Education

• Sep. 2002 –June 2006
       Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science & Technology
       College of Information Science and Technology,
       Drexel University, P.A. U.S.A.

• Aug. 2000 – Aug. 2002
       The Master of Science in Information Science
       School of Information Science,
       University of Pittsburgh, P.A. U.S.A.

Research Interests

• Semantic-oriented Information Retrieval and Semantic-oriented MEDLINE search

• Biomedical Text Mining using Biomedical Ontologies (e.g., MeSH, UMLS, or GO)

• Data/Text Mining on Clinical data

• Health/Biomedical Informatics

• Bioinformatics

Award

• Won the award for “Most Likely to Enhance Drexel’s Reputation” by Drexel’s Dissertation Award Committee on Jun. 16, 2006

• Won the best paper award as the co-author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE CIBCB 2004) on Oct. 7, 2004

Recent Publications

• Journal Papers

  • Hu X., Zhang X., Li. G., Yoo I., Zhou X., Wu D., Mining Hidden Connections among Biomedical Concepts from Disjoint Biomedical Literature Sets through Semantic-based Association Rule, accepted to be published in the International Journal of Intelligent Systems

  • Yoo I and M. Song, Biomedical Ontologies and Text Mining for Biomedicine and Healthcare: A Survey, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE), 2008, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. xxx-yyy

  • Yoo I, Hu X, and Song I-Y., A Coherent Graph-based Semantic Clustering and Summarization Approach for Biomedical Literature and a New Summarization Evaluation Method, BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 9):S4 (Impact Factor: 3.62 as of 12/18/2007).

  • Yoo I, Hu X, and Song I-Y., Biomedical Ontology Improves Biomedical Literature Clustering Performance: A Comparison Study, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol 3, No. 3, 2007, pp. 414-428.

• Book Chapters

• Conference Papers

  • Song M, Hu X, Yoo I, Koppel E, Document Clustering by Semantic Smoothing and Dynamic Growing Cell Structure (DynGCS) for Biomedical Literature, 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWak 2008), pp. xx-xx, Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008

  • Song M., and Yoo I, A Hybrid Abbreviation Extraction Technique for Biomedical Literature, accepted in 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2007), San Jose, CA, USA, Nov. 2-4, 2007

Recent Professional Services

• [Journal Editor] Guest co-editor for Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE), Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Health Informatics, 2008

• [Editorial Board] International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine (IJFIPM) (2008-Present)

• [Conference Workshop co-Chair] 2008 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Nov 7-9, 2008

• [Workshop Co-Chair] 2008 International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2008 (BIBM 2008), Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 5-7, 2008

• [Workshop Co-Chair]  2007 International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Health Informatics in conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2007 (BIBM 2007), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-4, 2007

• [Conference/Workshop Program Committee]

  • 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (MLBB) in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’08) 11-13 Dec. 2008 San Diego, California, USA

  • 2008 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Nov 7-9, 2008

  • 2008 ACM Second International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics in conjunction with ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008, Napa Valley, CA, USA, Oct 26-30, 2008

  • 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWak 2008), Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008

• [Reviewer] Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) (2008-Present)

• [Conference Session Chair] (Session: Biological Databases and Ontologies, Data Integration and Visualization), 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007), Silicon Valley, USA, Nov. 2-4, 2007