Ying Wei
Contact
Information
Room 4215, Academic Building
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Voice: 852-65806150
E-mail: [email protected]
Research
Interests
Heterogeneous Transfer Learning, Domain Adaptation, Distance Metric Learning, Transfer Learning,
Machine Learning, Data Mining
Education
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
August 2012 - Present
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Expected: August 2016
• Supervisor: Qiang Yang, Ph.D
• Selected Courses: Machine Learning, Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization, Knowledge
Discovery in Databases, Hot Topics on Big Data, Fundamentals of Software Analysis,
Theory of Computation
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
August 2008 - June 2012
B.S., Automation
• Summa cum laude (top 1 among 241)
Research
Experience
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
Graduate Student Researcher
January 2013 - present
Supervisor: Qiang Yang, Ph.D
Researching the heterogeneous transfer learning, and heterogeneous hashing models and algorithms.
Microsoft Research Asia
Beijing, China
Intern
February 2012 - May 2012
Supervisor: Yu Zheng, Ph.D
Mined traffic patterns and detected communities in road networks upon taxis’ GPS records.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, China
Research Assistant
May 2011 - February 2012
Supervisor: Housheng Su, Ph.D
Investigated influences of the delay and noise on the control of multi-agent systems.
Conference
Publications
1. Ying Wei, Yangqiu Song, Yi Zhen, Bo Liu, and Qiang Yang. “Scalable Heterogeneous
Translated Hashing”, In Proc. 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining (KDD), New York, USA, 2014.
Selected
Honors and
Awards
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (136 awardees in Hong Kong)
Best Bachelor Thesis in Hubei Province
Outstanding Undergraduate
National Scholarship (top 2%)
National Undergraduate Innovation Award
Academic Scholarship
Service
Talk for HKPFS Awardees
Volunteer of RecSys’13
August 2012 - August
December
June
October 2009, 2010,
June
September
2016
2012
2012
2011
2011
2010
April 2014
October 2013

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