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• Strong interdisciplinary background in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Mining, with wide applications in biomedical science and internet technology.
• Published peer-reviewed papers in journals/conferences like WWW, NIPS TSW, SDM MLREC, PLOS NTDs, EbioMedicine, Biomarker Research, mBio, Respiratory Medicine, etc, with global impact, particularly on child health and online advertisement.
• Reviewed numerous top conferences and journals, such as KDD, IJCAI, CIKM, ECML-PKDD, AAAI, FG, WWW, SIGIR, SDM MLREC, TNNLS, TKDE, IEEE Access, Maternal & Child Nutrition, etc.
Dr. Miao Lu, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Yahoo Research
Email: ml4ey@virginia.edu
Employment
Machine Learning Engineer, Snap Inc, Mar 2020 - Current
Sr. Research Scientist, Yahoo Research, Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Infrastructure Data Scientist Intern, Facebook, May - Aug 2016
Research Intern, Genentech, May - Aug 2015
Education
Ph.D., Statistics, University of Virginia, 2016
M.S., Statistics, University of Virginia, 2014
B.S., Statistics, Zhejiang University, 2012
Publications
• X Wu, S Cetintas, D Kong, M Lu, J Yang, N Chawla, (2020) Learning from Cross-Modal Behavior Dynamics with Graph-Regularized Neural Contextual Bandit, Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW 2020).
• M Lu, LY Tai, J Yang, (2018) An Efficient Time Series Forecasting Framework for Online Traffic, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2018) Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for Recommender Systems.
• H Gao, D Kong, M Lu, X Bai, J Yang, (2018) Attention Convolutional Neural Network for Advertiser-level Click-through Rate Forecasting, World Wide Web (WWW 2018).
• A Zhang, M Lu, D Kong, J Yang, (2017) Bayesian time series forecasting with change point and anomaly detection, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) Time Series Workshop.
• M Lu, J Zhou, C Naylor, BD Kirkpatrick, R Haque, WA Petri, JZ Ma, (2017) Application of penalized linear regression methods to the selection of environmental enteropathy biomarkers, Biomarker Research 5 (1), 9.
• M Lu, J Zhou, (2016) A single index model for censored quantile regression.
• SL Burgess, M Lu, JZ Ma, C Naylor, JR Donowitz, BD Kirkpatrick, R Haque, WA Petri, (2016) Inflammatory markers predict episodes of wheezing during the first year of life in Bangladesh, Respiratory Medicine 110, 53-57.
• JR Donowitz, R Haque, BD Kirkpatrick, M Alam, M Lu, M Kabir, SH Kakon, ..., WA Petri, (2016) Small intestine bacterial overgrowth and environmental enteropathy in Bangladeshi children, MBio 7 (1), e02102-15.
• PS Korpe, R Haque, C Gilchrist, C Valencia, F Niu, M Lu, ..., WA Petri, (2016) Natural history of cryptosporidiosis in a longitudinal study of slum-dwelling Bangladeshi children: association with severe malnutrition, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 10 (5), e0004564.
• C Naylor, M Lu, R Haque, D Mondal, E Buonomo, U Nayak, JC Mychaleckyj, BD Kirkpatrick, ..., WA Petri, (2015)) Environmental enteropathy, oral vaccine failure and growth faltering in infants in Bangladesh, EBioMedicine 2 (11), 1759-1766.
Working Papers
• Z Yao, D Kong, M Lu, J Yang, Estimating Conversion for Cold-Start Ads: Campaign Representation Learning with Heterogeneous Information.
• D Kong, M Lu, K Shmakov, J Yang, Robust Consensus Clustering and its Applications for Advertiser Segmentation and Forecasting.
• A Zhang, M Lu, D Kong, J Yang, Bayesian time series forecasting with change point and anomaly detection.
Summer Interns
• Anderson Ye Zhang (Yale University)
• Zijun Yao (Rutgers University)
• Hongchang Gao (University of Pittsburgh)
• Yuhao Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Xian Wu (University of Notre Dame)
Talks
• Campaign Representation Learning in Advertisement,
Applied AI Summit, San Francisco, 2019.
• An Efficient Time Series Forecasting Framework for Online Traffic,
SDM Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for Recommender Systems, San Diego, 2018.
• Deep Learning in Advertisement,
Deep Learning Summit, San Francisco, 2018.
• Bayesian time series forecasting with change point and anomaly detection,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Time Series Workshop, Long Beach, 2017.
• Robust time series forecasting with change points and anomaly points,
Yahoo Tech Pulse, Santa Clara, 2017.
• Estimating Treatment Effect in Time to Relapse When Patients Switch Treatment,
Eastern North American Region (ENAR), Austin, 2016.
• A Single Index Model for Censored Quantile Regression,
Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), London, 2015.
• Overview of Variable Selection and Its Application in Biomarker Data Analysis,
Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Seattle, 2015.
• Cryptosporidiosis: Epidemiology and Correlates of Immunity in Bangladeshi Children,
Proceedings of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), New Orleans, 2014.
• Markers of OPV Failure: Inflammatory and Nutritional Environment Critical Mediators of Vaccine Response,
Proceedings of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), New Orleans, 2014.