Xiaoxin Yin

One Microsoft Way
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

My research interests include

• Web Search Quality
• Link Analysis and Its Application on Web Search
• Multi-relational Data Mining

Publications

Theses:

• 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)
• M.S. Thesis: CrossMine: Efficient Classification Across Multiple Database Relation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dec, 2003.

Journal Papers and Book Chapters:

• 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)
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu. "CrossClus: User-Guided Multi-Relational Clustering", in the journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI), Springer.
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Jiong Yang, Philip S. Yu. "Efficient Classification across Multiple Database Relations: A CrossMine Approach", in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 18(6): 770-783, June 2006.
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Jiong Yang, and Philip S. Yu. "CrossMine: Efficient Classification across Multiple Database Relations", in Constraint-based mining and inductive databases, Jean-Francois Boulicaut, Luc de Raedt, Heikki Mannila (eds.), Springer 2005.

Conference Papers:

• 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)
• 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)
• 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) (Slides)
• 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) (Slides)
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu. "LinkClus: Efficient Clustering via Heterogeneous Semantic Links", in 32nd Int'l. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'06), Seoul, Korea, Aug 2006. (Slides)
• Xiaoxin Yin, William Yurcik, Adam, Slagell, “VisFlowCluster-IP: Connectivity-Based Visual Clustering of Network Hosts”, in 21st IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC’06), Karlstad, Sweden, May 2006.
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han. "Efficient Classification from Multiple Heterogeneous Databases", in 9th European Conf. on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'05), Porto, Portugal, Oct 2005.
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu. "Cross-Relational Clustering with User's Guidance", in 11th Int'l. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'05), Chicago, IL, Aug 2005. (Slides)
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Jiong Yang. "Searching for Related Objects in Relational Databases", in 17th Int'l. Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conf. (SSDBM'05), Santa Barbara, CA, June 2005.
• Sandeep Uttamchandani, Xiaoxin Yin, John Palmer, Gul Agha. "MonitorMining: A Gray-box Approach for Creating Domain Knowledge in Automation of the Observe-Analyze-Act Loop", in 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2005), Nice, France, May 2005.
• Xiaolei Li, Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin, and Dong Xin. "Mining Evolving Customer-Product Relationships in Multi-Dimensional Space", in 21st Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'05), Tokyo, Japan, April 2005. (poster paper)
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han, Jiong Yang, and Philip S. Yu, "CrossMine: Efficient Classification across Multiple Database Relations", in 20th Int'l. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'04), Boston, MA, March 2004. (Slides)
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han. "CPAR: Classification based on Predictive Association Rules" in 3rd SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'03), San Francisco, CA, May 2003. (poster paper)
• Xiaoyan Zhu, Xiaoxin Yin. "A New Textual/Non-textual Classifier for Document Skew Correction", in 16th Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02), Quebec, Canada, Aug, 2002.

Conference Tutorials:

• 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.
• Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin, and Philip S. Yu, "Exploring the Power of Links in Data Mining", Tutorial for Proc. 2007 Int. Conf. on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'07), Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 2007.

Full list of publications (out of date)

Download Research Tools

TruthFinder: Truth Discovery with Multiple Conflicting Information Providers on the Web

LinkClus: LinkClus: Efficient Clustering via Heterogeneous Semantic Links

CrossMine: CrossMine: Efficient Classification across Multiple Database Relations

CPAR: CPAR: Classification based on Predictive Association Rules

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.