Office: Engineering Office Wing 409; Office Hours: appointment by email

Telephone: +1-250-721-8683; Fax: +1-250-721-6052; email: kinli(AT)uvic(DOT)ca

Current Lectures (Spring 2013):

- ENGR 120 Design and Communication II

- ENGR 121 Design II

Courses Taught: CENG/ELEC/SENG Design Project (check out the Robot Pet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHBreRQFlnM); CENG 255 Introduction to Computer Architecture; CENG 355 Microprocessor Systems; CENG 420 Artificial Intelligence; CENG 450 Computer Systems and Architecture; CENG 455 Real Time Computer Systems Design Project; CENG 460 Computer Communication Systems; CENG/ELEC 499A Mobile Robot Design Competition; SENG 380 Applied Cost Engineering; SENG 440/540 Embedded Systems; ELEC 563 Advanced Computer Architecture; ELEC 590 Information Retrieval on the Web; ELEC 699 Web and Business Intelligence

Research Interests: embedded systems, web mining and search engines, distributed systems, business intelligence, e-learning

Research Publications

Affiliated Research Laboratories:

• effective Netizen-Enabled Web Search (eNEWS) Research Group University of Victoria (Leader)
• Canadian Institute for Accessibility and Inclusion (CanAssist)
• Nishio Multimedia Data Engineering Laboratory, Osaka University
• Computer and Software Engineering Research Group (CSENG) University of Victoria (Director)
• LAboratory for Parallel and Intelligent Systems (LAPIS) University of Victoria

Professional Activities:

