I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am working in the Text Information Management Group (TIMAN) and the Data and Information System Group (DAIS). My advisor is Prof. ChengXiang Zhai.

My research interests include information retrieval, Web search, text mining, natural language processing, and machine learning.

Office:  4333 Siebel Center, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: ylv2 at uiuc dot edu