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Xiaolong Wang Ph.D Candidate Office: 2113 Siebel Center (direction) 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: xwang95 AT illinois DOT edu |
I joined Computer Science Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2011. I work with Prof. Chengxiang Zhai in TIMan group.
Before that, I did my bachelor of both computer science and statistics at Peking University from 2007-2011.
My Curriculum Vitae is available for download here.
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval.
Selected Publications
- Xiaolong Wang, Furu Wei, Xiaohua Liu, Ming Zhou, Ming Zhang: Topic sentiment analysis in twitter: a graph-based hashtag sentiment classification approach. CIKM 2011: 1031-1040
- Xiaolong Wang, Ming Zhang: Let Other Users Help You Find Answers: A Collaborative Question-Answering Method with Continuous Markov Chain Model. APWeb 2011: 264-270
- Fei Yan, Xiaolong Wang, Ming Zhang, Zhi-Hong Deng: Analysis of the structure and evolution of the co-borrowing network in Peking University library. FSKD 2010: 2751-2755
Research Experience
| 2012.5.-2012.8. | Research Software Develope Engineer, Index and Knowledge, Bing, With Principle SDE Jinxi Xu Bing, Microsoft, Bellevue, WA |
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| 2010.10.-2011.8. | Research Intern, Natural Language Computing Group, With Asso. Researcher Furu Wei Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China |
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| 2010.6. -2010.9. | Research
Assistant, Center for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing, With Prof. Jason Cong University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2008.5.-2010.6. | Research Assistant, Digital Library (Dlib) Group, With Prof. Ming Zhang Peking University, Beijing, China |
Teaching Experience
| 2013 Spring | Teaching Assistant | CS 410: Text Information System |
Honors and Awards
- Computer Science Excellence Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010-2011)
- Machine Learning Summer School Scholarship, National University of Singapore (2011)
- CASIC (China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation) Scholarship, Peking University (2010-2011)
- Samsung Scholarship, Peking University (2009-2010)
- Silver Medal, ACM Asia Programming Contest, Harbin Site 2008, Oct.12, 2008 (Place 20)
- Silver Medal, ACM Asia Programming Contest, Beijing Site 2008, Sep.13, 2008 (Place 10)
- The ACM Asia Programming Contest, Peking University Preliminary 2008, 21th Place, May 10, 2008
- Award of Tencent Cup Programming Contest, Beijing, China, May 2008
Courses in Illinois
| CS412 | Introduction to Data Mining | (Fall '11 by Prof. J. Han) |
| CS466 | Machine Learning | (Fall '11 by Prof. D. Roth) |
| CS598CXZ | Advanced Information Retrieval | (Fall '11 by Prof. C. Zhai) |
| CS410 | Text Information System | (Spring '12 by Prof. C. Zhai) |
| CS512 | Data Mining: Principle and Algorithm | (Spring '12 by Prof. J. Han) |
| CS546 | Machine Learning and Natural Language | (Spring '12 by Prof. D. Roth) |
| CS450 | Numerical Analysis | (Fall '12 by Prof. M. Heath) |
| MATH484 | Nonlinear Optimization | (Fall '12 by Prof. B. Lidicky) |
| IE521 | Convex Optimization | (Fall '12 by Prof. A. Nedich) |
| CS598DAF | Vision, Learning, AI & NLP | (Spring '13 by Prof. D. Forsyth) |
| CS598JHM | Advanced NLP | (Spring '13 by Prof. J. Hockenmaier) |
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