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Dr. Wei-Ying Ma is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. As a Research Area Manager based in Beijing at Microsoft Research Asia, he leads a team of talented, passionate researchers to advance the state-of-the-art in Web search and data mining. Under his leadership, the team is pushing the boundaries of current search technologies by leveraging machine learning and knowledge discovery techniques to deliver the next generation of Web search. This includes projects in information analysis, organization, retrieval, and visualization. Over the past few years, the team has generated an impressive record of conference publications, including key papers at SIGIR, WWW, and ACM Multimedia. The research has included direct transfers to products, including key technologies delivered to Windows Live image search, product search, mobile search, and academic search. Before joining Microsoft in 2001, Wei-Ying was with HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., where he worked in the field of multimedia adaptation and distributed media services infrastructure. From 1994 to 1997, Wei-Ying was engaged in the Alexandria Digital Library project at the University of California Santa Barbara. During this time, he developed one of the first web-based image-retrieval systems, Netra, which has been widely cited by other researchers and is regarded as one of the most influential mage retrieval systems. Wei-Ying currently serves on the editorial boards of both the ACM Transactions on Information System (TOIS) and ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal. He is the program co-chair of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), program co-chair of the Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2007, and general co-chair of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2007. He was general co-chair of the International Multimedia Modeling (MMM) Conference 2005 and International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2005. He has served on the organizing and program committees of other international conferences, including ACM Multimedia, SIGIR, CIKM, KDD, and WWW, and has published more than 180 papers in fields such as Web search, information retrieval, content-based image retrieval, data mining, adaptive content delivery, and mobile browsing. Wei-Ying received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1990, and earned a master of science degree and doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1994 and 1997, respectively. |
