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+ Career interest:
Developing large-scale information
retrieval systems that harness
Web
data such as
news, blogs,
images, videos, social networks and stock quotes. I am interested
in shepherding ideas from
concepts to
the products that people need and enjoy.
+ Current affiliation (2004 onwards)
software engineer for
the research department of google, in the area of machine learning with
applications to
ad-targeting and image/video
analysis. See
publications and news section for
details.
+ Past endeavours
/ other
- analyst @ Matsukei Venture
Capital (Tokyo).
-- business and technical due diligence on
start-ups related to online advertising and business analytics.
- researcher / analyst @ dentsu (Tokyo).
-- quantitative market research / development
of data-mining, social-network analysis software.
- software Engineer Intern @
united nations
- ph.d. candidate @ georgia tech (machine learning,
statistical models and computer vision)
- grew up in
China, Japan and U.S. and speak three languages.
+ Selected Publications, News and
Recognition: (Publication lists)
- Image and
video search
- A
Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search
New York Times, 2008-04-28
- VisualRank,
applying PageRank to Google image search
IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) , 2008-09
- Technology assistance to National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children.
Reuters, BBC, 2008-05
- A
farewell to Keywords
Scientific
American, 2006-05
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Social network analysis for [ads-targeting | video recommendation]
- Swarming
the Shelves -- how shops can exploit people's herd mentality to
increase sales.
The Economist, 2006-11-11,
p.90 (technology developed for dentsu corp. cited here.
- Video Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2008-04
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Machine Learning
- Boosted Bayesian Network Classifiers
Machine Learning Journal, 2008-10
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Boosted Augmented Naive Bayes
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2005 (Best Student Paper)
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