Associate Professor
Hood College
401 Rosemont Ave
Frederick, Maryland 21701
Email: liu@hood.edu
Phone: 301-696-3981

Research Disciplines:

• Computational Geography
• GIS
• Modeling and Simulation
• Sociology/Social Studies
• Statistics

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Informatics, Social Networks, Community Characteristics, Data Science, High-performance Computing

View Xinlian's CV

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Biographical Sketch

I am interested in applying Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning skills to large data set to extract information/features/community characteristics. I worked on interdisciplinary projects to introduce advanced mathematics and computer science tools and techniques to new research domains. I am familiar with medical data and approved to conduct human subject research by multiple federal and private agencies. I am a Fulbright Scholar in Data Science.

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Education

• B.S. Computer Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1993
• Ph.D. Computer Science, Louisiana State University, 2002

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Other Research

1. Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, construction of sixteenth century social networks, with Chris Warren (CMU) and David Walling (TACC)
2. Geospatial studies of population clustering and community characteristics, with Shaowen Wang (UIUC) and Anand Padmanabhan (NCSA)
3. Molecular Structural Learning, with Silvia Crivelli and Rafael Zamora (LBNL)
4. Computer Aided Diagnosis through Deep Learning of Biomedical Images, with Yanling Liu (FNLCR)
5. Veteran Healthcare with a focus in Suicide Risk Management, with a team of researchers across eight national labs as well as multiple VA medical centers.

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