Knowledge Discovery Laboratory

Computer Science Department
UMASS Boston.

About KDLab

Knowledge Discovery Laboratory (KDLab) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMass Boston) is directed by Dr. Wei Ding. It is located at the 3rd floor of the McCormack Hall room 0136 MC.


Research Agenda

The main areas of research of the KDLab are on data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational semantics, and with applications to health sciences, astronomy, geosciences, and environmental sciences.

Hot Topics

Sep 2, 2022 2022 Fall - Yong Zhuang as the first author published Widening the Time Horizon: Predicting the Long-Term Behavior of Chaotic Systems with Matthew Almeida, Wei Ding, Patrick D Flynn, Shafiqul Islam, and Ping Chen in The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
Jul 19, 2022 2022 Summer - Chengjie Zheng as the first author published “TimeCLR: A Contrastive Learning Based Framework for Video Classification” with Shiqian Shen, Wei Ding, Ping Chen in proceedings of The 35th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
May 1, 2022 2022 Spring - Olga Andreeva as the first author published “Fall risk assessment through a synergistic multi-source DNN learning model” with Wei Ding, Suzanne G. Leveille, Yurun Cai, and Ping Chen in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 127 (2022)
Apr 19, 2022 2022 Spring - Olga Andreeva as the first author published “Maximizing Fairness in Deep Neural Networks via Mode Connectivity” with Matthew Almeida, Wei Ding, Scott E. Crouter, and Ping Chen in IEEE Intelligent Systems 01 (2022)
Apr 17, 2022 2022 Summer - Kevin M Amaral and Zihan Li published “SummerTime: Variable-length Time Series Summarization with Applications to Physical Activity Analysis” with Wei Ding, Scott Crouter, Ping Chen in proceedings of ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.
Aug 24, 2020 2020 Summer - Olga Andreeva as the first author published “Catalysis Clustering with GAN by Incorporating Domain Knowledge” with Shiqian Shen, Wei Ding, Ping Chen in proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining.
Jun 1, 2019 2019 Summer - Dr. Wei Ding present, on leave, serving as Program Director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systmes (IIS), National Science Foundation
Mar 1, 2019 2019 Spring, Dr. Wei Ding received WISAY Distinguished Woman in Science Award, Yale University
Sep 1, 2018 2018 Fall, Dr. Wei Ding received the Outstanding Alumni Award, Computer Science Department, University of Houston
Jun 1, 2018 2018 Summer, WINS hosted the Tech-Savvy Camp by Dr. Wei Ding
Mar 1, 2018 2018 Spring, Dr. Wei Ding received AI for Earth Award
Jun 1, 2017 2017 Summer, Dr. Wei Ding received NSF PI Award, EAGER: Advanced Machine Learning Techniques to Discover Disease Subtypes in Cancer.
Mar 1, 2016 2016 Spring, Dr. Wei Ding received NIH PI Award, R01, Novel Approaches for Predicting Free-Living Physical Activities in Youth has been selected for funding.

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