{"id":2,"date":"2025-03-18T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:40:10","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-6088d897 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1);flex-basis:60%\"><div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/255975?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Huan Liu\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/255975\">Huan Liu<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Regents Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence<\/span><\/h4><\/div><ul class=\"person-contact-info\"><li><a href=\"mailto:huanliu@asu.edu\" aria-label=\"Mail to: huanliu@asu.edu\" data-ga-event=\"link\" data-ga-action=\"click\" data-ga-name=\"onclick\" data-ga-type=\"internal link\" data-ga-region=\"main content\" data-ga-section=\"huanliu\" data-ga=\"huanliu@asu.edu\">huanliu@asu.edu<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"tel:480-727-7349\" aria-label=\"User phone number: 480-727-7349\" data-ga-event=\"link\" data-ga-action=\"click\" data-ga-name=\"onclick\" data-ga-type=\"internal link\" data-ga-region=\"main content\" data-ga-section=\"huanliu\" data-ga=\"480-727-7349\">480-727-7349<\/a><\/li><li>BYENG 566<\/li><\/ul><div><p class=\"person-description\">Liu&#8217;s areas of expertise include Data Mining, Machine Learning, Feature Selection, Social Computing, Social Media Mining, and AI.  He is a Fellow of ACM, AAAI, AAAS, and IEEE. \r\n\r\n<\/p><\/div><ul class=\"person-social-medias\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/\" aria-label=\"Go to user personal website\" data-ga-event=\"link\" data-ga-action=\"click\" data-ga-name=\"onclick\" data-ga-type=\"external link\" data-ga-region=\"main content\" data-ga-section=\"huanliu\" data-ga=\"web-icon\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-globe\"><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/b\/2\/embed?src=huanliu@asu.edu&amp;ctz=America\/Phoenix\">Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to <strong>volunteer<\/strong> to do research in DMML, please consider taking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.public.asu.edu\/%7Ehuanliu\/SMM24F\/cse472.htm\">CSE472 Social Media Mining<\/a> (Graduate students can take this course as part of their degree programs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brickyard Suite 225 (SCAI), 699 South Mill Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281 for FedEx type mails<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For those with ASU access, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.public.asu.edu\/~huanliu\">this link<\/a> for my old webpage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Textbooks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Social Media Mining: An Introduction<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/ec\/academic\/subjects\/computer-science\/knowledge-management-databases-and-data-mining\/social-media-mining-introduction\">Cambridge University Press<\/a>, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-uds-md\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediamining.info\/\">Get the textbook<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-uds-md\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Chinese translation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dmml.asu.edu\/\">Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huan Liu&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/\">Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Dzf46C8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/datasets.syr.edu\/\">Social Computing Data<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/featureselection.asu.edu\/\">Feature Selection<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/featureselection.asu.edu\/scikit-feature\/\">scikit-feature Python repositor<\/a>y<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sbp.asu.edu\/\">Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction Series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Research<\/a>&nbsp;Interests&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Surveys:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2102.05829\">Causal Inference for Time Series Analysis<\/a>: Problems, Methods, and Evaluation,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2101.02032.pdf\">Socially Responsible AI Algorithms:<\/a>&nbsp;Issues, Purposes, and Challenges 2021,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3400051.3400058\">Causal Interpretability for Machine Learning<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Problems, Methods and Evaluation 2020,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1809.09337\">Learning Causality with Data:<\/a>&nbsp;Problems and Methods 2020,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1808.02191\">Privacy in Social Media:<\/a>&nbsp;Identification, Mitigation and Applications, 2020; Frontiers in Big Data,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fdata.2018.00001\/full\">Data Mining &amp; Management<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>My research focuses on developing computational methods for data mining, machine learning, and social computing, and designing efficient algorithms to enable effective problem solving ranging from basic research, text\/Web mining, bioinformatics, image mining, to real-world applications. His work includes (i) dealing with high dimensional data via feature selection and feature discretization; (ii)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_media_mining\">social media mining<\/a>\/social computing, identifying the influentials in the blogosphere, group profiling and interaction; (iii) integrating multiple data sources to overcome ambiguity and uncertainty, (iv) employing domain knowledge for effective mining and information integration,&nbsp;&nbsp;and (v) assisting human experts by developing effective methods of ensemble learning, and active learning with hierarchical classification, subspace clustering, and meta data. Detailed information can be obtained via his publications and <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/235\/2025\/03\/2024-10-08-Hawaii-Diamondhead-IMG_3112-scaled.jpg\">professional activities<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associated with the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asu.edu\/ai\">AI<\/a>&nbsp;lab at ASU; an&nbsp;affiliated faculty with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issr.asu.edu\/\">Institute of Social Science Research<\/a>&nbsp;at ASU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Huan Liu&#8217;s Short Bio Sketch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Huan Liu is a Regents Professor and Ira A. Fulton Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. At Arizona State University, he was recognized for excellence in teaching and research in Computer Science and Engineering and received the 2014 President&#8217;s Award for Innovation. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGKDD 2022 Innovation Award. His research interests are in data mining, machine learning, feature selection, social computing,&nbsp; social media mining, and artificial intelligence, investigating interdisciplinary problems that arise in many real-world, data-intensive applications with high-dimensional data of disparate forms such as social media. His well-cited publications include books, book chapters, encyclopedia entries as well as conference and journal papers. He is a co-author of a text,<em>Social Media Mining: An Introduction,<\/em> Cambridge University Press. He is a founding organizer of the International Conference Series on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, Editor in Chief of ACM TIST, and Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Big Data&nbsp; and its Specialty Chief Editor of Data Mining and Management. He is a Fellow of ACM, AAAI, AAAS, and IEEE. <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/\">https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">Calendar If you&#8217;d like to volunteer to do research in DMML, please consider taking CSE472 Social Media Mining (Graduate students can take this course as part of their degree programs). 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