Columbia University
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Sep 2007 ~ Aug 2012, New York, NY, USA
M.Phil. and Ph.D., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research
Interests
Machine learning, data mining, information retrieval with special interests in
large-scale
unsupervised/semi-supervised/supervised/active learning, hashing,
metric
learning, sparse and robust learning, linear/nonlinear dimensionality
reduction,
probabilistic and
computational graphical models, time series modeling and inference,
learning to
rank, and social network analytics.
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
NY, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow Sep. 2012 – Present.
Projects: broad
topics in large-scale machine learning, big data content analysis and
retrieval.
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Research Assistant of Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Sep. 2007 – Aug. 2012.
Projects:
large-scale machine learning for classification and search.
IBM Thomas J.
Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Research Intern of Multimedia Research Group, May 2011 – Sep. 2011.
Projects: label denoising and scalable supervised
learning on big data.
Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, NY, USA
Research Intern of Intelligent Systems Department, May 2010 – Aug. 2010.
Projects: web
data retagging and reranking.
IBM Research Josef
Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship (one
winner worldwide) 2012–2013
Facebook
Fellowship (one of five winners worldwide) 2011–2012
Travel Grant Award from CVPR Doctoral Consortium 2012
Travel Grant Award from UCLA IPAM workshop on Large Scale Multimedia
Search 2012
NSF Financial Travel Assistance Award from the 1st Sino-USA Summer
School in Vision, Learning, and Pattern Recognition 2009
Columbia University Scholarship 2007–2011
Meritorious Winner (14%) in the 17th Annual Mathematical Contest in
Modeling (MCM) 2001
Meritorious Winner (15%) in the 16th Annual Mathematical Contest in
Modeling (MCM) 2000
First Prize (3.69%) in the 9th China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest
in Modeling 2000
IDG’s China Computerworld Scholarship (one of 65 awardees in Mainland
China) 2000
Program
Committee Member: CVPR 2013/2008/2007, ICCV 2013/2011/2007, IJCAI
2013, ACM Multimedia 2013, ACML 2012, ECCV 2008, and ACCV 2007.
Conference Reviewer: NIPS
2013/2012, CVPR 2012/2011/2010/2009/2004, ECCV 2012/2010, and ACM Multimedia
2011/2010/2009.
Journal Reviewer: Journal
of Machine Learning Research, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence,
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, ACM Transactions on Intelligent
Systems and Technology,
Machine Vision and Applications, Pattern Recognition, Information Retrieval,
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation,
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Neurocomputing,
Signal Processing, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Sensors.
Languages: C/C++/C#, Java, SQL,
Pascal.
Applications: Visual Studio .Net, Matlab, Mathematica, LaTeX, and
presentation software.
Operation Systems: Windows 7.0/8.0/Mobile, Unix/Linux.