Brook Wu

(Brook Wu; Yi-fang Brook Wu)

Associate Professor, Ying Wu College of Computing
About Me
Brook Wu received her M.S. in Information Resources Management from Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in Information Science from State University of New York at Albany. Her current research interests include: text mining, information extraction, knowledge organization, information retrieval, and natural language processing. More specifically, she is working on research topics such as fake news early detection on social media, and developing an automated feedback system to support student learning in a Writing-to-Learn environment.
Education
Ph.D.; SUNY at Albany; Information Science; 2001
M.S.; Syracuse University; Information Resources Management; 1996
B.B.A.; Tamkang University; Management Information Systems; 1993
Website
http://web.njit.edu/~wu
2026 Fall Courses
IS 491 - SENIOR PROJECT - IS
IS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
YWCC 591 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXPER II
YWCC 592 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXPER III
YWCC 410 - WORK EXPERIENCE II
IS 489 - INFO UNDERGRAD THESIS RESEARCH
IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
YWCC 590 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXPER I
IS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN INFO
IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
IS 776 - IS RESEARCH STUDY
IT 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
IS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
YWCC 411 - WORK EXPERIENCE III
IS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
YWCC 310 - WORK EXPERIENCE I
Teaching Interests
Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Introductory to Information Systems.
Past Courses
IS 245: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
IS 265: INTRO TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS
IS 265: INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS
IS 392: WEB MINING & INFOR RETRIEVAL
IS 634: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
IS 677: INFORMATION SYSTEM PRINCIPLES
IS 788: INFO SYSTEM PHD SEMINAR
IS 791: DOCTORAL SEMINAR
Research Interests
text mining, information extraction, knowledge representation, information retrieval, and fake news early detection.
Journal Article
Yang Liu, Wei Xiong, Ye Xiong, Yi-Fang Brook Wu. 2023. "Generating Timely Individualized Feedback to Support Student Learning of Conceptual Knowledge in Writing-to-Learn Activities." Journal of Computers in Education, pp. 1-33.
Yang Liu, Yi-Fang Wu. 2020. "FNED: A Deep Network for Fake News Early Detection on Social Media." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 33.
P J Tsai, S C Chen, C Y Hsu, C W Wu, Brook Wu, C S Hung, A C Yang, P Y Liu, Bharat Biswal, C P Lin. 2014. "Local awakening: regional reorganizations of brain oscillations after sleep.." NeuroImage, vol. 102 Pt 2, pp. 894-903.
Lian Duan, Songhua Xu, Brook Wu. "Selecting the Right Correlation Measure for Binary Data." ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
C W Wu, P Y Liu, P J Tsai, Brook Wu, C S Hung, Y C Tsai, K H Cho, Bharat Biswal, C J Chen, C P Lin. 2012. "Variations in connectivity in the sensorimotor and default-mode networks during the first nocturnal sleep cycle.." Brain connectivity, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 177-90.
Conference Proceeding
"Understanding Students’ Perceptions of an Automated Feedback System: an Empirical Study Based on UTAUT"
Twenty-fifth Americas Conference on Information Systems, August, 2019.
"Early Detection of Fake News on Social Media through Propagation Path Classification with Recurrent and Convolutional Networks"
AAAI, February, 2018.
"Write-and-learn: promoting meaningful learning through concept map-based formative feedback on writing assignments"
ACM, March, 2017.
"Graph-based Link Prediction in Cross-session Task Identification"
2015 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN 2015), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2015.
"Learning to Rank with only Positive Examples"
Proceedings of the13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2014), December, 2014.
"User Profiling for Query Refinement"
Proceedings of 2014 Americas Conference on Information Systems, August, 2014.
Chapter
M. Zhu, Brook Wu, M. S. Vasavada, Jason T. Wang. "Learning to Rank Biomedical Documents with Only Positive and Unlabeled Examples: A Case Study." In Biological Data Mining and Its Applications in Healthcare, Xiaoli Li, See-Kiong Ng and Jason T.L. Wang, eds., pp. 373-392. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013.
Brook Wu, Quanzhi Li. "Deriving Document Keyphrases For Text Mining." In Min Song and Brook Wu, eds., IGI Blobal, 2009.
Brook Wu, Xin Chen. "Exploiting User’S Background Knowledge To Discover Personalized Novel Knowledge From Text." In Min Song and Brook Wu, eds., IGI Blobal, 2009.
Quanzhi Li, Brook Wu. "Web Mining To Identify People Of Similar Background." In Min Song and Brook Wu, eds., IGI Blobal, 2009.
Other
"Co-authorship Network Analysis for NJIT Faculty "
Innovation & Collaboration Research Showcase, March, 2011.
Book
Min Song, Brook Wu. "Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies." 964 pages pp. IGI Blobal, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59904-990-8.