Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Texas Tech University
victor.sheng@ttu.edu
FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
TA/RA positions in PhD program
I am looking for self-motivated, creative and hard-working Ph.D. students. Please feel free to email me (victor.sheng@ttu.edu) your CV if you are interested in my research. TTU is a Carnegie Research I (R1) university.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Crowdsourcing
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Spatial Information Retrieval
Data Security
Decision Support
Applications in Business, Health Informatics, and Software Engineering
RESEARCH FUNDINGS
Improving Data Quality and Data Mining Using Noisy Micro-Outsourcing. National Science Foundation, PI, (2011 - 2017) $355,628. Welcome to join the PROJECT .
University of Central Arkansas start-up funding, (2010 - ). $14,000.
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, like NSF in U.S., total $80,000), September 2007 - August 2009.
NSERC Post-graduate Scholarship (total $63,000), May 2005 - April 2008.
EDUCATION
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA September 2007 - August 2009
Ph.D., Computer Science
The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada August 2007
M.Sc., Computer Science
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada December 2003
M.Sc.E., Computer Engineering
Suzhou University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China July 1999
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Student Best Paper Award Finalist, The Sixteenth International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2015)
Best Paper Award, 11th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM, 2011
Best Paper Award Runner-Up, ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD08), 2008
Best Poster Award, The UW and IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section Joint Workshop on Knowledge and Data Mining (2006), University of Waterloo, ON, Canada