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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.
Research Interests
- Recommender systems
- Social computing, social network analysis
- Information retrieval
- Algorithmic game theory
- Multi-armed bandits
- Probabilistic graphical models
Conference Publications
- 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, 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, Chunping Li, Mengya Li. Social Recommendation Incorporating Topic Mining and Social Trust Analysis. In CIKM 2013.
- Tong Zhao, Naiwen Bian, Chunping Li, Mengya Li. Topic-level Expert Modeling in CQA System. In SDM 2013.
- Tong Zhao, Chunping Li, Mengya Li. Wikipedia-based Efficient Sampling Approach for Topic model. In International Network Conference, 2012.
- Tong Zhao, Chunping Li, Qiang Ding, Li Li. User-Sentiment Topic Model:Refining User’s Topics with Sentiment Information. In SIGKDD workshop on Mining Data Semantics in Information Networks, 2012.
- Tong Zhao, Chunping Li, Mengya Li, Siyang Wang. Predicting Best Responder in Community Question Answering using Topic Model Method. In the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence.
Awards & Grants
- Postgraduate Studentship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013-present
- National Scholarship for Postgraduate/Graduate students, Tsinghua University 2011 – 2012
- RIM Research Special Scholarship, Tsinghua University 2011 – 2012
- Software Student Research Training Scholarship, Tsinghua University 2011 – 2012
Research Experience
- Visiting Student at Stanford. 05.2014-06.2014
Supervisor: Prof. Julian McAuley and Prof. Jure Leskovec. Research on incorporating social network information into one-class recommendation methods.
- Research Intern at Big Data Lab, Baidu Inc. 07.2014-09.2014
Supervisor: Prof. 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.