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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

About My Publications in Google Scholar Search

My Citation Report of WOS (SCI)

• QuickRBF package

• Shu-An Chen, Yu-Yen Ou*, Tzong-Yi Lee, M.Michael Gromiha*, "Prediction of transporter targets using efficient RBF networks with PSSM profiles and biochemical properties," Accepted by Bioinformatics, 2011.
• Tzong-Yi Lee, Shu-An Chen, Hsin-Yi Hung and Yu-Yen Ou*, "Incorporating distant sequence features and radial basis function networks to identify ubiquitin conjugation sites," Accepted by PLoS ONE, 2011.
• Shu-An Chen, Tzong-Yi Lee, and Yu-Yen Ou*, "Incorporating significant amino acid pairs to identify O-linked glycosylation sites on transmembrane proteins and non-transmembrane proteins," BMC Bioinformatics. 11:536. 2010.
• Yu-Yen Ou, Shu-An Chen, M.Michael Gromiha, "Classification of transporters using efficient radial basis function networks with position-specific scoring matrices and biochemical properties," Accepted by PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. 2010.
• Yu-Yen Ou, Shu-An Chen, M.Michael Gromiha, "Prediction of Membrane Spanning Segments and Topology in beta-barrel Membrane Proteins at Better Accuracy," Journal of Computational Chemistry. Volume 31 Issue 1, Pages 217 - 223. 2010.
• 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]
  

• 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
  

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