HI, I just moved to BING Data Mining Team in Bellevue. Before this, I work in Microsoft Research Asia since 2005 as a Researcher in the Machine Learning group. My research interests include large scale machine learning, data mining, information retrieval and I enjoy employing them to solve industrial challenges, mostly in Web search and online advertising. Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked in IBM research lab for about one year.
My current research focus includes parallel machine learning and click model. My work in click model has been utilized by BING with achieving significant NDCG gains and acting as a sub-ranker since 2010 May. Meanwhile, my curiosity in data-driven research leads me to study parallel machine learning algorithms. We have published a toolkit, see SIGMA and SIGMA_AZURE. I also help the product team to parallelize the search ranking algorithm in BING and the CTR prediction algorithm in Ads Center R&R.
News: Our team, including Nathan Liu, Botao Hu and I, win the champion of the Relevance Prediction Challenge organized by Yandax in WSDM 2012. A report is shared in here.
Recent publications:
- Weizhu Chen, Dong Wang, Yuchen Zhang, Zheng Chen, Adish Singla, Qiang Yang, Understanding Click Noise: A Noise-aware Click Model for Web Search, to appear in WSDM 2012
- Danqi Chen, Weizhu Chen, Zheng Chen, Haixun Wang, Qiang Yang, Beyond Ten Blue Links: Enabling User Click Modeling in Federated Web Search, to appear in WSDM 2012
- Si Shen, Botao Hu, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Personalized Click Model through Collaborative Filtering, to appear in WSDM 2012
- Danqi Chen, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Characterizing Inverse Time Dependency in Multi-class Learning, to appear in ICDM2011
- Yuchen Zhang, Weizhu Chen, Dong Wang, Qiang Yang, User-click Modeling for Understanding and Predicting Search-behavior, KDD 2011
- Weizhu Chen, Zhanglong Ji, Si Shen, Qiang Yang, A Whole Page Click Model to Better Interpret Search Engine Click Data, AAAI 2011
- Botao Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Weizhu Chen, Gang Wang and Qiang Yang, Characterize Search Intent Diversity into Click Models, in WWW 2011
- Dakan Wang, Gang Wang, Xiaofeng Ke, Weizhu Chen: Action Prediction and Identification From Mining Temporal User Behaviors. To appear in WSDM 2011.
- Yuchen Zhang, Dong Wang, Gang Wang, Weizhu Chen, Zhihua Zhang, Botao Hu, Li Zhang: Learning Click Models via Probit Bayesian Inference. CIKM 2010.
- Dong Wang, Weizhu Chen, Gang Wang, Yuchen Zhang, Botao Hu, Explore click models for search ranking, In Proceeding of ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010.
- Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguang Zhu, and Zheng Chen, A Novel Click Model and Its Applications to Online Advertising, in Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 5 February 2010
- Feimin Zhong, Dong Wang, Gang Wang, Weizhu Chen, Yuchen Zhang, Zheng Chen, and Haixun Wang, Incorporating Post-Click Behaviors into a Click Model, in SIGIR, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010
- Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Chenguang Zhu, Gang Wang, and Zheng Chen, P-packSVM: Parallel Primal grAdient desCent Kernel SVM, in ICDM2009, IEEE Computer Society, 2009
- Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Gang Wang, Chenguang Zhu, and Zheng Chen, To Divide and Conquer Search Ranking by Learning Query Difficulty, in ACM CIKM2009, 2009
- Chenguang Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Gang Wang, Dong Wang, and Zheng Chen, A General Magnitude-Preserving Boosting Algorithm for Search Ranking, in ACM CIKM2009, 2009
- Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Chenguang Zhu, Gang Wang, Haixun Wang, and Zheng Chen, Inverse Time Dependency in Convex Regularized Learning, in ICDM2009, 2009. Best student runner up paper
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- PC Member of: WSDM 2013, KDD 2010, KDD 2011, KDD 2012, SDM 2010, SDM 2011, CIKM2011
- Reviewer of: TKDE, TIST
I have been fortunate to work closely with many talent interns, my current intern is Danqi Chen. and a lot of others in the Former Interns List
I am moving the homepage to Weizhu Chen in HKUST
