, Appl. No.: 12/141,251