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  • Associate General Chair of KDD 2012;
  • Industry co-chair of CIKM 2012
  • Co-chair of ADKDD 2012
  • Co-chair of Workshop on Web Entity Modeling and Applications
    • Work Experience
  • Director, Baidu, 2012 - Now
  • Senior Director, CityGrid Media, 2011 - 2012
  • Co-Founder, Buzzlabs, 2010/12 - 2011/04 (Acquired by CityGrid)
  • Research Program Manager, 2009/05 - 2010/11
  • Applied Researcher, Microsoft, 2007/08 - 2009/05
    • Education
  • Phd: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, with supervisor Prof. Qiang Yang
  • Master: Tsinghua University, with supervisor Prof. Yuchang Lu
  • Bachelor: North China Electric Power University (Beijing)
    • Publication
  • Transfer Learning with Graph Co-Regularization. AAAI 2012
  • Topic Mining over Asynchronous Text Sequences. IEEE TKDE 24(1): 2012
  • Short Text Classification Improved by Learning Multi-Granularity Topics. IJCAI 2011
  • Learning with click graph for query intent classification. ACM TOIS. 28(3): 2010
  • Exploiting term relationship to boost text classification. CIKM 2009
  • Personal name classification in web queries. WSDM 2008
  • Document Summarization Using Conditional Random Fields. IJCAI 2007
  • Building bridges for web query classification. SIGIR 2006
  • Web-page summarization using clickthrough data. SIGIR 2005
  • Web-page classification through summarization. SIGIR 2004
  • More on DBLP
  • More on Google Scholar
    • Patents
  • Predicting Future Queries from Log Data, US7979415
  • Building Bridges for Web Query Classification, US7774360
  • Method and system for classifying display pages using summaries, US7392474
  • Defining User Intent
  • Action-aware Intent-based Behavior Targeting
  • More
    • Awards
  • Microsoft Gold Star Award 2010
  • Microsoft Gold Star Award 2009
  • Winners of the ACM KDDUP 2005 (More Info)
  • Microsoft Research Asia Fellow 2004
    • Professional Activities
    Organizer
  • Sponsorship co-Chair of KDD 2013
  • Associate General Chair of KDD 2012
  • Industry co-chair of CIKM 2012
  • co-Chairs of ADKDD'12; ADKDD'11; ADKDD'10; ADKDD'09; ADKDD'08; ADKDD'07
  • co-Chair of WEMA'12
    • Senior PC Memeber
  • IJCAI'11
  • KDD'10
    • PC Memeber
  • SDM'13; WWW'13; BigData'13(Research; Industry); KDD'13 (Research; Industry)
  • WWW'12; WSDM'12; AAAI'12
  • SIGIR'11; AAAI'11 ; WSDM'11;WWW'11; ACL-HLT'11; KDD'11
  • WWW'10; WSDM'10; AAAI'10; SIGIR'10; CIKM'10; COLING'10; ICDM'10; NMNLP'10
  • SIGIR09; WWW'09; SDM'09; CIKM'09; ICDM'09; EMNLP'09
  • KDD'08; AAAI'08; WWW'08; WSDM'08; CIKM'08