Yangbo  Zhu   Master Candidate Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Office: 3612 Newell-Simon Hall Email:    Mailing Address: Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue 4502 Newell-Simon Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Welcome to my homepage! I am a second year master student of LTI. I am co-advised by Prof. Jamie Callan and Prof. Jaime Carbonell. I am a member of the Distributed IR Group.

Before coming to Pittsburgh, I got my B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University in Beijing. I was a member of NGN Lab. My advisor was Prof. Xing Li.

Research

My current research interests focus on information retrieval. Closely related fields include machine learning, data mining and natural language processing. I enjoy working on ideas that will make it easier for people to find useful information.

Current Projects

• Personalized Search

Past Projects

• Compass Web Search Engine Confederation, NGN Lab, Tsinghua Univ (09/2004 - 07/2006)
• Multi-lingual Desktop Search Engine for Workplace Client Technology (WCT), Extreme Blue Project, IBM China Research Laboratory (07/2005 - 09/2005)
• Search Engines for Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), NGN Lab, Tsinghua Univ (11/2004 - 02/2005)
• Large Vocabulary Continuous Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) Systems, Speech Recognition Lab, Tsinghua Univ. (02/2003 - 07/2003)

Publications [DBLP]

• Yangbo Zhu, Jamie Callan and Jaime Carbonell, The Impact of History Length to Personalized Search (Poster), In Proceeding of the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'08), Singapore. Jul. 2008. (to appear)
• Yangbo Zhu, Le Zhao, Jamie Callan and Jaime Carbonell, Structured Queries for Legal Search, In Proceeding of the 16th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC'07), Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Nov. 2007.
• Yangbo Zhu, Shaozhi Ye, and Xing Li, Distributed PageRank Computation Based on Aggregation-Disaggregation Methods [PDF], In Proceeding of the 14th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'05), Bremen, Germany. Oct. 2005.
• Jingfang Xu, Yangbo Zhu, and Xing Li, An Article Language Model for BBS Search [PDF], Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3579, pp. 152-160, Springer-Verlag, 2005, (in Proceeding of the Fifth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'05), Sydney, Australia. Jul. 2005) Best Student Paper Award [The Plaque]

Theses

• Yangbo Zhu, Distributed PageRank Computation in Search Engine Confederation [PDF], Master's Thesis (in Chinese), Jun. 2006
• Yangbo Zhu, On the Application of LDA Visual Features to Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Systems [PDF], Senior Thesis (in Chinese), Jun. 2003

Presentations

• Distributed PageRank Computation Based on Aggregation-Disaggregation Methods [PPT], CIKM'05, Bremen, Germany, Nov. 2005

Professional Service

• Reviewer, The Third Symposium of Search Engine and Web Mining (SEWM2005), sponsered by China Computer Federation, Beijing, China, Sep. 2005

Membership

• Student Member, SIGIR & ACM

Hobbies :)

Swimming, Tennis, Badminton, Volleyball, Skating, Skiing ...

Last updated: Sep. 15, 2006