Dr. SUN Aixin is an Associate Professor with
School of Computer Engineering (SCE), Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), Singapore. He
received B.A.Sc (1st class honours) and Ph.D. from the same school in
2001 and 2004 respectively. He was a Postdoc Fellow with School of
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at University of New South
Wales (UNSW), Australia.
Aixin's research interests include Information Retrieval, Text/Web
Mining, Social Computing, Multimedia, and Digital Libraries. His papers appear in major international conferences and journals
in the related areas including SIGIR, WSDM,
Multimedia, CIKM, JCDL, ICDM, TKDE, DSS, JASIST, and
IP&M. Aixin has been a PC member of many data
mining/information retrieval conferences including SIGIR, KDD, CIKM,
Multimedia, WSDM, and reviewer for journals and IEEE/ACM
transactions. He is a member of the SONAR (SOcial aNAlytics Research) group at DISCO lab.
Professional Services
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PC Member: KDD'13, CIKM ('06, '13), SIGIR (Paper track '09-'10,
Poster/Short paper track '09-'13), ACM Multimedia'12, WSDM'12, PAKDD ('06 - '12), APWeb'12, AIRS ('05, '08, '11, '12), ADMA ('11 - '12), JCDL'10, WI ('09, '10, '13), DEXA ('09 - '13)
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Publicity Co-Chair: ADMA'12
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Publications Co-Chair:
SocInfo'11
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Tutorial Co-Chair: ICADL'11
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Local Arrangement Co-chair:
IEEE APSCC'09
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Session Chair: ADMA'12, PAKDD'11,
CIKM-CNIKM'09, IEEE APSCC'09, ICADL'07
Recent Publications
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Where, When and What: Discover Spatio-Temporal Topics
for Twitter Users. Quan Yuan, Gao Cong, Zongyang Ma, Aixin
Sun, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. In Proc. of 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(KDD'13). Chicago, USA. Aug 2013 [Acceptance rate: 17.4%]
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Exploiting Hybrid Contexts for Tweet Segmentation. Chenliang Li, Aixin
Sun, Jianshu Weng, Qi He. In Proc. of 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
(SIGIR'13). Dublin Ireland. July 2013 [Full paper, Acceptance rate: 19.9%]
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Time-aware Point-of-interest Recommendation. Quan Yuan, Gao Cong, Zongyang Ma, Aixin
Sun, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. In Proc. of 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
(SIGIR'13). Dublin Ireland. July 2013 [Full paper, Acceptance rate: 19.9%]
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Affinity-driven blog cascade analysis and prediction. Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin
Sun, Jiangtao Cui. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
(DMKD). 2013 [Accepted, IF: 1.545]
- MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data. Ba Quan Truong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Curtis Dyreson, and Aixin
Sun. In Proc. of ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD'13), New York City, New York, USA. June 2013
- CREST: Cluster-based Representation Enrichment for Short Text Classification. Zichao Dai, Aixin
Sun, and Xu-Ying Liu. In Proc. of 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'13). Gold Coast, Australia. Apr 2013.
- CINEMA: Conformity-Aware Greedy Algorithm for Influence Maximization in Online Social Networks. Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin
Sun. In Proc. of 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT’13), Genoa, Italy. Mar 2013 [Acceptance rate: 20.6%]
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On Predicting Popularity of Newly Emerging Hashtags in Twitter. Zongyang Ma, Aixin
Sun, Gao Cong. Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(JASIST). 2012 [Accepted, IF: 2.113]
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TSDW: Two-Stage Word Sense Disambiguation Using Wikipedia. Chenliang Li, Aixin
Sun, Anwitaman Datta. Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(JASIST). 2012 [Accepted, IF: 2.113]
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Topic-Driven Reader Comments Summarization. Zongyang Ma, Aixin
Sun, Quan Yuan, and Gao Cong. In Proc. of ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM'12). Pages 265 -- 274. Maui, Hawaii, USA. Oct 2012 [Full paper, Acceptance Rate: 13.4% PDF]
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Twevent: Segment-based Event Detection from Tweets. Chenliang Li, Aixin
Sun, and Anwitaman Datta. In Proc. of ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM'12). Pages 155 -- 164. Maui, Hawaii, USA. Oct 2012 [Full paper, Acceptance Rate: 13.4% PDF]
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TwiNER:
Unsupervised Named Entity Recognition in Targeted Twitter
Stream. Chenliang Li, Jianshu Weng, Qi He, Yuxia Yao,
Anwitaman Datta, Aixin
Sun, and Bu-Sung Lee. In Proc. of ACM SIGIR Conference
(SIGIR'12). Pages 721 -- 730. Portland,
Oregon, USA. Aug 2012 [Acceptance Rate: 20%, PDF]
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Category
Hierarchy Maintenance: A Data-Driven Approach. Quan Yuan,
Gao Cong, Aixin
Sun, Chin-Yew Lin, Nadia M. Thalmann. In Proc. of ACM SIGIR
Conference (SIGIR'12). Pages 791 -- 800.
Portland, Oregon, USA. Aug 2012 [Acceptance Rate: 20%, PDF]
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Will This
#Hashtag Be Popular Tomorrow? Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, and Gao Cong. In
Proc. of ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'12). Pages 1173 -- 1174. Portland, Oregon, USA. Aug
2012 [Poster, PDF]
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Short Text
Classification Using Very Few Words. Aixin Sun. In Proc. of ACM
SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'12). Pages 1145 -- 1146. Portland, Oregon, USA. Aug
2012 [Poster, PDF]
Administration Services
- Deputy Director, Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISCO) Lab, Oct 2008 -- Sep
2013. DISCO Lab is formerly known as Centre for Advanced Information Systems (CAIS).
- Member, Student Outreach Committee, July 2008 -- Nov 2012