• PacRim'13 2013 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (Steering Co-Chair)
• BWCCA 2013 international Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (Workshop Co-Chair)
• MC2 2013 International Workshop on Motion Capture and Classification (Workshop Co-Chair)
• ISSE 2013 International Workshop on Intelligent Sensors and Environments (Workshop Co-Chair)
• TALE 2013 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (Publicity Co-Chair)
• MAW-13 2013 International Symposium on Mining and Web (Symposium Co-Chair)
• AINA 2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application (General Co-Chair)
• EIDWT 2013 International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (Workshop Co-Chair)
• NBiS 2013 The 16th International Conference on Network-Based Information System (Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Applications Track Chair)
• ADC 2013 Australian Database Conference (Program Committee)
• AINA 2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application Distributed Database and Data Mining Track (Program Committee)
• IMIS 2013 Seventh International Conference on Innovative Mobile & Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (Program Committee)
• WEBIST 2013 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Program Committee)
• BWCCA 2012 International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (General Co-Chair)
• CSO Fifth International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimizations(Program Co-Chair)
• 3PGCIC 2012 International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (General Co-Chair)
• ITSE 2012 International Conference on Information Technology and Software Engineering (Organizing CommitteeChair)
• MC2 2012 International Workshop on Motion Capture and Classification (Workshop Co-Chair)
• SPICE 2012 International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Environments (Workshop Co-Chair)
• INCoS 2012 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (Workshop Co-Chair and International Advisory)
• BIDS 2012 International Workshop on Business Intelligence and Distributed Systems (Workshop Co-Chair)
• ISSE 2012 International Workshop on Intelligent Sensors and Smart Environments (Workshop Co-Chair)
• BioSPAN 2012 International Workshop on Bio-Sensing, Processing, Application and Networking (Workshop Co-Chair)
• MAW-12 2012 International Symposium on Mining and Web (Symposium Co-Chair)
• QuEST-12 2012 International Workshop on Quantitative Evaluation of large-scale Systems and Technologies (Workshop Co-Chair)
• IMIS 2012 The Sixth International Conference on Innovative Mobile & Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (Modeling, Simulation & Performanc Track Chair)
• AINA 2012 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (International Liaison Co-Chair)
• MUSIC-12 The 2011 FTRA International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous and Intelligent Computing (Workshop Co-Chair)
• NBiS 2012 The 15th International Conference on Network-Based Information System (Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Applications Track Chair)
• ASEA 2012 Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (Program Committee)
• iiWAS 2012 The 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services (Program Committee)
• WSSM 2012 The First International Workshop on Web Services and Social Media (Program Committee)
• ISBEIA 2012 IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications (Program Committee)
• ISIC 2012 Internatioanl Conference on Information Security and Intelligent Control (Program Committee)
• WEBIST 2012 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Program Committee)
• CHUSER 2012 IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineering (Program Committee)
• CADS 2012 The Seventeenth CSI International Symposium on Computer Architecture and Digital Systems (Program Committee)
• BEIAC 2012 IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium (Program Committee)
• BIFE 2012 Fifth International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (Program Committee)
• ISIC 2012 International Conference on Information Security and Intelligent Control (Program Committee)
• ISCI 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Informatics (Program Committee)
• TeNAS 2012 The Sixth International Workshop on Telecommunication Networking, Applications and Systems (Program Committee)
• PacRim'11 2011 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (Conference Co-Chair)
• BWCCA 2011 The Sixth International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (Program Co-Chair)
• BioSPAN 2011 The First International Conference on Bio-Sensing, Processing, Application and Networking (Workshop Co-Chair)
• BIDS 2011 International Workshop on Business Intelligence and Distributed Systems (Workshop Co-Chair)
• HPCC 2011 The 13th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (Program Vice Chair)
• ECMS 2011 The 25th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (International Advisory Board)
• MAW-11 2011 International Symposium on Mining and Web (Symposium Co-Chair)
• QuEST-11 2011 International Workshop on Quantitative Evaluation of large-scale Systems and Technologies (Workshop Co-Chair)
• NBiS 2011 The 14th International Conference on Network-Based Information System (Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Area Chair)
• IMIS 2011 The Fifth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (Data Management Track Chair)
• iiWAS 2011 The 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services (Program Committee)
• ISCI 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Informatics (Program Committee)
• BIFE 2011 Second International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (Program Committee)
• SWS 2011 Third Symposium on Web Society (Program Committee)
• TeNAS 2011 The Fifth International Workshop on Telecommunication Networking, Applications and Systems (Program Committee)
• ASEA 2011 International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (Program Committee)
• ICCAIE 2011 International Conference on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (Program Committee)
• ICOS 2011 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (Program Committee)
• ISIEA 2011 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (Program Committee)
• ICISS 2011 The 2011 IEEE International conference on Intelligent Computing and Integrated Systems (Program Committee)
• HIS 2011 11th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (Program Committee)
• ICISA 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Applications (Program Committee)
• CCECE 2011 24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (Program Committee)
• WEBIST 2011 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Program Committee)
• CSO 2011 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization (Program Committee)
• AINA 2011 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (Program Committee)
• BIDS 2010 International Workshop on Business Intelligence and Distributed Systems (Conference Co-Chair)
• MAW10 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Mining and Web (General Co-Chair)
• QuEST10 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Quantitative Evaluation of large-scale Systems and Technologies (Program Co-Chair)
• NBiS 2010 The 13th International Conference on Network-Based Information System (Web and Internet Applications Area Chair)
• 3PGCIC 2010 The 5th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (Database and Data Mining Track Chair)
• CISIS 2010 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (Ontologies, Semantic Web and Web Services Track Chair)
• 2010 Second IEEE Symposium on Web Society (Program Committee)
• KDIR 2010 International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (Program Committee)
• BIFE 2010 Second International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (Program Committee)
• ICCAIE 2010 International Conference on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (Program Committee)
• AINA 2010 IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (Program Committee)
• WEBIST 2010 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Program Committee)
• CSO 2010 The Third International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization (Program Committee)
• ASEA 2010 International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (Program Committee)
• ICISA 2010 International Conference on Information Science and Applications (Program Committee)
• ACCS 2009 International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational Sciences (Program Co-Chair)
• EUC-09 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (General Vice Chair)
• MAW-09 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Mining and Web (Steering Co-Chair)
• PacRim'09 2009 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (Conference Co-Chair)
• QuEST-09 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Quantitative Evaluation of large-scale Systems and Technologies (General Co-Chair)
• AIBDM 2009, Workshop on Advances and Issues in Biomedical Data Mining (Program Committee)
• AINA-09 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (Program Committee)
• ASEA 2009 International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (Program Committee)
• BIFE 2009 Second International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (Program Committee)
• CISIM 2009 8th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (Program Committee)
• ENQOIR 2009 International Workshop on Aspects in Evaluating Holistic Quality of Ontology-based Information Retrieval (Program Committee)
• FIP09 2nd International Symposium on Financial Information Processing (Program Committee)
• ICOCI09 International Conference on Computing and Informatics (International Technical Committee)
• International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies Special Issue on Evaluation Aspects of Semantic Search Applications (Program Committee)
• KDIR 2009 International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (Program Committee)
• SNDP'09 Tenth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (Program Committee)
• ICKD 2009 International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (Program Committee)
• SoCPaR 2009, International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (Program Committee)
• SWS 2009 First IEEE Symposium on Web Society (Program Committee)
• WEBIST 2009 Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Program Committee)
• ACCS 2008, International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational Sciences (Program Co-Chair)
• MAW-08 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Mining the Asian Web (Steering Co-Chair)
• AINA-08 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (Program Committee)
• ASEA 2008, Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (Program Committee)
• ICCCAS 2008, International Conference on Communications, Circuits and  Systems (Program Committee)
• ISDA'08 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications (Program Committee)
• SNDP'08 Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (Program Committee)
• SOSE 2008, IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (Program Committee)
• WEBIST 2008 Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Program Committee)
• International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics  (Editorial Board)
• International Journal of Computational Science (Editorial Board)
• International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (Editorial Board)
• IEEE Victoria Section Educational Activities (Chair)

University of Victoria, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering