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Jyun-Yu Jiang
姜俊宇
Room 3551, Boelter Hall, Department of Computer Science
University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
+1-213-378-3894 (mobile)
[email protected]
http://jyunyu.csie.org/
Last Updated: 2016/10/10
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
— Ph.D. in Computer Science
September 2016 - Present
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
— M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE)
— G.P.A. 4.18/4.30
September 2013 - July 2015
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
— B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE)
— G.P.A. 3.94/4.00 (Major) 3.76/4.00 (Overall)
September 2009 - June 2013
Research Interests
Web Search and Information Retrieval
- Designing solutions to improve performance of information retrieval and web search in diverse perspectives
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Designing solutions to mine knowledge from data and apply them to deal with various problems
Machine Learning Application
- Solving practical problems based on well-designed machine learning algorithms and theoretical foundations
Publications
[10] Jyun-Yu Jiang and Cheng-Te Li. “Forecasting Geosensor Data Anytime and Anywhere with
Participatory Sensing,” in Proceedings of The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016).
[9] Jyun-Yu Jiang and Pu-Jen Cheng. “Classifying User Search Intents for Query Auto-Completion,” in
Proceedings of The 2nd ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2016).
[8] Jyun-Yu Jiang and Cheng-Te Li. “Analyzing Social Event Participants for a Single Organizer,” in
Proceedings of AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016).
[7] Jyun-Yu Jiang, Jing Liu, Chin-Yew Lin and Pu-Jen Cheng. “Improving Ranking Consistency for Web
Search by Leveraging a Knowledge Base and Search Logs,” in Proceedings of The 24th ACM International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015).
[6] Jyun-Yu Jiang, Yen-Yu Ke, Pao-Yu Chien and Pu-Jen Cheng. “Learning User Reformulation Behavior
for Query Auto-Completion,” in Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014).
[5] Jyun-Yu Jiang, Chin-Yew Lin and Pu-Jen Cheng. “Entity-driven Type Hierarchy Construction for
Freebase,” in Proceedings of 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015).
[4] Jyun-Yu Jiang, Chun-Liang Li, Chun-Pai Yang and Chung-Tsai Su. “Scanning-free Personalized
Malware Warning System by Learning Implicit Feedback from Detection Logs,” in Proceedings of the 21st
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2014).
[3] Jyun-Yu Jiang, Yi-Shiang Tzeng, Pei-Ying Huang and Pu-Jen Cheng. “Analyzing the Spatiotemporal
Effects on Detection of Rain Event Duration,” in Proceedings of the 8th Asia Information Retrieval
Societies Conference (AIRS 2012).
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[2] Yi-Shiang Tzeng, Jyun-Yu Jiang and Pu-Jen Cheng. “Event Duration Detection on Microblogging,” in
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and
Intelligent Agent Technology (WI 2012).
[1] K.-W. Wu, C.-S. Ferng, C.-H. Ho, A.-C. Liang, C.-H. Huang, W.-Y. Shen, J.-Y. Jiang, et al. “A
Two-Stage Ensemble of Diverse Models for Advertisement Ranking in KDD Cup 2012”,
presented in KDDCup 2012 Workshop (KDDCUP 2012). (First Prize of Track 2).
