Huan Liu is a Chinese-born computer scientist.

Education and teaching career

Liu studied computer science and engineering at

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU; ) is a public research university in Shanghai, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university was established on April 8, 1896 as Nanyang Public School (南洋� ...

, and specialized in computer science while completing his master's and doctoral degrees at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

. Liu began his teaching career in the 1990s at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

, and joined the

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

faculty in 2000.

Honors

Liu was named a fellow of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 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 operation ...

(IEEE) in 2012 for his contributions to

feature selection In machine learning and statistics, feature selection, also known as variable selection, attribute selection or variable subset selection, is the process of selecting a subset of relevant features (variables, predictors) for use in model construc ...

in data mining and

knowledge Knowledge can be defined as awareness of facts or as practical skills, and may also refer to familiarity with objects or situations. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional knowledge, is often defined as true belief that is distinc ...

discovery. He was elected as an

ACM Fellow ACM or A.C.M. may refer to: Aviation * AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile * Air chief marshal * Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting * Air cycle machine * Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia Computing ...

in 2018 for "contributions in feature selection for data mining and knowledge discovery and in social computing".

Publications

Books

* Liu H, Motoda H. ''Feature selection for knowledge discovery and data mining''. Springer Science & Business Media; 1998 *Liu H, Motoda H, editors. ''Computational methods of feature selection''. CRC Press; 2007 *Liu, Huan, and Hiroshi Motoda. ''Instance Selection and Construction for Data Mining''. New York: Springer, 2011. *Liu, Huan, John J. Salerno, and Michael J. Young.eds. ''Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction''. New York: Springer, 2011. Liu, Huan, and Zheng Alan Zhao. Spectral Feature Selection for Data Mining. Taylor & Francis2020.

Most cited articles

*Liu H, Yu L. Toward integrating feature selection algorithms for classification and clustering. '' IEEE Transactions on knowledge and data engineering''. 2005 Mar 7;17(4):491-502. (Cited 3157 times, according to

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) *Yu L, Liu H. Feature selection for high-dimensional data: A fast correlation-based filter solution. In ''Proceedings of the 20th international conference on machine learning (ICML-03)'' 2003 (pp. 856-863) (Cited 2796 times, according to Google Scholar. ) *Dash, Manoranjan, and Huan Liu. "Feature selection for classification." Intelligent data analysis 1, no. 1-4 (1997): 131-156. (Cited 4224 times, according to Google Scholar. ) *Yu L, Liu H. Efficient feature selection via analysis of relevance and redundancy. The ''

Journal of Machine Learning Research The ''Journal of Machine Learning Research'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering machine learning. It was established in 2000 and the first editor-in-chief was Leslie Kaelbling. The current editors-in-chief are Francis Ba ...

''. 2004 Dec 1;5:1205-24. (Cited 2344 times, according to Google Scholar. ) *Shu K, Sliva A, Wang S, Tang J, Liu H. Fake news detection on social media: A data mining perspective. ''ACM SIGKDD explorations newsletter''. 2017 Sep 1;19(1):22-36. (Cited 1486 times, according to Google Scholar. )

References

Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people 1958 births Chinese computer scientists Chinese expatriates in the United States Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni National University of Singapore faculty University of Southern California alumni Chinese expatriates in Singapore {{China-engineer-stub