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Education

Work Experience

Talks & Presentations

  • “Tracking Trends: Incorporating Term Volumes into Temporal Topic Models” at the the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2011), San Diego, CA, Aug, 2011. [slides]
  • “Temporal Topic Modeling” at Yahoo! Labs, Sunnyvale, June, 2011
  • “Understanding and Predicting Popular Messages in Twitter”  at Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, March, 2011.
  • “Web Mining for Wikipedia ”  at Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, December, 2010.
  • “Empirical Study of Topic Modeling in Twitter”  at the 1st Workshop on Social Media Analytics (SOMA 2010), held in conjunction the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2010), Washington, DC., USA, July 25 – July 28, 2010.
  • “Exploring and Understanding Social Media” at Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, November, 2009.
  • “Tag Recommendation Using Keywords and Association Rules” at the 2009 ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge Workshop, Bled, Slovenia, September 2009.
  • “Incorporating Participant Reputation in Community-driven Question Answering Systems” at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Vancouver, August 2009.
  • “A Classification-Based Approach to Question Answering in Discussion Boards” at the 32st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Boston, July 2009.

Awards and Honors

  • KDD 2011 Student Travel Grant 2011
  • WWW 2011 Best Poster Award 2011
  • IBM SOMA 2010 Travel Grant 2010
  • SIGIR 2009 Travel Grant 2009
  • BASF Scholarship 2005-2006
  • Class II of People’s Scholarship 2005-2006
  • Certificate of Achievement of The ACM Asia Programming Contest 2005
  • The Second Prize of C Programming Language Group,
    – National Information Technology and Appliance Training Education 2005
  • Outstanding Individual in Undergraduate Education Evaluation 2005
  • Excellent Student 2004-2005
  • Class III of People’s Scholarship 2004-2005
  • Excellent Student Leader 2004
  • Excellent Student 2003-2004

Reviewers

  • Conferences:
    SIGIR 2011, 2010, 2009
    WSDM 2012, 2009
    KDD 2011, 2010, 2008
    WWW 2012, 2010
    ICWSM 2011, 2010
    ICDM 2009
    SocialCom 2009, AIRWEB 2009, IR SN 2009 Workshop, WBBTMine 2008

Memberships

  • ACM Student Member
  • IEEE Student Member

Collaborators

  • Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University
  • Dawei Yin, Lehigh University
  • Ovidiu Dan, Lehigh University
  • Zaihan Yang, Lehigh University
  • Zhenzhen Xue, Lehigh University
  • Byron Dom, Yahoo! Labs (Retired)
  • Siva Gurumurthy, Yahoo! Labs
  • Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Twitter
  • Alex Smola, Yahoo! Labs
  • Amr Ahmed, Yahoo! Labs
  • Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo! Labs
  • Jian Guo, Harvard University
  • Ron Bekkerman, LinkedIn