Lei Li
CONTACT INFORMATION
 	Wean Hall 7203 	                Voice: (412) 268-3621
 	Computer Science Department 	Fax: (412) 268-5576
 	Carnegie Mellon University 	E-mail: leili@cs.cmu.edu
 	Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 	WWW: www.cs.cmu.edu/~leili

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Machine learning and data mining

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
    Ph.D. student, Computer Science, since Aug, 2006 
    Advisor: Christos Faloutsos 

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    B.S., Computer Science, Sep, 2002 - Jun, 2006 
    Thesis: Semantic Search based on Probabilistic Description Logic Program 
    Advisor: Yong Yu 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
    Research Assistant Aug, 2006 - present 

APEX Data & Knowledge Management Lab, Shanghai, China
    Research Assistant, on semantic search and semantic web Jul, 2004 - Jun, 2006 

Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
    Visiting Student, on semantic file system Aug, 2005 - Oct, 2005 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    Teaching Assistant: Modern DBMS Implementation Fall, 2005 
    Teaching Assistant: Operating System Project(Nachos) Fall, 2005 
    Teaching Assistant: Modern Compiler Implementation Spring, 2005 

PUBLICATIONS
Lei Li, Jim McCann, Christos Faloutsos, Nancy Pollard. Laziness is a virtue: Motion stitching using effort minimization. Eurographics 2008, short paper, to appear.

Lei Li, Qiaoling Liu, Yunfeng Tao, Lei Zhang, Jian Zhou, Yong Yu. PDLP: Providing an Uncertainty Reasoning Service for Semantic Web Applications. The 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference, in LNCS 3841, 2006.

COURSE PROJECTS
Text Classification with LDA, Nov, 2006.
FatWorm DBMS with JDBC and RMI, Feb, 2005.
Nachos OS with TCP, Jan, 2005.
Tiger Compiler, Jul, 2004.

AWARDS
Dong Oriental Scholarship, 2004, 2005
Second place, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2004
``Exceptional Student'' award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2003

COMPUTER SKILLS
Java, C++, Matlab