Research - Presidential Chair Professor

Chris H.Q. Ding 丁宏强

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Presidential Chair Professor

Education Background:

2007 - 2020, University of Texas, Professor
1996 - 2007, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
1993 - 1996, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1987 - 1993, California Institute of Technology
1987 - Ph.D. Columbia University
1984 - M.Phil. Columbia University
1983 - M.A. Columbia University
1981 - BSc. Anhui University

chrisding@cuhk.edu.cn

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Highlights. The Columbia Parallel Computer that Chris Ding help built as part of his Ph.D. thesis was featured as cover story of SCIENCE (see left picture). At Caltech, his work on Monte Carlo simulation on high temperature superconductors was highly praised by NATURE Editor-in-Chief John Maddox. Proved that Google's PageRank is nearly identical to ranking by in-degree -- your website is valuable and informative because many other webpages pointing to it.

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Machine Learning, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Information Retrieval, Web Link Analysis, High Performance Computing

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At Lawrence Berkeley Lab, we proved that Google's PageRank is essentially identical to ranking by in-degree (the number of webpages pointing to the website). We proposed in 2006 the L12 norm which is widely used in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, computational biology.