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Biography
I am a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University. My advisor is Dr. Jia Li. I am also an M.S. candidate in the Department of Statistics at Penn State. In the summer of 2009, I was a research intern in eBay Research Labs (San Jose, CA). I previously received my B.E. (Summa Cum Laude) in 2007 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. In 2006, I was an exchange student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. My research interests are statistical machine learning, data mining, information retrieval and social network analysis.
Research Experience
Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, Penn State, Oct. 2009-present (Advisor: Dr. Jia Li)
Research Projects: New Geometric Methods of Mixture Models for Interactive Visualization (Supported by NSF)
Summer Research Intern, eBay Research Labs (San Jose, CA), June 2009- Aug 2009 (Mentors: Dr. Jean-David Ruvini and Dr. Badrul Sarwar)
Research Projects: Learning-based catalog building system on eBay
Research Assistant, Intelligent Agents Lab, College of Information Science and Technology, Penn State, Sept 2007- Oct. 2009 (Advisor: Dr. John Yen)
Research Projects:
Mining Sequential Patterns in Uncertain Environment (Supported by Raytheon Company)
Topic Models for Unsupervised Citation Influence Analysis and Growth Models of Large-Scale Nanotechnology Scientific Networks
Cognitively-inspired Intelligent Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids (Supported by U.S. Army Research Lab)
Adaptive and Learning Agents Assisting the Three-Block Challenge in Command and Control in military operations. (Supported by Alion Science and Technology Corporation)
Awards
Student Paper Competition Award (Statistical Learning and Data Mining Section of ASA at Joint Statistical Meetings 2010)
Publications
Mu Qiao, Jia Li, "Two-way Gaussian Mixture Models for High Dimensional Classification" (In submission).
| Teaching Experience |
| Teaching Assistant, IST 420 Fundamentals of Systems and Enterprise Integration, College of Information Science and Technology, Penn State, Sept 2009-Dec. 2009 (Supervisor: Prof. John Hill) |
Consulting Experience
Graduate Student Consultant, Statistical Consulting Center, Department of Statistics, Penn State, Sept 2009-present
We offer statistical advice on research projects across the university and help researchers design experiments, analyze and interpret the data.
| Course Works |
| Conference Deadlines |
| Useful Links |
| Hand Book of Computational Statistics |
| Schedule of courses at Penn State |
| Courses of Statistics at Penn State |
| Python |
| R Programming and Markov chain Monte Carlo (from Dr. Murali Haran) |
| Graph Models (video lectures) |
| Social Network Analysis (courses, seminar ) |
| Information Retrieval Resources |
| Kernel Methods for pattern analysis |
| Machine Learning Groups (Upenn, UCSD) |
| Advice Collections for PhD students (from Dr. Yuan Xie) |
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Mu Qiao