Scholar
Tao Chen
Google Scholar ID: KwWiLLUAAAAJ
Google DeepMind
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,720
H-index
16
i10-index
19
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
list available
Contact
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Main research areas include image tweets analysis, categorization, modeling, and recommendation; retweets analysis and prediction; user behavior analysis across multiple social networks; improving top-N recommendation using rich evidence sources of aspects in user reviews; developed WordNews, a web browser extension to help readers learn a second language vocabulary while reading news online; involved in the NUS SMS Corpus collection project.
Research Experience
- Postdoc at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), working with Prof Mark Dredze on social media analysis for public health and natural language processing for healthcare.
Education
- Ph.D. from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS) in April 2016, advised by Prof Min-Yen Kan and affiliated with the Web, Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing Group (WING).
Background
- Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, focusing on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Research interests span social media, multimedia, natural language processing, health informatics, and applied machine learning.
Miscellany
- The WordNews project was funded by the VaSCo (Validating Startup Concept) award (S$10,000) from the National University of Singapore.
