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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 (set up in July, 2014), 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 big data (several TB) using Hadoop.
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