Awards and Honors
ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant for CIKM 2016
2016
ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant for ICTIR 2016
2016
ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant for CIKM 2015
2015
TAAI Master Thesis Award
- Only 3 places for master theses related to artificial intelligence in Taiwan
2015
ACLCLP Master Thesis Award
- Only 3 places for master theses related to natural language processing in Taiwan
2015
Distinguished and Excellent Teaching Assistant Award
ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant for SIGIR 2014
2015
2014
College Student Research Creativity Award from National Science Council (NSC)
2013
- Awarded by NSC, out of more than 2,000 college students supported to participate in research projects
First Prize, Track 2 in KDD Cup 2012 with NTU Team
2012
NTU Outstanding Scholarship Award
- Awarded by NTU, only three places for students in NTU
2012
Garmin Scholarship
- Only 17 places for EE and CS departments graduate and PhD students in Taiwan
2014
First place, Trend Micro Big Data Innovation Programming Contest
2013
- Proposed to apply machine learning to predict potential malware, out of more than 50 teams in Taiwan
Finalist, National Health-Data Value Added Models Contest
- Proposed to apply health data to forecast deceases, out of hundreds of teams in Taiwan
2012
Programming Contests
6th place, 2011 ACM-ICPC Asia Hsinchu Regional Contest
2011
3rd place, 2010 ACM-ICPC Asia Kaohsiung Regional Contest
2010
5th place, 2009 ACM-ICPC Asia Jakarta Regional Contest
2009
9th place, 2009 ACM-ICPC Asia Hsinchu Regional Contest
2009
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Algorithm Design and Analysis, NTU
- Instructor: Prof. Hsin-Mu Tsai
- Offered weekly TA hours for helping and discussing with students
- Contributed to designing and grading homework
Fall 2014
Lecturer and Teaching Assistant, Application of Big Data System, NTU
- Instructor: Prof. Shih-Wei Liao
- Organized and taught classes of big data analytics in English
- Offered weekly TA hours for helping and discussing with students
- Contributed to designing and grading homework
Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant, Data Structure and Algorithm, NTU
- Instructor: Prof. Hsin-Mu Tsai
- Offered weekly TA hours for helping and discussing with students
- Contributed to designing and grading homework
Spring 2013
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Teaching Assistant, Course of ACM-ICPC Programming Contest, NTU
- Instructor: Prof. Pu-Jen Cheng
- Assisted the training course for ACM-ICPC contestants
- Led NTU teams to participate international ACM-ICPC programming contests
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer Programming, NTU
- Instructor: Prof. Pangfeng Liu
- Provided tutoring on programming for beginners in freshmen
- Actively answered students’ questions online.
Instructor, Computer Science Summer Camp, NTU
- Held the summer camp with the department of CSIE at NTU
- Taught courses of Python and algorithms for high school students
- Attracted numerous high school students to study computer science
Fall 2011, Fall 2012
Fall 2009
July 2011, July 2012
Instructor, Training Program of Programming Contests, Jianguo High School
July 2008 - July 2009
- Organized the courses for international Olympiad in informatics (IOI)
- Lectured on topics of data structures, graph theory, dynamic programming and greedy algorithms
- Finally several students became the representatives of Taiwan for competing IOI.
Working Experience
Data Scientist, MixerBox, Taiwan
March 2015 - August 2016
• Developed recommender systems for a universal music player to improve day-1 retention
• Designed auto detectors to discover illegal users
Research Assistant, IRLab, CSIE, NTU, Taiwan
• Focused on web search, information retrieval and data mining.
• Advisor: Prof. Pu-Jen Cheng
Research Intern, Knowledge Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Focused on knowledge base data mining and relevance ranking in web search.
• Advisor: Dr. Chin-Yew Lin
Adjunct Research Assistant, Lab for Language Technology, NTU, Taiwan
• Assisted in the researches about natural language processing.
• Advisor: Prof. Zhao-Ming Gao
July 2011 - 2016 August
July 2013 - January 2014
July 2010 - June 2013
Member in Network Management Group, CSIE, NTU, Taiwan
September 2012 - June 2013
• Assisted in managing and improving the network environment of CSIE department in NTU.
• Advisor: Prof. Hsin-Mu Tsai
R&D Engineer Summer Intern, Trend Micro Inc., Taiwan
July 2012 - August 2012
• Worked in the Commercial CBU.
• Developed the back-end engine of an experimental project with Python Django and system programming.
Leadership Activities
Chief of Academic Section, Student Association of Department of NTU CSIE
Cadre of Academic Section, Student Association of Department of NTU CSIE
June 2011 - May 2012
June 2010 - May 2011
Extracurricular Activities
Bass Singer, Müller Chamber Choir
April 2011 - March
Host & Inviter, Orientation about Studying Abroad in NTU CSIE
June 2011, June
Host & Inviter, Orientation of Special Project in NTU CSIE
May 2011, May
Host & Judge, Programming contest for students of NTU, NTHU and NCTU
October
Coordinator & Lecture Main Editor, Prospective camp for freshmen of NTU CSIE
September
Arranger & Actor, Musical show in 2011 NTU CSIE Night
May
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Proficient Skills
Programming Languages and Tools
* C/C++, Python, Matlab, HTML, Javascript, Java, Perl, LATEX, SQL, bash
Languages
* Mandarin Chinese (native), Taiwanese (fluent), English (fluent), Japanese (elementary)
Algorithmic Problem Solving
* Seasoned in solving practical problems with efficient data structures and various algorithms
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