Jiang Bian

I am a fourth year PhD student at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. My advisor is Dr. Hongyuan Zha. My current research focuses mostly on Information Retrieval, Web/Text Mining and Machine Learning. I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science from Peking University in 2006. My adivsor in Peking University is Dr. Yafei Dai.

Contact Information

Email: jbian3 (at) mail (dot) gatech (dot) edu

Office: Room 1305, Klaus Advanced Computing Building, 266 Ferst Dr., Atlanta, GA - 30332

Resume Publication Research Project Work Experience Courses Education My friends Important Conference Enjoying Search

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Publication

Jiang Bian, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hongyuan Zha. Ranking with Query-Dependent Loss for Web Search to appear Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, New York City, US (WSDM2010)

Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Ding Zhou, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyuan Zha. Learning to Recognize Reliable Users and Content in Social Media with Coupled Mutual Reinforcement Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference, Madrid, Spain (WWW2009)pdf

Eugene Agichtein, Yandong Liu, Jiang Bian. Modeling Information Seeker Satisfaction in Community Question Answering ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

Yandong Liu, Jiang Bian and Eugene Agichtein. Predicting Information Seeker Satisfaction in Community Question Answering The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Singapore (SIGIR2008)pdf

Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein and Hongyuan Zha. Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference, Beijing, China (WWW2008) pdf

Ding Zhou, Jiang Bian, Shuyi Zheng, Giles Lee and Hongyuan Zha. Exploring Social Annotations for Information Retrieval Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference, Beijing, China (WWW2008)pdf

Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein and Hongyuan Zha. A Few Bad Votes Too Many? Towards Robust Ranking in Social Media The 4th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, Beijing, China (AIRWeb 2008)pdf


Research Project

Large Scale Topical Ranking. (May 2009 - Oct 2009)

Ensemble Ranking. (May 2009 - Aug 2009)

Keyword Extraction from CQA Thread. (Feb 2009 - Aug 2009)

Learning Query's Aspect. (Aug 2008 - Dec 2008)

Learning to Rank Using Query-Dependent Loss Function. (May 2008 - Dec 2008)

Finding High Quality Content in Social Media. (Dec 2007 - May 2008)

Robust Ranking in Social Media. (Nov 2007 - Dec 2007)

Factoid Question Answering over Social Media. (Aug 2007 - Nov 2007)

Filtering Social Annotations for Web Retrieval. (Jan 2007 - May 2007)

Exploring Social Annotations for Information Retrieval. (Oct 2006 - Jan 2007)


Work Experience

Summer 2009: Yahoo! Labs, at Sunnyvale. (Advisor: Dr. Zhaohui Zheng and Dr. Xin Li)

Project: Large-Scale Topical Ranking & Ensemble Ranking.

Summer 2008: Microsoft Research Asia, at Beijing. (Advisor: Dr. Tie-Yan Liu)

Project: Query Dependent Loss for Ranking.

Summer 2007: Nokia Research Center, at Palo Alto. (Advisor: Joe McCarthy)

Project: A New Generation of Proactive Displays: Displaying Social Media Streams in the Workplace.


Courses

 


Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2006: Department of Computer Science, School of EECS, Peking University, China .

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Candidate: College of Computing, Georgia Institutes of Technology, U.S.


My Friends

Dr.Ding Zhou, Dr.Ming Hua at Facebook Inc.

Ting Wang, Shicong Meng, Cong Shi, Shuang Hao, Shuanghong Yang, Da Kuang at Georgia Tech.

Tao Jin at Northeastern Univ.

Dr.Yuanyuan Tian at IBM Research at Almaden.

Dr. Bo Xing at Ericsson Research.

Yandong Liu at CMU.

Prof.Eugene Agichtein, Qiaoling Liu at Emory Univ.

Dr.Tao Qin, Xiubo Geng, Yanyan Lan, Yin He, Wei Chen, Dr.Tie-Yan Liu at Microsoft Research Asia.

Dr.Yuting Liu at Beijing Jiaotong Univ.

Junming Huang at Chinese Academy of Science

Shuyi Zheng, Mu Qiao at Penn State Univ.

Yue Lu at Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Xin Li, Yi Chang, Fan Li, Ziming Zhuang, Zhaohui Zheng, Zhenzhen Kou, Lei Duan, Mingrui Wu, Jiang Chen, Anlei Dong, Jianzhang He, Shihao Ji, Bo Long, Longbin Chen, Jing Bai, at Yahoo! Labs


Important Conference (deadline)

Jan -- SIGIR

Feb -- ICML, KDD, ACL

Mar --

Apr --

May -- CIKM

Jun --

Jul -- EMNLP

Aug -- WSDM

Sep --

Oct --

Nov -- WWW, ICWSM

Dec --


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