Kathy Lee

Kathy Lee

Ph.D. Student
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University

Email: kathy dot lee at eecs dot northwestern dot edu

CV: [pdf]




Research Interests


Data Mining, Healthcare Data Analysis, Social Network Data Analysis, Data-Intensive High Performance Computing.


Project Website


  • Allergy
  • Cancer
  • Flu
  • Pulse Of The Tweeters

  • Publications


    1. Kathy Lee, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary: Mining Social Media Streams to Improve Public Health Allergy Surveillance inProceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015 (PDF) [bib]

      @inproceedings{Lee:2015:MSM:2808797.2808896,
                author = {Lee, Kathy and Agrawal, Ankit and Choudhary, Alok},
                title = {Mining Social Media Streams to Improve Public Health Allergy Surveillance},
                booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015},
                series = {ASONAM '15},
                year = {2015},
                location = {Paris, France},
                pages = {815--822},
                organization = {ACM},
                keywords = {Allergy, Public Health, Social Media, Twitter}
              }

    2. Hongyu Gao, Yi Yang, Kai Bu, Yan Chen, Doug Downey, Kathy Lee, and Alok Choudhary: Spam Ain't As Diverse As It Seems: Throttling OSN Spam With Templates Underneath. In the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 2014.(PDF) [bib]

      @inproceedings{Gao:2014:SAD:2664243.2664251,
                author = {Gao, Hongyu and Yang, Yi and Bu, Kai and Chen, Yan and Downey, Doug and Lee, Kathy and Choudhary, Alok},
                title = {Spam Ain'T As Diverse As It Seems: Throttling OSN Spam with Templates Underneath},
                booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference},
                series = {ACSAC '14},
                year = {2014},
                location = {New Orleans, Louisiana, USA},
                pages = {76--85},
                organization = {ACM},
                keywords = {online social networks, spam, spam campaigns}
              }

    3. Kathy Lee, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary: Real-Time Disease Surveillance using Twitter Data: Demonstration on Flu and Cancer in Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), August 2013. (PDF) [bib]

      @inproceedings{LAC13b,
      	  author = {Lee, Kathy and Agrawal, Ankit and Choudhary, Alok},
      	  title = {Real-Time Disease Surveillance using Twitter Data: Demonstration on Flu and Cancer},
      	  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining},
      	  series = {KDD '13},
      	  year = {2013},
      	  location = {Chicago, Illinois, USA},
      	  pages = {1474--1477},
      	  organization = {ACM},
      	  keywords = {cancer, disease detection, disease surveillance, epidemics, influenza, public health, social media, twitter}
      	}

    4. Kathy Lee, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary: Real-Time Digital Flu Surveillance using Twitter Data. DMMH workshop at SDM 2013(SDM-DMMH), May 2013. (PDF) [bib]

      @inproceedings{LAC13a,
      	  author = {Lee, Kathy and Agrawal, Ankit and Choudhary, Alok},
      	  title = {Real-Time Digital Flu Surveillance using Twitter Data},
      	  booktitle = {Proceedings of the SDM Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare (SDM-DMMH)},
      	  series = {SDM-DMMH 2013},
      	  pages = {19-27},
      	  year = {2013},
      	  location = {Austin, Texas, USA}
      	}

    5. Diana Palsetia, Md Mostofa Ali Patwary, Kunpeng Zhang, Kathy Lee, Christopher Moran, Yusheng Xie, Daniel Honbo, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary. User-Interest Based Community Extraction in Social Networks. In the Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis, held in conjunction with the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2012. (pdf)

    6. Alok Choudhary, William Hendrix, Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia, and Wei-keng Liao. Social Media Evolution of The Egyptian Revolution. Communications of the ACM, 55(5):74-80, ACM, New York, NY, USA, May 2012. (pdf) [bib]

      @inproceedings{CHL12,
      	  author = {Choudhary, Alok and Hendrix, William and Lee, Kathy and Palsetia, Diana and Liao, Wei-Keng},
      	  title = {Social media evolution of the Egyptian revolution},
      	  journal = {Communications of the ACM},
      	  issue_date = {May 2012},
      	  publisher = {ACM}
      	}

    7. Hongyu Gao, Yan Chen, Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia, and Alok Choudhary. Towards Online Spam Filtering in Social Networks. In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, February 2012. (pdf) [bib]

      @inproceedings{GCL12,
      	  author = {Gao, Hongyu and Chen, Yan and Lee, Kathy and Palsetia, Diana and Choudhary, Alok},
      	  title = {Towards Online Spam Filtering in Social Networks},
      	  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium},
      	  location = {San Diego, CA, USA},
      	  year = {2012},
      	  keywords = { online-social-networks, security, spam}}
      	}

    8. Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia, Md Mostofa Ali Patwary, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, and Ramanathan Narayanan. Twitter Trending Topic Classification. In the Workshop on Optimization Based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December 2011. (PDF) (Presentation Slides) [bib]

      @inproceedings{Lee2011,
      	  author = {Lee, Kathy and Palsetia, Diana and Narayanan, Ramanathan and Patwary, Md. Mostofa Ali and Agrawal, Ankit and Choudhary, Alok},
      	  title = {Twitter Trending Topic Classification},
      	  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops},
      	  series = {ICDMW '11},
      	  isbn = {978-0-7695-4409-0},
      	  pages = {251--258},
      	  year = {2011},
      	  doi = {10.1109/ICDMW.2011.171},
      	  acmid = {2119627},
      	  keywords = {Social Networks, Twitter, Topic Classification}
      	}

    9. Kunpeng Zhang, Yu Cheng, Yusheng Xie, Ankit Agrawal, Diana Palsetia, Kathy Lee, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary. SES: Sentiment Elicitation System for Social Media Data. In the Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December 2011. (pdf) [bib]

      @inproceedings{ZCX11,
      	  author = {Zhang, Kunpeng and Cheng, Yu and Xie, Yusheng and Honbo, Daniel and Agrawal, Ankit and Palsetia, Diana and Lee, Kathy and Liao, Wei-keng and Choudhary, Alok},
      	  title = {SES: Sentiment Elicitation System for Social Media Data},
      	  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops},
      	  series = {ICDMW '11},
      	  isbn = {978-0-7695-4409-0},
      	  pages = {129--136},
      	  year = {2011},
      	  doi = {10.1109/ICDMW.2011.153},
      	  acmid = {2119596},
      	  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
      	  keywords = {Social media, sentiment, rule, machine learning}
      	}