Zhenzhen Kou
Yahoo!
Search Sciences
2821
Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Email:
zzkou@yahoo-inc.com, Phone: (408)
336-0895
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY |
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Dr.
Zhenzhen Kou is a Relevance Scientist in
Search Sciences Department at Yahoo!. Kou
received her Ph.D. (2007) in Machine Learning Department from Carnegie Mellon
University’s School of computer Science, and joined Yahoo! in
2008. Her
research interests include machine learning and data/text mining, especially
relational data mining, information retrieval, and collaborative filtering. |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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Yahoo! Inc., Feb. 2008 - present Search Relevance Scientist Research areas: information retrieval and machine learning Carnegie Mellon University, May. 2005 – Dec. 2007 Research Assistant, CALO
project Research areas: information extraction, statistical
relational learning, and data mining |
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Carnegie Mellon University, Sep. 2002 –May. 2005 Research Assistant, SLIF project Research areas: image analysis, named entity extraction, web interface
design for an SQL database IBM TJ Watson Research
Center,
May 2007 –
Aug. 2007 Technical Co-op, Math. Dept. Research: worked with Yan Liu to develop a link prediction
model for movie recommendation, which ranks as the Second Runner-up in the KDD Cup 07
competition; compared the performance of several learning algorithms applied
to job category classification for IBM employees |
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Tsinghua
University,
Aug. 2000 ~ June 2002 Research Assistant, Bioinformatics group Research: worked on an image
analysis system for curative effect judgement for
Traditional Chinese Medicine. Research involved designing and implementing
image processing algorithms for texture analysis and applying Statistical
Learning Theory to image classifications. Student
Research Training (SRT) Program,
Tsinghua University, Aug. 1998 ~ Aug. 1999 Designed and maintained the
user interface of Open Bookmark Service System in Internet. |
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ACADEMIC SERVICE |
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Program Committee Member, ICML
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PUBLICATIONS |
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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS |
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• Zhenzhen
Kou, William W.
Cohen and Robert F. Murphy (2005): High-Recall Protein Entity Recognition Using a
Dictionary, Bioinformatics. 2005 Jun; 21 Suppl
1:i266-73. • Zhenzhen
Kou, Liang Ji and Xuegong Zhang(2001), Karyotyping of CGH human metaphase by using support
vector machines, Cytometry, December 2001. |
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CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS •Yan Liu, Zhenzhen Kou, Claudia Perlich and Richard
Lawrence (2008): Intelligent System for Workforce Classification, in KDD 2008 Workshop on Data Mining
for Business Applications. •Zhenzhen Kou, Vitor R. Carvalho
and William W.
Cohen (2007): Online Stacked Graphical Learning, in NIPS 2007 Workshop on
Efficient Machine Learning. •Yan
Liu and Zhenzhen Kou
(2007): Predicting
Who Rated What in Large-Scale Datasets, in Proceedings of KDD Cup and
Workshop 2007, San Jose, CA, 2007. •Zhenzhen
Kou and
William W. Cohen (2007): Stacked Graphical Models for Efficient Inference in Markov Random
Fields, in SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM07),
Minneapolis, MN, 2007. |
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• Zhenzhen
Kou, William
W. Cohen and Robert F. Murphy (2007), A Stacked Graphical Model for
Associating Information from Text And Images In Figures, in Pacific
Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 07), Maui, 2007. •
Robert F. Murphy, Zhenzhen Kou, Juchang Hua,
Matthew Joffe and William W. Cohen (2004): Extracting and
Structuring Subcellular Location Information from
On-line Journal Articles: The Subcellular Location
Image Finder, in Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering (KSCE
2004), Virgin Islands, 2004. • Zhenzhen
Kou, William
W. Cohen and Robert F. Murphy (2003): Extracting Information from Text and Images for
Location Proteomics, in 3rd Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
(BIOKDD), Washington D.C., 2003. |
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• Zhenzhen
Kou, Jianhua Xu, Xuegong
Zhang and Liang Ji(2001), An Improved Support Vector Machine Using
Class-Median Vectors, in 8th International Conference on Neural
Information Processing, Shanghai, China, 2001. |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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Teaching Assistant, “Machine Learning(10-701)”, Carnegie Mellon University, Jan. – May.
2005 Teaching Assistant, “Database Applications(15-415)”, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug. – Dec.
2005 Teaching Assistant, “Signals and System Analysis”, Tsinghua University, Sep. 2000 ~ Jan. 2001 |
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TALKS |
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Oral Presentation, “Predicting Who Rated What in
Large-Scale Datasets”, in KDD Cup Workshop, San Jose, CA, Aug. 2007 |
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Oral Presentation, “A Stacked Graphical Model for Associating
Information from Text And Images In Figures”, in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Maui, Jan. 2007 |
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Invited talk, “Stacked Graphical Learning”, in Nielsen BuzzMetrics
Pittsburgh, Oct. 2006 |
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Oral Presentation, “High-Recall Protein Entity
Recognition Using a Dictionary”, in 13th
International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB),
Detroit, Aug. 2005 |
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Oral Presentation, “Extracting Information from
Text and Images for Location Proteomics”, in 3rd Workshop on Data Mining in
Bioinformatics (BIOKDD), Washington D.C., Aug. 2003 |
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REFERENCES |
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William W. Cohen Associate Research Professor Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 412-268-7664 |
Robert F. Murphy Professor Departments of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Machine
Learning Carnegie Mellon University 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-3480 |
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Tom Mitchell Professor Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 412-268-2611 |
Christos Faloutsos Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 412-268-1457 |
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Gordon Sun Research Director 2821 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 408-349-4286 |
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