Xiaoli Zhang Fern Assisstant Professor School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University xfern@eecs.oregonstate.edu http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~xfern/

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
B.S. - Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electrical Engineering, 1997
M.S. - Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electrical Engineering, 2000
Ph.D. - Purdue University in Computer Engineering, 2005

APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, Computer Science, Sept. 2005–present.

PUBLICATIONS
Xiaoli Z. Fern and Carla Brodley, “Random Projection for High dimensional data clustering: A cluster ensemble approach”, In Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2003.
Xiaoli Z. Fern and Carla Brodley, “Solving cluster ensemble problems by bipartite graph partitioning”, In Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2004.
Xiaoli Z. Fern, “High Dimensional Data Clustering and Correlation Pattern Analysis”, Ph.D. dissertation, Purdue University, Aug. 2005
Xiaoli Z. Fern, Carla Brodley and Mark Friedl, “Correlation clustering for learning mixture of canonical correlation models”, In Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2005
Xiaoli Z. Fern and Carla Brodley, “Boosting lazy decision trees”, In Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2003.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

• Faculty member of Oregon State University IGERT Ecosystem Informatics Program, 2005 – present.
• Conference reviewer: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), International conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).
• Journal reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Machine Learning.