Dr. Qin Ding

Penn State Harrisburg Campus
Middletown, PA 17057
717-948-6636
qding@psu.edu

AREA OF CONCENTRATION & EXPERTISE

  • Database
  • Data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Artificial Intelligence, expert systems, machine learning, decision support systems
  • Bioinformatics
  • Image processing, GIS

EDUCATION

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  • Database systems
  • Data mining (association rule mining, classification, clustering) on large datasets
  • GIS and Spatial data mining
  • Database concurrency control
  • Expert systems and decision support systems
  • Management information systems (MIS)
  • DNA Microarray data analysis

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    2002 - present  Associate Professor of Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University Middletown, PA
      Major Subjects:
      • Database Design
      • Advanced topics on Database Management System
      • Principles of Programming Languages

    1991 - 1998 Computer Science and Engineering, Hohai University Nanjing China
      Major Subjects:
      • Database Systems
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Compiling Techniques
      • Programming Languages
      • Algorithm Design and Analysis

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

1992 - 1995   Senior SoftwareEngineer and Project Manager ( part-time) Dongfang Computer Company Nanjing, China
    Developed MIS systems including:
    • Financial Account Management System
    • Import and Export Trade Management System

PUBLICATIONS

  • "PINE - Podium Incremental Neighbor Evaluator for Classifying Spatial Data", William Perrizo, Qin Ding, Anne Denton, Kirk Scott, Qiang Ding, and Maleq Khan, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Melbourne, FL, March 2003, pp. 503-508.


  • "Association Rule Mining on Remotely Sensed Images Using P-trees", Qin Ding, Qiang Ding, and William Perrizo, Proceedings of PAKDD 2002, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2336, May 2002, pp. 66-79.


  • "K-nearest Neighbor Classification on Spatial Data Stream Using P-trees", Maleq Khan, Qin Ding, and William Perrizo, Proceedings of PAKDD 2002, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2336, May 2002, pp. 517-528.


  • "The P-tree Algebra", Qin Ding, Maleq Khan, Amalendu Roy, and William Perrizo, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Madrid, Spain, March 2002, pp. 426-431.


  • "Decision Tree Classification of Spatial Data Streams Using Peano Count Trees", Qiang Ding, Qin Ding, and William Perrizo, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Madrid, Spain, March 2002, pp. 413-417.


  • "Lazy Classifiers Using P-trees", William Perrizo, Qin Ding, and Anne Denton, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2002, pp. 176-179.


  • "Efficient Hierarchical Clustering of Large Data Sets Using P-trees", Anne Denton, Qiang Ding, William Perrizo, and Qin Ding, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2002, pp. 138-141.


  • "On Mining Satellite and Other Remotely Sensed Images", William Perrizo, Qin Ding, Qiang Ding, and Amalendu Roy, Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Santa Barbara, California, May 2001, pp. 33-40.


  • "Deriving High Confidence Rules from Spatial Data using Peano Count Trees", William Perrizo, Qin Ding, Qiang Ding, and Amalendu Roy, Proceedings of International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2118, July2001, pp. 91-102.


  • "Using Active Networks in Parallel Mining of Association Rules", Qin Ding and William Perrizo, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 2000, pp. 58-61.


  • "Data Mining Applications on Large RSI data", Qin Ding, William Perrizo, Kaushik Das, and Qinghua Zou, IFIP Congress 2000, August 2000.


  • "Fast Approach for Association Rule Mining on Remotely Sensed Imagery", Qinghua Zou, Qin Ding, and William Perrizo, Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2000, pp. 98-101.


  • "The Application of Association Rule Mining to Remotely Sensed Data", Jianning Dong, William Perrizo, Qin Ding, and Jingkai Zhou, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Como, Italy, March 2000, pp 340-345.


  • "Using Neural Networks for Clustering on RSI data and Related Spatial Data", Kaushik Das, William Perrizo, and Qin Ding, Proceeding of International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 2000, pp. 111-116.


  • "DLOTS: A Distributed Level Ordered Transaction Scheduler", Qinghua Zou, Kirk Scott, Qin Ding, and William Perrizo, Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2000.


  • "Reposting Algorithms for Request Order Concurrency Control", Shian Zhang, William Perrizo, and Qin Ding, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 2000, pp. 161-164.


  • "Level Ordered Transaction Scheduler (LOTS) for Concurrency Control", Qinghua Zou, William Perrizo, and Qin Ding, Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2000, pp. 88-91.


  • "Multiversion Post Ordering: A New Concurrency Control Method", Tanya Jane, William Perrizo, and Qin Ding, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 2000, pp. 9-12.



AFFILIATIONS

  • Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Management of data (SIGMOD)
  • Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discover in Data and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
  • Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)
  • Member of International Society of Computers and Their Applications
  • Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

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