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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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==== Conference Publications ==== ==== Conference Publications ====
 +    *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, 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, 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. Improving Latent Factor Models Via Personalized Feature Projection for One Class Recommendation. In CIKM 2015.
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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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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. 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.
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 +==== Working Experience====
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 +Applied Scientist, Core Machine Learning Team, Amazon, Seattle, WA, U.S.\\
==== Contact Information ==== ==== Contact Information ====
 
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