Biographical Information
- Lead Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia (2007.9~present).
- Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia (2006.1~2007.9).
- Associate Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia (2003.7~2006.1).
- Research Assistant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2002.
- Research Assistant, The City University of Hong Kong, 1999.
- Ph.D., Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2003.
- MSc, Department of Eletronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2000.
- BSc, Department of Eletronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1998.
Bio Sketch:
Tie-Yan Liu is a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He leads a team working on learning to rank for information retrieval, and large-scale graph learning. So far, he has more than 70 quality papers published in referred conferences and journals and over 50 filed US / international patents or pending applications. He is the co-author of the Best Student Paper for SIGIR 2008, and the Most Cited Paper for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2004~2006). He is a Program Committee Co-Chair of RIAO 2010, an Area Chair of SIGIR 2008, SIGIR 2009, and AIRS 2009, a Co-Chair of SIGIR workshop on learning to rank forIR (LR4IR) 2007,2008, and 2009, and a Program Committee member of many other international conferences such as WWW, ICML, ACL, and ICIP. He is on the Editorial Board of the Information Retrieval Journal (IRJ), and is a guest editor of the special issue on learning to rank of IRJ. He has given tutorials on learning to rank at several conferences including WWW 2009, WWW 2008, and SIGIR 2008. Prior to joining Microsoft, he obtained his Ph.D. in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University.
Also see Detailed CV.
Email: tyliu@microsoft.com
Mailing address: 4/F, Sigma Center, No.49, Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
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