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Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
Yuan-Ze University (No. 135 Yuan-Tung Road, Chungli),
Taoyuan, Taiwan, 320
Tel: (886) 3-463-8800 x 2185
Fax: (886) 3-463-8850
Email: yien@csie.org or yien@saturn.yzu.edu.tw

I am now an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan. My fields of professional interest are Bioinformatics, Machine Learning and Data Mining.

Research Interests

Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Data Mining

Research Software

QuickRBF package

Publications

Journal

Yu-Yen Ou, Shu-An Chen, M.Michael Gromiha, "Prediction of Membrane Spanning Segments and Topology in beta-barrel Membrane Proteins at Better Accuracy," accepted by Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2009
Darby Tien-Hao Chang, Yu-Yen Ou, Hao-Geng Hung, Meng-Han Yang, Chien-Yu Chen and Yen-Jen Oyang, "Prediction of protein secondary structures with a novel kernel density estimation based classifier", BMC Research Notes, 1:51, 2008.
Yu-Yen Ou, M.Michael Gromiha, Shu-An Chen, and Makiko Suwa, "TMBETADISC-RBF: Discrimination of beta-barrel membrane proteins using RBF networks and PSSM profiles," Computational Biology and Chemistry, Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 227-231, 2008
Yu-Yen Ou, Shu-An Chen, Chung-Lu Shao, and Hao-Geng Hung, "Using Efficient RBF Network to Identify Interface Residues Based on PSSM Profiles and Biochemical Properties," Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 4774, 2007
Chung-Tsai Su, Tong-Ming Hsu, Chien-Yu Chen, Yu-Yen Ou, Yen-Jen Oyang, "Enhancing Protein Disorder Detection by Refined Secondary Structure Prediction," Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 4414, pp. 395-409, 2007
Chung-Tsai Su, Chien-Yu Chen, and Yu-Yen Ou, "Protein disorder prediction by condensed PSSM considering propensity for order or disorder," BMC Bioinformatics, 7, pp. 319, 2006
Yu-Yen Ou, Guan-Hau Chen, and Yen-Jen Oyang, "Expediting Model Selection for Support Vector Machines Based on an Advanced Data Reduction Algorithm, "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4099, pp. 1017-1021, 2006
Yen-Jen Oyang, Shien-Ching Hwang, Yu-Yen Ou, Chien-Yu Chen, and Zhi-Wei Chen, Data Classification with the Radial Basis Function Network Based on a Novel Kernel Density Estimation Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, pp. 225-236, 2005.[pdf]

Conference

Yu-Yen Ou, Shu-An Chen, M. Michael Gromiha, "Discrimination of beta-barrel Membrane Proteins and theirs Membrane Spanning Segments by using RBF Networks," The 2nd Taiwan-Japan Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Systems Biology, 2008.
Yen-Jen Oyang, Darby Tien-Hao Chang, Yu-Yen Ou, Hao-Geng Hung, and Chien-Yu Chen, "Prediction of Protein Secondary Structures with a Novel Kernel Density Estimator," MLMTA 2007.
Guan-Hau Chen, Shu-An Chen, and Yu-Yen Ou, "Using Position Specific Scoring Matrices to Improve the Prediction Performance of Protein Subnuclear Localization," APBC 2007.
Yu-Yen Ou, Hao-Geng Hung and Yen-Jen Oyang, A Study of Supervised Learning with Multivariate Analysis on Unbalanced Datasets, IJCNN 2006 (WCCI 2006).
Yu-Yen Ou, Shu-An Chen, Using QuickRBF and PSSM profiles to Predict Outer Membrane Proteins, RECOMB2006.
Yen-Jen Oyang, Yu-Yen Ou, Shien-Ching Hwang, Chien-Yu Chen and Darby Tien-Hau Chang, On the Convergence Rate of the Locally Relaxed Variable Kernel Density Estimator, HICStatistics2006 (5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields).
Yen-Jen Oyang, Darby Tien-Hau Chang, Yu-Yen Ou and Chien-Yu Chen, On the Convergence of the Locally Relaxed Kernel Density Estimator, HICStatistics2006 (5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields).
Yu-Yen Ou, Chien-Yu Chen and Yen-Jen Oyang, A Novel Radial Basis Function Network Classifier with Centers Set by Hierarchical Clustering, IJCNN2005.
Yen-Jen Oyang, Yu-Yen Ou, Shien-Ching Hwang, Chien-Yu Chen and Darby Tien-Hau Chang, Data Classification with a Relaxed Model of Variable Kernel Density Estimation, IJCNN2005.
Yu-Yen Ou, Chien-Yu Chen, Shien-Ching Hwang, Yen-Jen Oyang, Expediting Model Selection for Support Vector Machines Based on Data Reduction, In IEEE Proc. SMC, pp. 786-791, 2003. [abstract] [pdf]
Yen-Jen Oyang, Shien-Ching Hwang, Yu-Yen Ou, Chien-Yu Chen, and Zhi-Wei Chen, A Novel Learing Algorithm for Data Classfication with Radial Basis Function Networks, In Proc. of 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Singapore, Nov.18-22, 2002. [pdf]

Education

Ph.D. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering ,
National Taiwan University, September 2000--June 2005.
B.Ed. Department of Math and Computer Science Education,
Taipei Municipal Teachers College, September 1992--June 1996.
Kaohsiung Senior High School, September 1989--June 1992.

Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, August 2005--present.
Chairman, IEEE National Taiwan University Student Branch, July 2004--July 2005.
Full-Time TA, 217 Lab., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering , National Taiwan University, August 2003--July 2004.
System Administrator, Taipei Educational Network Center , August 1999--July 2000.
Military Service, The Army of Taiwan, September 1997--July 1999.
Teacher, Yong-Ji Primary School , August 1996--August 1997.

Awards

Outstanding Alumni Award, Taipei Municipal University of Education, 2007.
Member, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, 2005.
Outstanding Leadership and Service Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005.
First Place, Group 2, Program Contest of Ministry of Education, 1995.
Honorable Mention, Group 2, Program Contest of Ministry of Education, 1994.

Interests

Badminton
The Second Prize of NTU badminton contest 2002
Table Tennis
Photography

My Albums

My Albums

Links

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