Campus Address	Zhenzhen Kou zkou@andrew.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~woomy	Home Address
MLD, SCS, CMU 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268 8078		331 Devonshire Street, A7 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 215 7542

Objective	Seeking a position that best applies my strong quantitative skills and financial knowledge.
Education	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
	Ph.D. in Machine Learning, December 2007 Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science Dissertation: Stacked Graphical Learning; Thesis advisor: William W. Cohen
	Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China
	M.Sc. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System, June 2002
	Tsinghua University , Beijing, P.R.China
	B.E. in Automation, May 2000 GPA: 88.0/100, rank 2nd in the class
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS	Strong Computational and Mathematical Background, Team Player, Hard Working, Quick Learner
	Computer Skills
	Languages: C, C++, Java, Matlab, PHP, JSP, Perl, SQL
	Quantitative Finance
	Finance Theory, Probability and Statistics, Time Series, Computational Numerical Methods
Experience	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
	Research Assistant	Aug. 2002 ~ Present
	Worked on developing statistical machine learning models and analyzing large-scale datasets, which has wide applications in asset management and statistical arbitrage Developed an improved hidden Markov model for analyzing sequential data Developed and implemented a statistical relational model, stacked graphical learning, for categorizing relational data Designed and implemented an SQL database and a web-based user interface
	Teaching Assistant	Jan. 2005 ~ Dec. 2005
	Assisted teaching and project design of Database Applications and Machine Learning courses
	IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY
	Technical Co-op, Math. Dept.	May 2007 ~ Aug. 2007
	Worked with Yan Liu to develop a statistical model for movie recommendation to Netflix user, which ranks as the Second Runner-up in the KDD Cup 07 contest
	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
	Research Assistant	Aug. 2000 ~ Jun. 2002
	Designed and implemented image processing algorithms for texture analysis Applied Statistical Learning Theory to image classifications
sELECTED course project	Hedge Fixed Income Portfolio Index using key-rate-duration – a course project in Optimization Methods in Finance	Nov. 2006 ~ Dec. 2006
	Constructed a fixed income portfolio that replicates a Treasury bond index and hedged its exposures to some key-rate-durations Implemented this hedging methodology via minimizing exposure error, transaction cost with penalty on number of bond used
AWARDS	Honor of Outstanding Graduate (awarded to top 2% graduates), Tsinghua University, 2000 Fellowship with tuition waiver, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002-2007 Second Runner-up for Task 1 in KDD Cup contest, 2007
sELECTED PUBLICATIONS	· 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. · 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). · Zhenzhen Kou, William W. Cohen & Robert F. Murphy (2007): A Stacked Graphical Model for Associating Information from Text And Images In Figures, in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Maui, 2007. · Zhenzhen Kou, William W. Cohen & Robert F. Murphy (2005): High-Recall Protein Entity Recognition Using a Dictionary, Bioinformatics. 2005 Jun;21 Suppl 1:i266-73. · Robert F. Murphy, Zhenzhen Kou, Juchang Hua, Matthew Joffe, 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 & 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. · Zhenzhen Kou, Liang Ji and Xuegong Zhang(2001), Karyotyping of CGH human metaphase by using support vector machines, Cytometry, December 2001. · 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.