Hui Yang
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator
Graduate Coordinator
Graduate Advisor
Contact Information
Phone: (415) 338-2221
Email: huiyang@sfsu.edu
Building: Thornton Hall
Room Number: 966
Office hours will be posted on the respective iLearn page and held through Zoom. Please contact the office if you are unable to find instructions for office hours for a particular class.
Advising Hours
Wednesday: 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvdOmorzouEteJ874ieF4Y4DvopnA_iO-o
Areas of Expertise
- Data Mining
- Text Mining and Information Extraction with a Current Focus in Biomedical Application
- Protein Structure Analysis
Awards
- GE Predix Challenge Grant, $10,000, 2017
- Collaborative research project with IBM Almaden on annotating and extracting entities and relationships in biomedical articles. January 2013-February 2014. Budget: $20,000.
- Collaborative research project with Genentech on curating bio-entities and software testing and quality assessment. October 2011—June 2012. Budget: $10,000.
Publications
- A Systematic study of eleven feature selection algorithms and their impact on the text classification task, Suchi Vora** and Hui Yang. IEEE Computing Conference 2017, July 18-20, 2017, London.
- Two Simple and Effective Ensemble Classifiers for Twitter Sentiment Analysis. Yeqing Yan**, Hui Yang, and Hui-ming Wang. IEEE Computing Conference 2017, July 18-20, 2017, London.
- A Multifaceted Data Mining Approach to Understanding What Factors Lead College Students to Persist and Graduate, Aparna Gopalakrishnan**, Hui Yang, Celia Graterol, Rama Kassed, Mary Beth Love, and Alycia Shada. IEEE Computing Conference 2017, July 18-20, 2017, London.
- "Structuring unstructured clinical narratives in OpenMRS with medical concept extraction," Ryan M. Eshleman*, Hui Yang and Barry Levine. In the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM2015) (industrial track). November 2015, Washington DC.
Website
Dr. Yang Website