University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.

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1 Hongning Wang Contact Information Research Interests Education 2205 Thomas M. Siebel Center Department of Computer Science WWW: sifaka.cs.uiuc.edu/~wang296/ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL Phone: (217) Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and their applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, U.S. Ph.D., Department of Computer Science Advisor: ChengXiang Zhai Area of Research: Text Mining, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning Thesis: Computational User Intent Modeling GPA 4.0(major) / 4.0(all) Expected Graduation Date: May, 2014 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China M.E., Department of Computer Science and Technology, June 2009 Advisor: Xiaoyan Zhu Thesis: Generative Topic Models for Document Modeling GPA 89.14(major) / 88.91(all) B.E., Department of Computer Science and Technology, July 2007 Thesis: Feature Selection and Integration for Biological Literature Classification GPA 90.27(major) / 89.03(all) Honors & Awards Google Ph.D. Fellowship, of 14 awarded in the United States/Canada Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge Award, of 30 awarded in the United States Yahoo!-DAIS Research Excellence Award, University of Illinois Bronze Award, 2013 Bronze Award, 2011 Conference Travel Award The 35th ACM SIGIR Conference Travel Grant, 2013 Graduate College conference travel grants, 2013 The 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference, Student Travel Award, 2011 The 34th ACM SIGIR Conference, Donald B. Crouch Travel Grant, 2011 The 49th ACL Conference, Student Travel Award, 2011 The 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference, Student Travel Award, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, UNESCO Travel Grant, 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee, 2008 Outstanding Olympic Volunteer (150 out of 3000) 1 of 5

2 China National Scholarship Second Class, 2006 Second Class, 2005 Tsinghua University Best Master Thesis Award, 2009 Excellent Master Student Honor, 2009 Morgan Stanley Scholarship, 2008 Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, 2007 Excellent Undergraduate Student Honor, 2007 Fresh Student Scholarship, 2003 Rank 3 rd in the National College Entrance Examination in Ningxia Province, 2003 Invited Talks Publications The 4th workshop on Web Search Click Data (WSCD 2014), Feburary Keynote speech on A Search-task-based Framework for Modeling User Search Behaviors. Search science and anti-abuse science group, Yahoo! Labs, October Invited talk on A Task-Based Framework for Search Log Mining and Personalization. Hongning Wang, ChengXiang Zhai, Feng Liang, Anlei Dong and Yi Chang. User Modeling in Search Logs via A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach. The 7th ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2014). (Acceptance rate = 18%). Yang Song, Hongning Wang and Xiaodong He. Adapting Deep RankNet for Personalized Search. The 7th ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2014). (Acceptance rate = 18%). Hongning Wang, Xiaodong He, Ming-Wei Chang, Yang Song, Ryen White and Wei Chu. Personalized Ranking Model Adaptation for Web Search. The 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 20%). Hongning Wang, ChengXiang Zhai, Anlei Dong and Yi Chang. Content-Aware Click Modeling. The 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 15%). Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ryen White and Wei Chu. Learning to Extract Cross-Session Search Tasks. The 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 15%). Yang Song, Hao Ma, Hongning Wang and Kuansan Wang. Exploring and Exploiting User Search Behaviors on Mobile and Tablet Devices to Improve Search Relevance. The 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 15%). Ryen White, Wei Chu, Ahmed Hassan, Xiaodong He, Yang Song and Hongning Wang. Enhancing Personalized Search by Mining and Modeling Task Behavior. The 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 15%). Chi Wang, Hongning Wang, Jialu Liu, Ming Ji, Lu Su, Yuguo Chen and Jiawei Han. On the Detectability of Node Grouping in Networks. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 25.5%) Hongbo Deng, Jiawei Han, Hao Li, Heng Ji, Hongning Wang and Yue Lu. Exploring and Inferring User-User Pseudo-Friendship for Sentiment Analysis with Heterogeneous Networks. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 25.5%) (1 of 10 Nominated Papers) Mianwei Zhou, Hongning Wang and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. Learning to Rank from Distant Supervision: Exploiting Noisy Redundancy for Relational Entity 2 of 5

