XU, Linchuan (许林川)
Research Assistant Professor

Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

PQ813, Mong Man Wai Building, PolyU
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

E-mail: linch.xu (at) polyu.edu.hk
Tel: (852) 2766 7276
Fax: (852) 2774 0842

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Biography

I am currently a research assistant professor with Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Prior to that, I was a post-doctoral researcher with Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan, under the supervision of Professor Kenji Yamanishi, from August 2018 to June 2020. I received the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from Department of Computing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, under the supervision of Professor Jiannong Cao, in 2018. From 2015 to 2016, I visited BDSC lab led by Professor Philip S. Yu in University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.


Research Interest

Keywords: Big Data Analytics, Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, Network Analysis.

My research interest lies primarily in big data analytics with emphasis on health/medical applications and network applications. Real-world systems are complex systems, such as health systems and social systems. To understand how complex systems work and to spot misfunctions of complex systems, one of the most effective ways is to observe and analyze the data generated by complex systems. My research aims to develop computational methods to perform data analytical tasks. In particular, I design data mining and machine learning models to analyze big data that feature unstructured format, heterogeneous modalities, time-varying sequences, etc. Moreover, I incorporate domain knowledge about the complex system under study into the design of the models. I have demonstrated my research in many applications, such as estimating the severity of glaucoma, categorizing the participants of networks, inferring potential interactions among participants, and detecting novel events happening to the systems underlying networks.


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Hobbies

Badminton, basketball, photography, travelling, and anime