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Redmond, WA 98052
xyin (at)1microsoft1(dot)1com

I am a researcher in the Internet Services Research Center of Microsoft Research. My current work is focused on applied research on web search.

I received my Ph.D. degree in May 2007 from the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I was a member of Data Mining Research Group, and my Ph.D. advisor is Prof. Jiawei Han. I graduated from Tsinghua University in 2001 with a B.E. degree in Computer Science, and I received M.S. degree from UIUC in 2003.

Research backgrounds: My research is mainly focused on Web search quality and Web search task analysis, link analysis, and multi-relational data mining

Professional Activities:

Prgram committee: KDD (2010), VLDB (2010), ICDE (2010, 2009), ICDM (2009), 2009 KDD Dissertation Award

Recent publications

• Yossi Azar, Iftah Gamzu and Xiaoxin Yin. Multiple Intents Re-Ranking. To appear in STOC 2009.
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu. "Truth Discovery with Multiple Conflicting Information Providers on the Web. IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering". 20(6): 796-808 (2008)
• Yizhou Sun, Tianyi Wu, Zhijun Yin, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin, Peixiang Zhao. "BibNetMiner: mining bibliographic information networks". In 2008 ACM SIGMOD Conference, June 2008. (Demo)
• Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin and Philip S. Yu,"Exploring the Power of Links in Scalable Data Analysis", ICDE'08 conference tutorial, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han. "Exploring the Power of Heuristics and Links in Multi-relational Data Mining". In 17th Int’l. Symp. Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), May 2008. (Invited paper)
• Ph.D. Thesis: Scalable Mining and Link Analysis Across Multiple Database Relations. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. May, 2007. (Recipient of the 2008 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award)
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu. "CrossClus: User-Guided Multi-Relational Clustering", in the journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI), 15(3):321-348, 2007.
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu. "Truth Discovery with Multiple Conflicting Information Providers on the Web." in 13th Int’l. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’07), San Jose, CA, Aug 2007. (short paper)
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu. "Object Distinction: Distinguishing Objects with Identical Names by Link Analysis", in 23rd Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. (short paper) 

Complete list of publications 

Old software downloads

These softwares were developed in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please use them only for education and research purposes. No warranty of any type is provided for the softwares, data, and source code listed below.

• TruthFinder: a tool for computing the confidence of structured information and truthfulness of information providers.
• CrossMine: an efficient and accurate approach for classification in multi-relational databases.
  Relational Dataset Generator: a relational dataset generator for relational classification, which has been used by CrossMine.

Miscellaneous

I play badminton in my spare time, although I am bad at it.

I enjoy taking photos to memorize the precious moments of life. Here is my gallery.