Dianwei Han, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
    Northwestern University

    Tech Inst. Room L460
    2145 Sheridan Road
    Evanston, IL 60208-3118
   

contact information:

Email: dianweih@eecs.northwestern.edu
    (847) 467 5854 (Office)
    (847) 467 1492 (Fax)

 Short Bio

Dr. Dianwei Han received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science Department from University of Kentucky in 2012. Dr. Han joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University from March 2015. Before joining Northwestern University, Dr. Han worked at Yahoo! Champaign, IL from 2012 to 2014 as a Senior Engineer, working on designing and implementing a powerful and efficient global distributed platform that is used for ultra-large scale data collection, transfer, and delivery in both streaming and batch modes.
 

Research

Big data analysis;

Scalable data mining;

Modeling and simulation in bioinformatics;

Specific Projects:

amiRNA design

The secondary structure prediction of pre-miRNA


 

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

    • Shuting Xu, Jun Zhang, Dianwei Han, and Jie wang. Singular value decomposition based data distortion strategy  for privacy  protection. Knowledge and Information Systems, Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 2006) pages: 383 - 397
    • Dianwei Han, Guiliang Tang, and Jun Zhang, MicroRNAfold: pre-microRNA secondary structure prediction based on Modified NCM model with thermodynamics-based scoring strategy, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (2012), Vol.6, No. 3, pages: 272-291.
    • Dianwei Han, Guiliang Tang, and Jun Zhang, A Parallel Strategy for Predicting the Secondary Structure of  Polycistronic MicroRNAs, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Application (2013), Vol. 9, No.2, pages: 134-155.

    Conference Publications

    • Dianwei Han. Problem decomposition and Task distribution based on Distributed Expert System. In proceedings of Fourth Chinese Conference on AI. Beijing, 1996.
    • Shuting Xu, Ju Zhang, Dianwei Han, Jie wang. Data Distortion for Privacy Protection in a Terrorism  Analysis System In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005), pp. 459-464, Atlanta, GA. 2005.
    • Jie wang, Jun Zhang, Lian liu, Dianwei Han. Simultaneous Pattern and Data Hiding in Unsupervised Learning.  In proceedings of ICDM Workshops 2007, pp. 729-734, 2007. USA.
    • Dianwei Han and  Jun Zhang. A Comparison of Two Algorithms for predicting the Condition Number.  In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'07), pp. 223-228, Cincinnati, OH, 2007.
    • Dianwei Han, Shuting Xu, and Jun Zhang. An Online condition number query system. In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '08), Auburn AL, March 2008, pp. 264-267.
    • Dianwei Han, Shuting Xu, and Jun Zhang. The relationship between the features of sparse matrix and the matrix solving status. In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '08), Auburn AL, March 2008, pp. 501-506.
    • Dianwei Han, Guiliang Tang, and Jun Zhang. A novel method for microRNA secondary structure prediction using a bottom-up algorithm, In Proceedings of the 47th Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '09),  Clemson, SC, USA. March 19-21, 2009, 6 pages
    • Dianwei Han, Guiliang Tang, and Jun Zhang, A parallel algorithm for predicting the secondary structure of polycistronic microRNAs, In proceedings of  Ninth IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2010),   Washington, D.C., December 2010, pp. 509- 514.