I joined Microsoft Research Asia in July 2007. I Received the M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science and technology from Fudan University at Shanghai in 2004 and 2007, respectively. My main research interests are user-created content analysis and lock-free consistency maintenance.

Representative Publications | Full publications

    * - Interns that I mentored when they were doing corresponding research works.

Web Forum Analysis

• Chen Lin*, Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei Wang, and Lei Zhang. Simultaneously Modeling Semantics and Structure of Threaded Discussions: A Sparse Coding Approach. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009 Conference, Boston, US, July 19-23, 2009. 131-138.  Paper / Slides
• Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Chunsong Wang*, Hua Huang*, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma. Incorporating Site-Level Knowledge for Incremental Crawling of Web Forums: A List-wise Strategy. In Proceedings of SIGKDD 2009 Conference, Paris, France, June 28-July 1, 2009. 1375-1383.  Paper / Slides
• Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Yida Wang*, Jun Zhu, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma. Incorporating Site-Level Knowledge to Extract Structured Data from Web Forums. In Proceedings of WWW 2009 Conference, Madrid, Spain, April 20-24, 2009. 181-190.  Paper /  Slides
• Yida Wang*, Jiangming Yang, Wei Lai, Rui Cai, Lei Zhang and Weiying Ma. Exploring Traversal Strategy for Efficient Web Forum Crawling. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 Conference, Singapore, July 2008, 459-468.  Paper /  Slides
• Rui Cai, Jiangming Yang, Wei Lai, Yida Wang* and Lei Zhang. iRobot: An Intelligent Crawler for Web Forums. In Proceedings of WWW 2008 Conference, Beijing, China, April 2008, 447-456.  Paper /  Slides

Lock-Free Consistency Maintenance

• Jiangming Yang, Haixun Wang, Ning GU, Yiming Liu, Chunsong Wang and Qiwei Zhang. Lock-Free Consistency Control for Web 2.0 Applications. In Proceedings of WWW 2008 Conference, Beijing, China, April 2008, 725-734. Paper /  Slides
• Ning Gu, Qiwei Zhang, Jiangming Yang, and Wei Ye. DCV: A Causality Detection Approach for Large-scale Dynamic Collaboration Environments. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGROUP 2007 Conference, Sanibel Island, USA, Nov 2007, 157-166.  Paper /  Slides
• Ning Gu, Jiangming Yang, Qiwei Zhang. Consistency maintenance based on the mark & retrace technique in groupware systems. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGROUP 2005 Conference, Sanibel Island, USA, Nov 2005, 264-273.  Paper /  Slides

Professional Affiliations and Activities

• Journal reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
• Journal reviewer, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST).
• PC member, The Workshop on Cloud Data Management (CloudDB) in conjunction with the ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009.
• Journal reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN).
• Session chair of "KM: Web Mining", ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008.

Jiang-Ming Yang / 杨江明

Associate Researcher

Web Search & Mining Group (WSM)
Microsoft Research Aisa (MSRA)
4F, Beijing Sigma Center
No.49, Zhichun Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100190, P.R.China
Tel.: +86-10-5896 5315
Fax: +86-10-8809 9681
Email: jmyang@microsoft.com

Current Team Members

• Lei Zhang
• Rui Cai
• Rong Xiao
• Xin-Jing Wang
• Zhiwei Li
• Changhu Wang

Current Interns

• Xin Lu (MS, Tianjin Univ.)

Previous Interns

• Qi Liu (MS, Tsinghua Univ.)
• Yida Wang (Phd, Princeton Univ.)
• Chunsong Wang (Developer, Microsoft, Redmond)
• Chen Lin (Phd, Fudan Univ.)
• Hua Huang (MS, Simon Fraser Univ.)
• Bailu Ding (BS, Fudan Univ.)
• Tao Zou (Phd, Cornell Univ.)