Xiaolin Shi

Theory Group in Computer Science
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan

Email: shixl [at] umich [dot] edu
Tel: +1 734 274 0125
Office: Room 3944, Computer Science and Engineering Building

Introduction

I am a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan. I received a Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan in 2006, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2004.

My research interests are in social networks, especially in information dynamics of complex networks and statistical analysis and graph modeling on network structures. My advisors are Lada A. Adamic in School of Information and Martin J. Strauss in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Dept. of Mathematics. For the summers of 2006 and 2007, I workd as a research intern in the group of Information Analysis and Management, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., under the supervision of Dr. Belle L. Tseng.

Education

  • Ph. D Candidate (05/2006 - present)

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

  • Master of Science in Engineering (09/2004 - 05/2006)

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

  • Bachelor of Engineering (09/2000 - 06/2004)

Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, P. R. China.

  • International Exchange Student (01/2003 - 08/2003)

Department of Computer Science and Information System, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Publications

  1. Xiaolin Shi, Belle Tseng, Lada Adamic. Information Diffusion in Computer Science Citation Networks. Submitted.
  2. Xiaolin Shi, Matthew Bonner, Lada A. Adamic and Anna C. Gilbert. The very small world of the well-connected. The Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 2008.(Best paper award)
  3. Lada A. Adamic, Suresh K. Bhavnani, Xiaolin Shi. Scatter Networks: A New Approach for Analyzing Information Scatter on the Web. New Journal of Physics,Volume 9, 17 July 2007.
  4. Xiaolin Shi, Belle Tseng, Lada A. Adamic. Looking at the blogosphere topology through different lenses. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2007.
  5. Xiaolin Shi, Lada A. Adamic and Martin Strauss. Networks of Strong Ties. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its
    Applications
    , Volume 378, Issue 1, 1 May 2007, pp. 33-47.
  6. Yu-Ru Lin, Wen-Yen Chen, Xiaolin Shi, Richard Sia, Xiaodan Song, Yun Chi, Koji Hino, Hari Sundaram, Jun Tatemura and Belle Tseng. The Splog Detection Task and A Solution Based on Temporal and Link Properties. The 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC?006).

Positions Held

  • Graduate student research assistant (09/2004 - present)

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

  • Graduate student instructor (01/2006 - 04/2006)

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

  • Undergraduate student research assistant (09/2003 - 06/2004)

Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, P. R. China.

  • Undergraduate summer intern (06/2003 - 08/2003)

Department of Computer Science and Information System, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Industry Experience:

  • Research Intern (06/2008 - 09/2008)

Web Search and Minging Group, Microsoft Research Asia

  • Research Intern (05/2007 - 08/2007)

Information Analysis and Management, NEC Labs America

  • Research Intern (06/2006 - 08/2006)

Information Analysis and Management, NEC Labs America