Lei Yu joined the Department of Computer Science at State University of New York at Binghamton as an Assistant Professor in September 2005. He received his B.Eng. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Dalian University of Technology in July 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University in July 2005.

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bioinformatics

Courses taught

• CS435/535: Introduction to Data Mining
• CS480/580: Introduction to Machine Learning
• CS635: Advanced Data Mining Seminar

Selected Publications

• Huan Liu and Lei Yu. "Toward Integrating Feature Selection Algorithms for Classification and Clustering". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 17(3), 1-12, 2005.
• Lei Yu and Huan Liu. "Efficient Feature Selection via Analysis of Relevance and Redundancy". Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5(Oct), 1205-1224, 2004.
• Huan Liu, Hiroshi Motoda, and Lei Yu. "A Selective Sampling Approach to Active Feature Selection". Artificial Intelligence, 159 (1-2), 49-74, 2004.
• Lei Yu and Huan Liu. "Redundancy Based Feature Selection for Microarray Data". In Proceedings of The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-04), pp. 737-742, Seattle, WA, August, 2004.
• Lei Yu and Huan Liu. "Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data: A Fast Correlation-Based Filter Solution". In Proceedings of The Twentieth International Conference on Machine Leaning (ICML-03), pp. 856-863, Washington, D.C., August, 2003.
• Huan Liu, Hiroshi Motoda, and Lei Yu. "Feature Selection with Selective Sampling". In Proceedings of The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-02), pp. 395-402, Sydney, Australia, July, 2002.