Talks

Research Presentations and Invited Talks

  • Exploring Career Options and Preparing for the Job Market, TRIO SSS Programs Leading and Learning Week, Northeastern Illinois University, November 2023
  • A Survey of Student Counseling Systems: Functions, Designs, and Interactions. 2023 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August, 2023.
  • A Machine Learning-based Course Enrollment Recommender System. 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, April, 2022.
  • Guiding Us throughout a Sea of Data - A Survey on Recommender Systems and Its Privacy Challenges. 10th Annual Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium, November, 2019.
  • Privacy-Preserving POI Recommendation Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. 2018 IEEE Symposium on Privacy-Aware Computing, Washington D.C., USA. September, 2018.
  • Energy-efficient Transmission Based on Compressive Sensing in WSN. 2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, San Francisco, California, USA. March, 2017.
  • Exploring Home Assistant Devices in Breast Cancer Education. 8th NEIU Annual Faculty Symposium, November 2017.
  • Trust-aware Privacy-Preserving Recommender System. 9th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Xi’an, China, June 18-20, 2016.
  • Using Incremental Clustering Technique in Collaborative Filtering Data Update, 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco, CA, August 2014
  • An Empirical Study on SVD-based Recommender System, 27th Annual Eastern Kentucky University Symposium in Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Sciences, Richmond, KY, April 2014
  • Interest-based Trust Propagation in Blog Community, 24th Annual Eastern Kentucky University Symposium in Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Sciences, Richmond, KY, April 2010

Student Presentations

  • Julian Franco, Rudy Caraballo, Jason Standfast, Kay Vargas, Yun Wan, Xiwei Wang, Sherrene Bogle, Shebuti Rayana, and Palvi Aggarwal. AI-driven Counseling System for Underrepresented Transfer Students, 2023 Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Conference, Pasadena, CA, October 2023
  • Amsal Issa, Danny Panettieri, Edwin Munoz, Nikunj Patel, Xiwei Wang, and Yun Wan. AI-driven Counseling System for Transfer Students, 15th SCSE Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, September 2023.
  • Muhammad Bangash, Mohammad Bilal, and Xiwei Wang. Improving the Prediction Accuracy for Privacy-Preserving Point-of-Interest Recommender Systems. 2022 Illinois LSAMP Symposium, February 2022.
  • Muhammad Bangash, Mohammad Bilal, and Xiwei Wang. Improving the Accuracy for Privacy-Preserving Point-Of-Interest Recommender Systems. 2021 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference, October 2021.
  • Wali Chaudhry, Luis Rosales, Muhammad Bangash, Mohammad Bilal, Longyin Cui, and Xiwei Wang. A Machine Learning-Based Course Enrollment Recommender System. 2021 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference, October 2021.
  • Muhammad Bangash, Mohammad Bilal, and Xiwei Wang. Improving the Accuracy for Privacy-Preserving Point-Of-Interest Recommender Systems. 13th SCSE Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, October 2021.
  • Wali Chaudhry, Luis Rosales, Muhammad Bangash, Mohammad Bilal, Longyin Cui, and Xiwei Wang. A Machine Learning-Based Course Enrollment Recommender System. 13th SCSE Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, October 2021.
  • Longyin Cui, Xiwei Wang, and Jun Zhang. Vendor-based Privacy-Preserving POI Recommendation Network. 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Virtual, April, 2021. [Video]
  • Behnaz Dehghanian and Xiwei Wang. Improving the Prediction Accuracy for Privacy-Preserving Point-of-Interest Recommender Systems. 2021 NEIU Student Research and Creative Activities Symposium, April 2021.
  • Behnaz Dehghanian and Xiwei Wang. Improving the Prediction Accuracy for Privacy-Preserving Point-of-Interest Recommender Systems. 2021 Illinois LSAMP Virtual Symposium, February 2021.
  • Carlos Degollado, Hiram Lin, Isaac Espinoza, Xiwei Wang, Marcelo Sztainberg, and Ahmed Khaled. Privacy-Preserving Recommender System. 2020 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference, October 2020.
  • Carlos Degollado, Hiram Lin, Isaac Espinoza, Marcelo Sztainberg, Ahmed Khaled, and Xiwei Wang. Anonyrate Privacy-Preserving Recommender System. 12th SCSE Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, October 2020.
  • Chen Tang, Minh Nguyen, Marcelo Sztainberg, and Xiwei Wang. Designing a Point-of-Interest Recommender System Using Matrix Factorization Techniques. 11th SCSE Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, September 2019.
  • Jonathan Carr, Sana Kanwal, Xiwei Wang, and Marcelo Sztainberg. Using a Collaborative Filtering System to Predict User Preferences. 11th SCSE Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, September 2019.
  • Ginger L Dragon, Josefina Guzmán, Francisco Iacobelli, and Xiwei Wang. A Study Of Text Simplification On Breast Cancer Information Targeting A Low Health Literacy Population. 10th SCSE Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, September 2018.
  • Pragati Shrivastava, Athanasia Valis, Oguzcan Adabuk, Xiwei Wang, and Francisco Iacobelli. A Dialogue System to Educate About Breast Cancer. 2017 Latino Health Symposium hosted by Chicago Medical Organization for Latino Advancement. Chicago, IL, USA. November 11, 2017.