Kenneth Pao


         Hsing-Kuo Kenneth Pao


Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University of Science & Technology.

43 Keelung Rd, Section 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Email: pao -at- mail.ntust.edu.tw 
Phone: +886-2-27301065 
Fax: +886-2-27301081 

B.S. in Mathematics, National Taiwan University
M.S. & Ph.D. in Computer Science, New York University.





Teaching

Algorithms, Spring, 2009
Machine Learning, Fall, 2008

Advanced Machine Learning, Spring, 2008
Algorithms, Spring, 2008
Machine Learning, Fall, 2007
Data Structures, Fall, 2007

Bayesian Theory and Graphical Models, Spring, 2007
Algorithms, Spring, 2007
Machine Learning, Fall, 2006
Data Structures, Fall, 2006

Bioinformatics, Spring, 2006
Database, Spring, 2006
Bayesian Theory and Graphical Models, Fall, 2005
Algorithms, Fall, 2005

Machine Learning, Spring, 2005
Database, Spring, 2005
Bioinformatics, Fall, 2004
Algorithms, Fall, 2004

Machine Learning, Spring, 2004
Database, Spring, 2004
Bioinformatics, Fall, 2003
Algorithms, Fall, 2003



Research Area

Machine Learning:
Bayesian Learning, Dimension Reduction, Graphical Models & Markov Models, Semi-supervised Learning, Text mining, Search Engines.

Computer Vision:
Object Tracking, Figure/Ground Separation, Shape analysis, Pattern Recognition, Low-level vision

Bioinformatics:
Ortholog Detection, SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism), Haplotype Reconstruction, Association Study

Information Security:
Anomaly Detection, Botnet, Gamebot Detection.



Publications

Conference Paper

K.-T. Chen, H.-K. Pao and H.-C. Chang.
"Game Bot Identification Based on Manifold Learning" (pdf),
7th Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, Oct. 21 - 22, 2008. [ACM]

K.-T. Chen, A. Liao, H.-K. Pao and H.-H. Chu.
"Game Bot Detection Based on Avatar Trajectory" (pdf),
7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Pittsburgh, USA, Sep. 25 - 27, 2008. [LNCS]

H.-K. Pao, S.-C. Chang and Y.-J. Lee.
"Model Trees for Classification of Hybrid Data Types" (pdf),
6th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Queensland, Australia, July 2005.

H.-K. Pao and J. Case.
"Computing Entropy for Ortholog Detection" (pdf),
International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2004.

Y. Lin, J. Case, H.-K. Pao and J. Burnside.
"Predicted Secondary Structure Slightly Enhances Ortholog Detection",
The 8th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, San Diego, USA March 2004.

C. Yap, H. Biermann, A. Hertzman, C. Li, J. Meyer, H.-K. Pao and S. Paxia.
"A Different Manhattan Project: Automatic Statistical Model Generation" (gzipped postscript),
Proc. of the 14th Symposium on Electronic Imaging, IS&T/SPIE, San Jose, California, USA, January 2002.

H.-K. Pao and D. Geiger.
"A Continuous Shape Descriptor by Orientation Diffusion" (gzipped postscript),
The 3rd International Workshop on EMMCVPR, France, September 2001.

H.-K. Pao
Doctoral Dissertation,
"A Continuous Model for Salient Shape Selection and Representation", New York University, April 2001.
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H.-K. Pao, D. Geiger and N. Rubin.
"Measuring Convexity for Figure/Ground Separation" (gzipped postscript),
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra, Greece, September 1999.

D. Geiger, Krishnan Kumaran, H.-K. Pao and N. Rubin.
"The Shape of Illusory Figures",
IEEE Signal Processing Society, International Conference on Image Processing, Kobe, Japan, October 1999.

D. Geiger, H.-K. Pao and N. Rubin.
"Salient and Multiple Illusory Surfaces" (gzipped postscript),
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Santa Barbara, California, USA, June 1998.

Book Chapter

Y.-C. Chang, Y.-J. Lee, H.-K. Pao, M.-H. Lee and S.-Y. Huang.
"Data Visualization via Kernel Machines",
in C.-H. Chen, W. Hardle and A. Unwin (editors),
Handbook of Computational Statistics (Volume III), Data Visualization, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006.



Other Interesting Works

Computer Graphics and Animation

Shape Selection and Representation

The Different Manhattan Project



Last Revised: Jun. 23, 2005