3 Search. The 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013), p , (Acceptance rate = 20%) Yue Lu, Hongning Wang, ChengXiang Zhai and Dan Roth. Unsupervised Discovery of Opposing Opinion Networks From Forum Discussions. The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), p , (Acceptance rate = 27.8%) Hongning Wang, Anlei Dong, Lihong Li, Yi Chang and Evgeniy Gabrilovich. Joint Relevance and Freshness Learning From Clickthroughs for News Search. The 2012 World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), p , (Acceptance rate = 12.5%) Hongning Wang, Yue Lu and ChengXiang Zhai. Latent Aspect Rating Analysis without Aspect Keyword Supervision. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2011), p , (Acceptance rate = 18%) Hongning Wang, Chi Wang, ChengXiang Zhai and Jiawei Han. Learning Online Discussion Structures by Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2011), p , (Acceptance rate = 20%) Hongning Wang, Duo Zhang and ChengXiang Zhai. Structural Topic Model for Latent Topical Structure Analysis. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL 2011), p , (Acceptance rate = 26%) Yue Lu, Huizhong Duan, Hongning Wang and ChengXiang Zhai. Exploiting Structured Ontology to Organize Scattered Online Opinions. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), p , (Acceptance rate = 41%) Hongning Wang, Yue Lu and ChengXiang Zhai. Latent Aspect Rating Analysis on Review Text Data: A Rating Regression Approach. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 10), p , (Acceptance rate = 15%) Hongning Wang, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu. A Generative Probabilistic Model for Multi-Label Classification. In Proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 08), p , (Acceptance rate = 19%) Hongning Wang, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu. Extract Interaction Detection Methods from the Biological Literature. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S55. (Impact Factor = 3.02) Hongning Wang, Minlie Huang, Shilin Ding and Xiaoyan Zhu. Exploiting and Integrating Rich Features for Biological Literature Classification. BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 3):S4. (Impact Factor = 3.02) Minlie Huang, Shilin Ding, Hongning Wang and Xiaoyan Zhu. Mining Physical Protein-protein Interactions from Literature. Genome Biology 2008, 9(Suppl 2):S12. (Impact Factor = 10.3) Demo System Academic Services ReviewMiner: Aspect-based latent sentiment analysis system based on KDD 10 work URL: Functionalities: 1) Opinionated review text mining, including millions reviews from TripAdvisor, Yelp and Amazon; 2) Aspect-based opinion summarization, ranking and comparison; 3) Personalized item recommendation and retrieval; 4) trend analysis of public opinions for business analytic research. Conference Program Committee Member The 31th ICML Conference, of 5

4 The 36th ECIR Conference, 2014 The 30th ICML Conference, 2013 The 6th IJCNLP Conference, 2013 The 29th ICML Conference, 2012 The ECML/PDD Conference, 2012 Journal Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) Neurocomputing BMC Bioinformatics Information Processing & Management (IPM) International Journal of Advanced Information Technology (IJAIT) Neural Processing Letters (NEPL) World Wide Web Journal International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics Professional Experience Task-based personalization in Web search Internship in Microsoft Research Summer 2012, Summer 2013 Internet Services Research Center Manager: Kuansan Wang Mentor: Yang Song Identify user s long-term search tasks from the search logs, and optimize personalization via ranking model adaptation. Predict user s search satisfaction from logged search behaviors and organize their long-term search tasks in a taxonomy structure. Image-Text parsing for understanding social and political news events NSF Project in UIUC January 2011 to May 2012 Advisor: ChengXiang Zhai (czhai@illinois.edu) Categorize news by topics and events, and analyzing selection and presentation biases across networks and media spheres; Discover spatio-temporal patterns in the interactions of multiple mediated events, and analyzing agenda setting patterns. Recency ranking in Yahoo! news search Internship in Yahoo! Labs May 2011 to August 2011 Relevance Science Group Manager: Yi Chang (yichang@yahoo-inc.com) Mentor: Anlei Dong (anlei@yahoo-inc.com) A unified framework for modeling the news article s topical relevance and freshness, as well as their relative importance, based on the news search click logs. GO annotation in biological literature NIH Project in UIUC October 2009 to December 2010 Advisor: ChengXiang Zhai (czhai@illinois.edu) Multi-label gene ontology classification for biological literature; Sentence-level gene ontology annotation. 4 of 5

5 Forum mining and thread analysis Internship in Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) July 2007 to February 2008 Web Search and Data Mining Group Manager: Lei Zhang Mentor: Rui Cai Recover the threaded replying structure from the flat online forum discussion contents. Service Experience Research forum coordinator, September 2013 to present TIMAN group, UIUC Department Graduate Application Review, November 2013 to present Department of Computer Science, UIUC Olympic Volunteers, January 2008 to August 2008 Good luck Beijing Sport Event Beijing 2008 Olympic Games References ChengXiang Zhai Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar, Department of Computer Science Homepage: Jiawei Han Abel Bliss Professor, Department of Computer Science Homepage: Dan Roth Professor, Department of Computer Science Homepage: Ryen W. White Senior Researcher Microsoft Research Homepage: Evgeniy Gabrilovich Senior Staff Research Scientist Google Research Homepage: 5 of 5