Dr. Qin Ding Professor & Department Chair Department of Computer Science Mail Stop #520 East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 Office: Sci. & Tech. C-118 Email:   dingq@ecu.edu Phone: 252-328-9686

Qin Ding is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University.  

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Computer Science, North Dakota State University, 2002
• M.Eng., Computer Science, Nanjing University, 1991
• B.S., Computer Science, Nanjing University, 1988
  

HONORS & AWARDS

• UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award, 2016
  
• Scholar-Teacher Award, East Carolina University, 2013.

TEACHING

• Courses taught in recent years
  
• CSCI 2540 - Data Abstraction and Object-Oriented Data Structures (undergraduate)
  
• CSCI 3700 - Database Management Systems (undergraduate)
• CSCI 6600 - Database Management System (graduate)
  
• CSCI 6840 - Data Mining (graduate)

RESEARCH

• Research Interests
• Data mining
• Bioinformatics
• Database
  

• Selected Publications

• Arunprasad Sundharam and Qin Ding, "Implementation of BERT based Machine Learning Model to Extract Cancer-miRNA Relationship from Research Literature", Proceedings of 2021 International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, EPiC Series in Computing, Vol. 77, 2021.
• Qin Ding and Robert Boykin, "A Framework for Distributed Nearest Neighbor Classification Using Hadoop", Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, 17(2017), S11-S19.
• Hui Guo and Qin Ding, "miRDiabetes: A microRNA-Diabetes Association Database Constructed by Classification on Literature", International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2016.
• John Stiller, John Schreiber, Jipei Yue, Hui Guo, Qin Ding, and Jinling Huang, "The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses", Nature Communications, 5:5764, doi:10.1038/ncomms6764, 2014.   (link)
• Boya Xie, Qin Ding, Hongjin Han and Di Wu, "miRCancer: a microRNA-cancer association database constructed by text mining on literature", Bioinformatics, Vol. 29, Issue 5, pp. 638-644, 2013. (link)
• John W Stiller, Jinling Huang, Qin Ding, Jing Tian and Carol Goodwillie, "Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses?", BMC Genomics, 10:484, 2009.  (link)
• Qin Ding, Qiang Ding, and William Perrizo, "PARM - An Efficient Algorithm to Mine Association Rules from Spatial Data", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, Vol 38, No. 6, 2008, pp. 1513-1524.  (link)
• Qin Ding, Qiang Ding and William Perrizo, "Association Rule Mining on Remotely Sensed Images Using P-trees", PAKDD 2002, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2336, 2002, pp. 66-79.
• Maleq Khan, Qin Ding and William Perrizo, "K-nearest Neighbor Classification on Spatial Data Stream Using P-trees", PAKDD 2002, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2336, 2002, pp. 517-528.
• Qin Ding, Maleq Khan, Amalendu Roy and William Perrizo, "The P-tree Algebra", ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Madrid, Spain, March 2002, pp. 426-431.

• Citations
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