Title: Associate Professor
Program: Computer Science
Office: CAS 229
Phone: 330-972-7109
Email: echeng@uakron.edu
Website: https://www.cs.uakron.edu/~echeng

Biography

Dr. E. Cheng (co-PI) joined the Department of Computer Science at The University of Akron as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2012. Since Fall 2018, she has been promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. Dr. Cheng earned her Ph.D in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University in 2012. Dr. Cheng has been teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Science and developed two new graduate courses, namely Data Integration and NoSQL Data Management. She is involved on 5 M.S. degrees committees and 5 Ph.D. degrees committees. She has trained students on the development of large-scale data management and analytics systems and building data integration applications.

Research Interests

Data Integration, Big Data Management and Analytics, Database Systems and Applications, Mobile Applications, Business Intelligence, and Bioinformatics.

Publications

  • Non-Parametric Error Estimation for σ-AQP using Optimized Bootstrap Sampling, F. Yu, S. Cal, E. Cheng, L. Kerns, W. Xiong, International Society for Computers and their Applications, Vol. 29, No. 1, Page 38-47, 2022.
  • Efficient Path Routing Over Road Networks in the Presence of Ad-Hoc Obstacles, A. Al-Baghdadi, X. Lian, E. Cheng,  Information Systems 88 (2020) 101453, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2019.101453
  • Little Botany: a Mobile Game Utilizing Data Integration to Enhance Plant Science Education, S. Jamonnak,  E. Cheng, International Journal of Computer Games Technology, Volume 2017 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3635061.
  • Libwebex: A Non-discriminating Web Content Extraction Library, M. Gruesen, E. Cheng, International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE’16), 2016.
  • Recommenddit: A Recommendation Service for Reddit Communities, S. Jamonnak, J. Kilgallin, C.-C. Chan, E. Cheng, International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2015.
  • RooWay: A Web-based Application for UA Campus Directions, H. Nguyen, H. Zhao, S. Jamonnak, J. Kilgallin, E. Cheng, International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2015.
  • TrackShip: A Unified Shipment Tracking Application, H. K. Bodicharla, E. Cheng, International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS’14), 2014.
  • UAtilize: Interactive Visualization & Analysis of Campus Building Utilization, S. Jamonnak, E. Cheng, International Congress on Computer Applications (ICCA), 2014.
  • Using Business Intelligence to Improve DBA Productivity, E. Mortensen, E. Cheng, Open Journal of Databases (OJDB), 1(2), Pages 1-16, 2014.
  • Path-Counting Formulas for Generalized Kinship Coefficients and Condensed Identity Coefficients, E. Cheng, Z. M. Ozsoyoglu, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Volume 2014, doi:10.1155/2014/898424, 2014.
  • PathCase-SB: integrating data sources and providing tools for systems biology research, S.A. Coskun, X. Qi, A. Cakmak, E. Cheng, E. A. Cicek, L. Yang, R. Jadeja, R. K. Dash, N. Lai, G. Ozsoyoglu, Z. M. Ozsoyoglu, BMC Systems Biology, 6:67 doi:10.1186/1752-0509-6-67, 2012.
  • A Complete Translation from SPARQL into Efficient SQL, B. Elliott, E. Cheng, C. Ogbuji, Z. M. Ozsoyoglu, International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, 2009.

Education

  • Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University  2012
  • M.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China   2006
  • B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China   2003

Courses

Data Integration, Data Structures, Database Management, NoSQL Data Management