Charles X. Ling (Chinese name: 凌晓峰) is a computer scientist who specializes in research on Data Mining and

Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

. He obtained his BSc from

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU; ) is a Public university, public research university in Shanghai, Shanghai, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China ...

in 1985, and PhD from

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1989. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Science Distinguished Research Professor, at the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thames R ...

, Canada. He has published over 150 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. He is a Senior member of

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...

. He is co-author of book Crafting Your Research Future - A Guide to Successful Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering. He also does research and development in child gifted education, deriving from his work on

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

and cognitive science.

Bibliography

IEEE Canada

References

Publisher website

External links

Charles X. Ling's academic website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ling, Charles X. Chinese computer scientists Senior Members of the IEEE University of Pennsylvania alumni Living people Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni