Zhongyuan Wang (王仲远)

Email: zhy.wang @ microsoft . com (without any space in the email address)
          zhywangchina @ 163 . com
Tel: +86-10-59174328

I am an associate researcher in Microsoft Research Asia. I received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the School of Information, Renmin University of China. I won several top awards when I was in the university, such as Wu Yuzhang Scholarship(Top-level Scholarship of Renmin University), Kwang-Hua Scholarship and ACM SIGMOD07 Undergraduate Scholarship(one of the seven winners all over the world).

Currently, I work on Probase project and focus on acquiring web tables and attributes from more than 1.68 billion web documents in MS Cloud platform, addressing entities disambiguation/attributes synonyms in Probase, understanding web documents by reasoning over uncertain data and building cool applications upon on the knowledge base. 

My personal blog: 仲子说

Current Projects:

• Probase: a knowledgebase that knows our mental world
• WebQ: from the eye-ball web to the machine-intelligible web

Research Interest:

• Knowledgebase, Graph
• Database, Data Mining
• Cloud Data Management
• Web Search and Mining

Community Services:

• Program Committees, CIKM 2012
• Program Committees, WAIM 2011

Awards:

• 2009 Wu Yuzhang Scholarship(Top-level Scholarship of Renmin University of China. Top 10/22000)
• 2008/2009 Kwang-Hua Scholarship(Twice)
• 2008 HP Distinguished Chinese Student Scholarship
• 2007 Excellent Graduate Student Award of Renmin University
• 2007 ACM SIGMOD07 Undergraduate Scholarship (one of the seven winners all over the world)
• 2006 China Computer World Scholarship
• 2005~2006 The Outstanding Students Scholarship
• 2005 First Prize in Beijing Contest District in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM2005)
• 2005~2006 First-Class Scholarship
• 2003~2004 Fan Zhi’an Scholarship
• 2003~2004 Excellent League Member of RUC