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Excellence in Research , MTSM, NJIT

Peter Chen Big Data Young Researcher Award

Henry J. Leir Chair in Healthcare, Leir Charitable Foundations

Leir Best Paper Award, Second Prize

A session-specific opportunity cost model for rank-oriented recommendation

Webpage Depth Viewability Prediction using Deep Sequential Neural Networks

Predictive models and analysis for webpage depth-level dwell time

Compact Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems by Petri Nets With Data Inhibitor Arcs

Patient-centered and experience-aware mining for eﬀective adverse drug reaction discovery in online health forums

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Healthcare Impact Of Economic and Financial Crises

Yi Chen is a professor and the Henry J. Leir Chair in Healthcare in Martin Tuchman School of Management, with a joint appointment in Ying Wu College of Computing at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Prior to joining NJIT, she was an associate professor at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 and B.S. from Central South University in 1999. She and her research group develop cutting-edge database, data mining and machine learning techniques with applications in business, health care and the web.

Some of her projects include information discovery on big data, social media mining for health care, computational advertising, social computing, workflow management and information integration. She has served on the organization and program committees for prestigious conferences, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, CIKM and SIGIR, served as an associate editor for TKDE, DAPD, PVLDB, INFORMS Journal on Computing, ECRA, and Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, as well as a general chair for SIGMOD'2012. She also served as the inaugural director for the P.hD. program in business data science at NJIT. 

Chen is a recipient of a Peter Chen Big Data Young Researcher Award, Excellence in Research Prize (NJIT), Outstanding Faculty Researcher in Computer Science and Engineering (ASU), Google Research Award, IBM Faculty Award and an NSF CAREER Award. Her research is funded by NSF, Leir Charitable Foundations, Google, IBM, Science Foundation Arizona and the Department of Defense.

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CAREER: Analyzing and Exploiting Meta-information for Keyword Search on Semi-structured Data

Henry J. Leir Chair in Healthcare and Associate Professor

Listen to Dr. Yi Chen, a professor at NJIT's School of Management, give an overview of her research projects and how she integrates her research findings in the classroom. NJIT's online MBA has a MIS specialization option where students can learn about the challenges of integrating big data analytics into business.

MIS Research in the Classroom

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