Associate Researcher
Internet Media Group| Microsoft Research Asia
5F Sigma, 49 Zhichun Road Beijing 100190, P. R.
China Tel: + 86 - 10 - 5896 3469
Fax: + 86 - 10 - 8809 7306
Email: linjuny@microsoft.com

Linjun YANG is an associate researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He received the M.S. degree from Fudan University in Computer Science and B.S. degree from East China Normal University in Electronics Engineering, in 2006 and 2001, respectively. He is currently pursuing PhD degree from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Since 2006, he has been with Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, where he is currently an Associate Researcher with the media computing group. His current interests are in the broad areas of multimedia information retrieval, with focus on multimedia ranking and large-scale Web multimedia mining. He has authored or coauthored more than 20 publications in these areas and has more than 10 filed patents or pending applications. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

He received the Best Paper Award at ACM Multimedia, Beijing, 2009, and the Best Student Paper Award at the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong Kong, 2009.

Recent Publications [full list]

1. Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Zengfu Wang, "Visual Query Suggestion," accepted by ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Beijing, China, 2009. (Best Paper Award)
2. Li wang, Linjun Yang, Xinmei Tian, "Query Aware Visual Similarity Propagation for Image Search Reranking," accepted by ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Beijing, China, 2009. (poster)
3. Bo Geng, Linjun Yang, Chao Xu, and Xian-Sheng Hua, "Ranking Model Adaptation for Domain-Specific Search," accepted by ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2009. (Best Student Paper Award)
4. Linjun Yang, Li Wang, Bo Geng, and Xian-Sheng Hua, "Query Sampling for Ranking Learning in Web Search," In Proceedings of the 32th annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2009. (poster)
5. Meng Wang, Bo Liu, Linjun Yang, Xian-Sheng Hua. "Accommodating Colorblind Users in Image Search," In Proceedings of the 32th annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2009. (demo)
6. Bo Geng, Dacheng Tao, Chao Xu, Linjun Yang, and Xian-Sheng Hua, "Ensemble Manifold Regularization," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
7. Lei Wu, Linjun Yang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Nenghai Yu, "Learning to Tag," In WWW '09: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World Wide Web.
8. Dong Liu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Linjun Yang, Meng Wang, Hong-Jiang Zhang, "Tag Ranking," WWW '09: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World Wide Web.

* I am always looking for outstanding research and development interns. If you are interested in multimedia research and projects, please do not hesitate to send your resume to me.