Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 386-3807
Office: 384 Niewuland Science Hall
Email: bshi@nd.edu
Homepage: https://github.com/bxshi

Research Interest

Heterogeneous network analysis, knowledge graph, fact validation, link
prediction.

Education

  • Ph.D. student at University of Notre Dame, Present.
  • Advisor: Tim Weninger.
    • B.S. Software Engineering, Nankai University, 2013.

Professional Experience

University of Notre Dame, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • Research Assistant, Tim Weninger, August 2013 – Present.

  • Teaching Assistant, Web Science and Information Retrieval
    (CSE40497), Tim Weninger, Spring 2016

  • Teaching Assistant, Database Concepts (CSE30246), Tim Weninger, Fall
    2015

  • Teaching Assistant, Operating System Principles (CSE30341),
    Christian Poellabauer, Spring 2014

  • Teaching Assistant, Mobile Computing (CSE60814), Christian
    Poellabauer, Fall 2013.

Nankai University, College of Software

  • Research Assistant, Xudong Li, August 2010 –May 2011.

Xinmei 365 Co., Ltd, Beijing

  • Software Development Engineer, September 2012 –Jun 2013

Research

Publications

  1. Shi B., and Tim W. Fact Checking in Heterogeneous Information Networks, in World Wide Web (WWW), (Montreal, Canada, 2016).

  2. Shi B., and Tim W. Scalable Models for Computing Hierarchies in Information Networks, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2016, 1-31.

  3. Shi B., and Tim W. Mining Interesting Meta-Paths from Complex Heterogeneous Information Networks, in Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW), (Shenzhen, China, 2014),
    488–495

  4. Zhang C., Shi B., and Li X. MFS: A Lightweight Block-Level Local Mirror of Remote File System, Journal of Software, 8 (6). 1459-1470.

Paper Under Review or Revision

  1. Shi B., and Tim W. Forward Backward Similarity Search in Information Networks. Submitted to TKDE.

  2. Shi B., and Tim W. Fact Checking in Knowledge Graphs: A Discriminative Meta-Path Mining Approach. Submitted to KNOSYS.

Work in Progress

  1. Shi B., and Tim W. Fact Validation with Entity Projection.

Software

  • KGMiner, multi-threaded knowledge graph mining software written in C++ (2015). GitHub repo.

  • FBPPR, forward-backward similarity search tool in Spark and C++ (2015).

  • HDTM, GraphLab based C++ program for personalized hierarchical document topic modeling on large graphs (2014). GitHub repo.

  • MFS, user space network filesystem implementation using FUSE and C (2013). GitHub repo.

  • BrainBurst, generic, turn-based game server written in Node.js (2013).

Conference Presentations

  • 5th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR), Chicago, April 27, 2016.

  • 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Montreal,
    Canada, April 11-15, 2016.

  • 14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Shenzhen,
    China, December 14-17, 2014.

Professional Activities

Reviewer of ICML’15, NIPS’15, KDD’15’16, ICDM’15, WSDM’15, CIKM’15, IJCAI’15’16, RCIS’14, AAAI’16

Awards

  • Dean’s Scholarship, Nankai University, 2009–2013.

  • Excellent Student Leader, Nankai University, 2010–20111.

  • Outstanding Volunteer, 2011.

Miscellaneous

  • Programming Languages: C/C++, R, Python, Scala

  • Experience: Linux, Distributed system, Multi-threading programming, Vertex programming, Machine learning