- Published multiple books including 'Lifelong and Continual Learning Dialogue Systems' (2024), 'Lifelong Machine Learning' (Second Edition, 2018), 'Sentiment Analysis: Mining Opinions, Sentiments, and Emotions' (2020), 'Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining' (2012), 'Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents & Usage Data' (Second Edition, 2011)
- Published numerous papers and interviewed in Nature Outlook
Research Experience
- Chair, SIGKDD (7/1/2013 - 6/30/2017)
- PC Chairs: KDD, ICDM, SDM, WSDM, CIKM
- Editorial Board, DMKD, TWEB, TKDE, TKDD
Background
- Research Interests: Lifelong and continual learning, autonomous AI and open world learning, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, machine learning, NLP, and data mining
- Titles: Distinguished Professor, Peter L. and Deborah K. Wexler Professor of Computing
- Department: Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: His research spans from sentiment analysis to autonomous learning