Dr. Rui Cai is an associate researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. His research interests include web search and data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, and signal processing.
He is a member of ACM.

 

Selected Publications

1. 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 and Its Applications". in Proc. of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), pp.131-138, Boston, US, July 19-23, 2009.
2. 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 Proc. of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009), pp.1375-1384, Paris, France, June 28-July 1, 2009.
3. Xiaolin Shi, Jun Zhu, Rui Cai, and Lei Zhang. "User Grouping Behavior in Online Forums". in Proc. of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009), pp.777-786, Paris, France, June 28-July 1, 2009.
4. 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 Proc. of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), pp.181-190, Madrid, Spain, April 20-24, 2009.
5. Yida Wang, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Rui Cai, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma. "Exploring Traversal Strategy for Efficient Web Forum Crawling". in Proc. of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), pp.459-466, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008.
6. Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Yida Wang, and Lei Zhang. "iRobot: An Intelligent Crawler for Web Forums". in Proc. of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), pp.447-456, Beijing, P.R. China, April 21-25, 2008.
7. Rui Cai, Lie Lu, and Alan Hanjalic. "Co-clustering for Auditory Scene Categorization". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Vol. 10, No. 4, pp.596-606, June 2008.
8. Rui Cai, Chao Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma. "Scalable Music Recommendation by Search". in Proc. of the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2007), pp.1065-1074, Augsburg, Germany, September 24-29, 2007.
9. Rui Cai, Chao Zhang, Chong Wang, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma. "MusicSense: Contextual Music Recommendation using Emotional Allocation Modeling". in Proc. of the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2007), pp.553-556, Augsburg, Germany, September 24-29, 2007.
10. Rui Cai, Lie Lu, Alan Hanjalic, Hong-Jiang Zhang, and Lian-Hong Cai. "A Flexible Framework for Key Audio Effects Detection and Auditory Context Inference". IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), Vol. 14, No. 3, pp.1026-1039, May 2006.
11. Rui Cai, Lie Lu, and Alan Hanjalic. "Unsupervised Content Discovery in Composite Audio". in Proc. of the 13th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005), pp.628-637, Singapore, November 6-11, 2005.
12. Rui Cai, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang, and Lian-Hong Cai. "Using Structure Patterns of Temporal and Spectral Feature in Audio Similarity Measure". in Proc. of the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2003), pp.219-222, Berkeley, CA, USA, November 2-8, 2003.

 

Professional Activities

• Reviewer. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 2009
• PC member. The 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 2009
• PC member. ACM Workshop on Improving Non English Web searching (ACM iNEWS 2008), in conjunction with the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, California, Oct. 2008
• Reviewer. The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), Singapore, July 2008. 
• Reviewer. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 2008
• PC member. The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, Jun. 2008
• PC member. The 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2008), Harbin, China, Jan. 2008
• Reviewer. The 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007

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