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Zhiyun Ren. |
| Ph.D. student |
| Department of Computer Science |
| George Mason University |
| Tel: (703) 973-8521 |
| Email: zren4 [AT] gmu [DOT] edu |
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| To see my CV, please click here |
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Education
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- 2014-present Ph.D. in Computer Science, George Mason University
- 2010 - 2013
M.S in Engineering, Beihang University - 2006 - 2010 B.S in Engineering, Dalian University of Technology
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Research
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- Research interests: My research interests include Machine Learning, Data Mining, Recommender System, and related Application Development.
- Related Projects
- Document Recommendation for Photoshop User (Adobe Research)
- Grade Prediction with Additive Latent Effect (GMU)
- Grade Prediction with Sequential Information (GMU)
- Performance Prediction in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Assessments (GMU)
- Past Projects
- 09/2011 - 01/2013. Text Detection from Complex Images and Color Documents
- 04/2012 - 07/2012. Text Extraction based on Strokes Features
- 03/2011 - 08/2011. Video Text Detection and Recognition
- 10/2009 - 06/2010. Face Recognition based on RBF Neural Network
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Publications
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- Zhiyun Ren, Xia Ning, Huzefa Rangwala. "ALE: Additive Latent Effect Models for Grade Prediction". SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2018, (SDM 2018)
- Zhiyun Ren, Xia Ning, Huzefa Rangwala. "Grade Prediction with Temporal Course-wise Influence". International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2017, (EDM 2017)
- Zhiyun Ren, Huzefa Rangwala, Aditya Johri. "Predicting Performance on MOOC Assessments using Multi-Regression Models". International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2016, (EDM 2016)
- Asmaa Elbadrawy, Agoritsa Polyzou, Zhiyun Ren, Mackenzie Sweeney,George Karypis, Huzefa Rangwala. "Predicting Student Performance Using Personalized Analytics". Computer 49.4 (2016): 61-69
- Zhiyun Ren, Linlin Huang. "A Fast and Accurate Text Detection Method from Complex Images". The 11th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP' 2012), Beijing, China, 2012, 1144-1148