Resume
Academic Achievements
- Led NTU team to win 5 KDD Cup championships between 2008–2013 (3rd place in 2009)
- Best Full Paper Award at ASONAM 2011 for "Modeling and Visualizing Information Propagation in a Micro-blogging Platform"
- Published numerous papers in top-tier conferences including KDD, ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICDM, etc., such as:
- — KDD 2015: "Inferring Air Quality for Station Location Recommendation Based on Urban Big Data"
- — KDD 2015: "A Learning-based Framework to handle Multi-round Multi-party influence maximization on social networks"
- — NeurIPS 2015: "A Dual-Augmented Block Minimization Framework for Learning with Limited Memory"
- — ICDM 2015: "LambdaMF: Learning Nonsmooth Ranking Functions in Matrix Factorization Using Lambda"
- — KDD 2014: "Matching Users and Items Across Domains to Improve the Recommendation Quality"
- — ACL 2014: "Enriching Cold Start Personalized Language Model Using Social Network Information"
- — ICML 2014: "Robust Inverse Covariance Estimation under Noisy Measurements"
- — NeurIPS 2014: "Sparse Random Feature Algorithm as Coordinate Descent in Hilbert Space"
- — KDD 2013: Two papers accepted (17% acceptance rate)
- — ICDM 2013: One long paper (11%) and one short paper (19%) accepted
- — ACL 2011: Two papers accepted
- — KDD 2011: One paper accepted