Fan Guo


	I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at School of Computer Science. My advisor is Professor Christos Faloutsos. I'm working on a research project to develop data mining techniques for the study of fly embryo image databases, collaborating with Professor Eric P. Xing and his students. I also worked on click models in web search and dynamic network models. I got a Master of Science degree in May 2008 from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Previously, I received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in July 2005 from Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua Unversity, Beijing, China. I was born in the historic city of Hanzhong. I grew up in the city of Ankang and spent my high school years in Xi'an, Shaanxi.

I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at School of Computer Science. My advisor is Professor Christos Faloutsos.

I'm working on a research project to develop data mining techniques for the study of fly embryo image databases, collaborating with Professor Eric P. Xing and his students. I also worked on click models in web search and dynamic network models.

I got a Master of Science degree in May 2008 from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Previously, I received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in July 2005 from Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua Unversity, Beijing, China.

I was born in the historic city of Hanzhong. I grew up in the city of Ankang and spent my high school years in Xi'an, Shaanxi.

Publication

Chao Liu, Fan Guo, Christos Faloutsos. BBM: Deriving click models from petabyte-scale data. KDD '09, Paris, France, June 2009. [PDF]
Fan Guo, Chao Liu, Anitha Kannan, Tom Minka, Michael Taylor, Yi-Min Wang, Christos Faloutsos. Click chain model in web search. WWW '09, Madrid, Spain, April 2009. [PDF][PPT]
Fan Guo, Chao Liu, Yi-Min Wang. Efficient multiple-click models in web search. WSDM '09, Barcelona, Spain, February 2009. [PDF][PPT]
Lei Li, Wenjie Fu, Fan Guo, Todd C. Mowry, Christos Faloutsos. Cut-and-stitch: efficient parallel learning of linear dynamical systems on SMPs. KDD '08, Las Vegas, NV, August 2008. [PDF][Poster]
Fan Guo, Steve Hanneke, Wenjie Fu, Eric P. Xing. Recovering temporally rewiring networks: a model-based approach. ICML '07, Corvallis, OR, June 2007. [PDF][PPT]
Yanxin Shi, Fan Guo, Wei Wu, Eric P. Xing. GIMscan: a new statistical method for analyzing whole-genome array CGH data. RECOMB '07, Oakland, CA, April 2007. [PDF][PPT][TR]

Workshop:
Fan Guo, Lei Li, Christos Faloutsos. Tailoring click models to user goals. WSCD09: Workshop on web search click data, Barcelona, Spain. [PDF][Poster]

Demonstration:
Fan Guo, Lei Li, Christos Faloutsos, Eric P. Xing. C-DEM: A Multi-Modal Query System for Drosophila Embryo Databases. VLDB'08, Auckland, New Zealand. [PDF][PPT][HTML]

Software

The ViVo and Gcap packages. Adapted from Jia-Yu (Tim) Pan, and here are detailed pages for ViVo and Gcap.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Aug 2005-Present
- M.S., May 2008
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- B.E., July 2005
- Sep 2001 - Jul 2005

Work Experience

In Summer 2009, I'll be an analytics intern with LinkedIn Corporation.
Research Intern at Search Quality & Cyber-Intelligence Lab, Microsoft Research Redmond
- Mentor: Chao Liu
- Manager: Yi-Min Wang
- Duration: 12 weeks (Jun 03, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008)
- Location: Bldg 99, Redmond WA, 98052

Research Intern at Data Mining and Research Group, Yahoo! Inc.
- Mentor: Suju Rajan
- Manager: Pavel Berkhin
- Duration: 13 weeks (May 21, 2007 - Aug 17, 2007)
- Location: Bldg E, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Courses

15-744 Computer Networks*, Spring 2008
15-740 Computer Architecture*, Fall 2007
15-814 Type Systems for Programming Languages*, Fall 2007
15-857 Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems, Fall 2007
10-801 Advanced Topics in Probabilistic Graphical Models, Spring 2007
10-708 Probabilistic Graphical Models, Fall 2006
10-702 Statistical Foundations of Machine Learning, Spring 2006
10-810 Advanced Algorithms and Models for Computational Biology, Spring 2006
15-750 Graduate Algorithms*, Spring 2006
10-705 Intermediate Statistics, Fall 2005
15-781 Machine Learning*, Fall 2005

Teaching Assistants for
15-415 Database Applications, Fall 2008
15-781/10-701 Machine Learning, Fall 2006

Random Links

Bus Schedule: 28X, 61A/B, 61C/D/F, 59U/64A
Carnegie Mellon Activities Board
Carnegie Mellon Shuttle/Escort
Computer Science Department Graduate Programs
CS Lounge Free Food Cam (CMU Only)
Maps of Schenley Park and Frick Park
School of Computer Science Calendar

Friends

Hong Chen, Bin Fu, Lie Gu, Jingrui He, Yuzhe Jin, Lei Li, Tien-ho Lin, Xi Liu, Kyung-Ah Sohn, Hanghang Tong, Xiaohui Wang, Yi Wu, Kun Xu, Wanhong Xu, Duo Zhang, Xin Zhang, Le Zhao
Wenjie Fu, Zhenzhen Kou, Ling Li, Chao Liu, Yan Liu, Vahe Poladian, Monica Rogati, Minglong Shao, Runting Shi, Yanxin Shi, Mengqiu Wang, Xiaofang Wang, Chenyu Wu, Hong Yan, Rong Yan, Yi Zhou

Mailing Address: Wean Hall 4212, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Physical Address: Wean Hall 1315, x8-5941

Last update on: 5/07/2009