====== Benjamin Zenglin Xu  ======
  * (See also  [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~zlxu/|my homepage]])
  * My name in Chinese: 徐增林
  

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Ph.D. \\
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114A Ho-SinHang Engineering Building\\
[[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk|Department of Computer Science & Engineering]]\\
[[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk|The Chinese University of Hong Kong]]\\
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong\\


====== Profile ======
Zenglin Xu is currently a research associate in Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been a visiting student of Professor Rong Jin in Michigan State University during the summers of 2007 and 2008. His research interests include machine learning and its application in information retrieval.

====== Research Interests ======
  * Machine Learning
  * Pattern Recognition
  * Data Mining
  * Evolutionary Computation
  * Information Retrieval

====== Publications ======
 ===== Conference Papers =====
  - <bibtex>
@inproceedings{ICML2009-zlxu,
Address = {Montreal, Quebec},
Author = {Xu, Zenglin and Jin, Rong and Ye, Jieping and Lyu, Michael R. and King, Irwin},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2009)},
Month = {June 14-18,},
Notes = {#140},
Title = {Non-Monotonic Feature Selection},
Year = 2009,
</bibtex> **(AR: XXXX)**
  - <bibtex>  
@inproceedings{ijcai2009-zlxu,
	Author = {Xu, Zenglin and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R. and Jin, Rong},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)},
	Date-Added = {2009-04-02 01:24:56 +0800},
	Date-Modified = {2009-04-02 01:28:11 +0800},
	Month = {July 11-17,},
	Notes = {#671, 331/1290 = 25.7%},
	Title = {Discriminative Semi-supervised Feature Selection via Manifold Regularization},
	Year = {2009}}
</bibtex> **(AR: 331/1290 (25.7%))**
  - <bibtex>
@inproceedings{ijcnn09_huang,
	Author = {Huang, Kaizhu and Xu, Zenglin and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R. and Campbell, Colin},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2009)},
	Date-Added = {2009-03-28 12:29:13 +0800},
	Date-Modified = {2009-03-28 12:30:10 +0800},
	Month = {June 14-19,},
	Title = {Supervised Self-taught Learning: Actively Transferring Knowledge from Unlabeled Data},
	Year = {2009}}
</bibtex> **(AR: XXXX)**
   - <bibtex>
@inproceedings{Xu08mkl,
 title = {An Extended Level Method for Efficient Multiple Kernel Learning},
 author = {Zenglin Xu and Rong Jin  and Irwin King and Michael R. Lyu},
 booktitle = {NIPS},
 year = {2008},
}
</bibtex>
   - <bibtex>
@inproceedings{Xu08weakssl,
 title = {Semi-supervised Text Categorization by Active Search},
 author = {Zenglin Xu and Rong Jin and Kaizhu Huang and Irwin King and Michael R. Lyu},
 booktitle = {ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management},
 year = {2008},
 location = {Napa Valley, CA, USA},
 publisher = {ACM Press},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
</bibtex>
   - <bibtex>
@inproceedings{Huang08ssmixture,
 title = {Semi-supervised Text Categorization by Active Search},
 author = {Kaizhu Huang and Zenglin Xu  and  Irwin King and Michael R. Lyu},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2008)},
 year = {2008},
}
</bibtex>
   - <bibtex>
@inproceedings{Zhu08surfacetracking,
 title = {An Effective Approach to 3D Deformable Surface Tracking},
 author = {Jianke Zhu and Steven Hoi and Zenglin Xu and Michael R. Lyu},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008)},
 year = {2008},
}
</bibtex>
   - <bibtex>
@inproceedings{Xu07tsvm,
  author    = {Xu, Zenglin and Jin, Rong and Zhu, Jianke and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael~R.},
  title     = {Efficient Convex Relaxation for Transductive Support Vector Machine},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 21)},
  year      = {2007},
}
</bibtex>

 ===== Journal Papers =====
   -<bibtex>
@Article{Xu07fsmem,
   author =   "Zenglin Xu and Kaizhu Huang and  Jianke Zhu and Irwin King and Michael~R. Lyu",
   title =   "A Novel Kernel-based Maximum A Posteriori Classification Method",
   journal =   "Neural Networks",
   doi = {10.1016/j.neunet.2008.11.005},
   year = {2009},
}
</bibtex>

   -<bibtex>
@Article{Xu07fsmem,
   author =   "Xu, Zenglin and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael~R.",
   title =   "Feature Selection Based on Minimum Error Minimax Probability Machine",
   journal =   "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence",
   volume = {21},
   number = {8},
   pages = {1--14},
   year = {2007},
}
</bibtex>

===== Book Chapters =====
  -<bibtex>
@InCollection{Huang07DBN,
  author = {Huang, Kaizhu. and Xu, Zenglin and  King, Irwin and Lyu, Michale R. and Zhou, Zhangbin},
  title =      {A Novel Discriminative Naive Bayesian Network for Classification},
  editor =    {A. Mittal and A. Kassim},
  booktitle =    {Bayesian Network Technologies: Applications and Graphical Models},
  pages = "1-12",
  address       = "New York",
  publisher =    {IDEA Group Inc.},
  year =     {2007}
}
</bibtex> 

====== Research Projects ======
 Theoretical and empirical investigation on semi-supervised learning
===== Professional Activities =====
  * Reviewer: Journal of Machine Learning Resarch, IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Neural Computing and Applications
  * Program committee: ICONIP 2009,Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum 2007
  * Session chair in ICONIP 2006

===== Awards & Grants =====
 Coming Soon!

====== Miscellaneous ======