Experience
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2006-2010: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2002-2006: Department of Computer Science, School of EECS, Peking University, Beijing, China
Work Experience
Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, 07/2019 - present
Lead Researcher at Microsoft Research, 10/2016 - 07/2019
Senior Scientist at Yidian Inc., 12/2014 - 10/2016
Researcher at Microsoft Research, 03/2014 - 12/2014
Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research, 08/2012 - 02/2014
Scientist at Yahoo! Labs, 10/2010 - 08/2012
Software Engineer Intern at Facebook Inc., 05/2010 - 08/2010
Research Intern at Yahoo! Labs, 05/2009 - 08/2009 (mentor: Dr. Zhaohui Zheng)
Research Intern at Microsoft Research, 05/2008 - 09/2008 (mentor: Dr. Tie-Yan Liu)
Research Intern at Nokia Research Center, 05/2007 - 08/2007
Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology, 08/2006-10/2010
Professional Activities
Chairs
WSDM 2015 Workshop on Deep Learning for Web Search and Data Mining
ICML2014 Workshop on Knowledge-Powered Deep Learning for Text Mining
WWW2014 Workshop on Vertical Search Relevance
Local Chairs
CIKM: 2013, (ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
Program Committee
AAAI: 2012, 2016 (AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
ACL: 2012 (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
ACML: 2014 (Asian Conference on Machine Learning)
CIKM: 2011, 2012, 2018 (ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
EMNLP: 2012 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)
ICML: 2015 (International Conference on Machine Learning)
ICTIR: 2013 (International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval)
IJCAI: 2013, 2018 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
KDD: 2012, 2017, 2018 (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
KDIR: 2014 (International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval)
NAACL: 2010 (North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
NIPS: 2015 (The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
PAKDD: 2014 (Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
SIGIR: 2013, 2018 (Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference)
WSCD: 2009 (WSDM workshop on Web Search Click Data)
WSDM: 2018 (International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining)
WWW: 2012,2017,2018 (International World Wide Web Conference)
Guest Editor
International Journal of Web Science (IJWS): Special Issue on Social Web Search and Mining (2012)
Invited Reviewer
ACM Computing Surveys: 2014
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS): 2011, 2012
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS): 2015
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST): 2011, 2012, 2014
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB): 2016
Communication of the ACM (CACM): 2012
EURASIP Journal on Information Security: 2014
IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS): 2010
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE): 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018
Information Processing and Management (IPM): 2011
Information Retrieval Journal (IRJ): 2009
Information Sciences: 2014
Information Systems: 2014
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (IJMLC): 2011,2012
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST): 2013
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR): 2010
NeuroComputing (NEUCOM): 2013
Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL): 2011
Soft Computing (SC): 2011
The Computer Journal (COMPJ): 2013
World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ): 2011, 2014