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Afflications: Technology and Information Management Program (primary),Computer Science Department, Computer Engineering Department, Applied Math and Statistics Deparment
Ph.D. and M.S., Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Computer Science and Technologies Department, Tsinghua University

Research Interests: information retrieval, knowledge management, natural language processing, data mining and applied machine learning

New: Air Force Research Young Investigator Research Award for the proposal "Adaptive Information Filtering"
National Science Foundation Award for the proposal "Proactive Personalized Information Integration and Retrieval"
ISM 245 Data Mining Course to be offered at Santa Cruz and Mountain View in Winter 2008

Recent Professional Activities:
Program co-Chair (IR), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008),
Program Committee Member, ACM SIGIR 2008
Program Committee Member, ACM SIGKDD 2008
Program Committee Member, ICML 2008

I am interested in students wanting to work in my research areas. If you are well motivated, intelligent, good at mathematics/statistics, and have good programming skills, you are welcome to apply. If you are a PhD student in SOE, please contact me directly. If you are not a Ph.D. student at UCSC, please apply for the Computer Science Department at UCSC and identify Technology and Information Management as one sub area.

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