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Researcher
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
1288 Pear Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043
Email: [firstname][initial of lastname] AT microsoft.com |
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I was a PhD
student in
Department of Computer Science at
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. I was working in the
Text Information Management
Group (TIMAN) and the Data and
Information System Group (DAIS). My advisor was Prof.
ChengXiang Zhai.
Research (Selected Publications
»,
Google Scholar)
My research interests include information retrieval
and data mining. I have been working on formal retrieval models, query
understanding and reformulation, Web search relevance and ranking,
mobile and local search, content recommendation, statistical language
modeling, machine learning for information retrieval, contextual and
personalized search, query log analysis, etc.
Recent Honors/Awards
ACM CIKM Best Student Paper Award, 2011
UIUC C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2012
Facebook Fellowship Finalist, 2011
Yahoo!-DAIS Research Excellence Award, 2011
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, 2010
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Finalist, 2010
Professional Activities
Program committee member, CIKM 2012
Program committee member, Poster Program, CIKM 2012
Program committee member, Poster Program, SIGIR 2012
Program committee member, ECIR 2012
Program committee member, CIKM 2011
Program committee member, SIGIR 2011
Program committee member, Poster Program, SIGIR 2011
Program committee member, AIRS 2011
Program committee member, QRU Workshop, SIGIR 2010
Invited Reviewer, Transactions on Information Systems
(TOIS)
Invited Reviewer, Information Processing & Management
(IPM)
Invited Reviewer, Neurocomputing
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