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====== Tong ZHAO ====== ====== Tong ZHAO ======
-I'm a PhD student in CSE department at CUHK, advised by Prof. Irwin King. I'm broadly interested in machine learning, data mining, social computing and recommender systems. +I'm a PhD candidate in CSE department at CUHK, advised by Prof. Irwin King. I'm broadly interested in machine learning, data mining, social computing and recommender systems.  
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==== Research Interests ==== ==== Research Interests ====
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==== Conference Publications ==== ==== Conference Publications ====
-    *Tong Zhao, H. Vicky Zhao,Irwin King. Exploiting Game Theoretic Analysis for Link Recommendation in Social Network. In CIKM 2015. +    *Shenglin Zhao, Tong Zhao, Irwin King, Michael R Lyu. Geo-Teaser: Geo-Temporal Sequential Embedding Rank for Point-of-interest Recommendation. In WWW Companion, 2017. 
-    *Tong Zhao, Julian McAuley,Irwin King. Improving Latent Factor Models Via Personalized Feature Projection for One Class Recommendation. In CIKM 2015.+    *Tong Zhao, Irwin King. Constructing Reliable Gradient Exploration for Online Learning to Rank. In CIKM, 2016 (Best Student Paper Runner-up (Top 2 over 270 accepted papers, 0.7%)) 
 +    *Tong Zhao, H. Vicky Zhao, Irwin King. Exploiting Game Theoretic Analysis for Link Recommendation in Social Network. In CIKM 2015. 
 +    *Tong Zhao, Julian McAuley, Irwin King. Improving Latent Factor Models Via Personalized Feature Projection for One Class Recommendation. In CIKM 2015.
    *Tong Zhao, Julian McAuley, Irwin King. Leveraging Social Connections to Improve Personalized Ranking for Collaborative Filtering. In CIKM 2014.     *Tong Zhao, Julian McAuley, Irwin King. Leveraging Social Connections to Improve Personalized Ranking for Collaborative Filtering. In CIKM 2014.
    *Tong Zhao, Junjie Hu, Pinjia He, Hang Fan, Michael Lyu and Irwin King. Exploiting Homophily-based Implicit Social Network to Improve Recommendation Performance. In IJCNN 2014.     *Tong Zhao, Junjie Hu, Pinjia He, Hang Fan, Michael Lyu and Irwin King. Exploiting Homophily-based Implicit Social Network to Improve Recommendation Performance. In IJCNN 2014.
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==== Awards & Grants ==== ==== Awards & Grants ====
 +  *Best Student Paper Runner-up, CIKM, 2016
  *Postgraduate Studentship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013-present   *Postgraduate Studentship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013-present
  *National Scholarship for Postgraduate/Graduate students, Tsinghua University 2011 – 2012   *National Scholarship for Postgraduate/Graduate students, Tsinghua University 2011 – 2012
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==== Research Experience ==== ==== Research Experience ====
      *Visiting Student at Stanford.    05.2014-06.2014       *Visiting Student at Stanford.    05.2014-06.2014
-        Supervisor: Prof. Julian McAuley and Prof. Jure Leskovec.+        Supervisor: Prof. [[http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~jmcauley/|Julian McAuley]] and Prof. [[http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/|Jure Leskovec]].
  Research on incorporating social network information into one-class recommendation methods.   Research on incorporating social network information into one-class recommendation methods.
-      *Research Intern at Big Data Lab (set up in July, 2014), Baidu Inc.    07.2014-09.2014 +      *Research Intern at Big Data Lab, Baidu Inc.    07.2014-09.2014 
- Supervisor: Prof. Tong Zhang and Dr. Fen Xia. + Supervisor: Prof. [[http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/home/tzhang/|Tong Zhang]] and Dr. Fen Xia. Research on Bandit problems (contextual bandit for Link Unit recommendation, convex bandit optimization for parameter tuning) dealing with big data (several TB) using Hadoop. 
- Research on Bandit problems, contextual bandit for Link Unit recommendation, convex bandit optimization for parameter tuning, dealing big data (several TB) using Hadoop.+ 
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 +==== Working Experience==== 
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 +Applied Scientist, Core Machine Learning Team, Amazon, Seattle, WA, U.S.\\ 
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 +==== Contact Information ==== 
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 +Rm 1024, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, \\ 
 +Department of Computer Science and Engineering, \\ 
 +CUHK, N.T., Hong Kong\\ 
 +Email: <tzhao@cse.cuhk.edu.hk>\\ 
 
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