Xiao ZHANG's Homepage

Ph.D. Candidate in

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Pennsylviania State University

Advisor: Professor Prasenjit Mitra

Resume (PDF)

Phone: 1-814-308-4830

Email: xiazhang@cse.psu.edu





About Me:

I received my bachelar's degree from School of Computer Science and Technology in Harbin Institute of Technology in July 2006. Then I came to Penn State to pursue Ph.D. Degree in Department of Computer and Engineering. The Chinese character of my first name (Xiao) means “deep and clear water”.

Project and Research:

My research interest lies in Text Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Databases. I'm now participating the GeoCAM project (a subproject of GeoVISTA) and designed and implemented the core components of the first module (route parts extraction and classification) of GeoCAM system (available at http://cxs03.ist.psu.edu:8080/GeoCAMWeb/). I focus on extraction and interpretation of accounts of movements in text documents. Now I'm concentrating on sentence level classification and extraction of structural and visual features of text from HTML documents, sequence labeling and semi-supervised learning to improve extraction accuracy.

In my first year, I did research in Databases. I focused on query processing and optimization in wireless broadcast environment. A paper based on that work was published in EDBT 2008.

Publication:

Xiao Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Sen Xu, Anuj R. Jaiswal, Alex Klippel, Alan MacEachren, Extracting Route Directions from Web Pages, WebDB 2009 (PDF).

Xiao Zhang, Wang-Chien Lee, Prasenjit Mitra, Baihua Zheng, Processing Transitive Nearest Neighbor Queries in Multi-channel Access Environment, Proceedings of EDBT 2008. (PDF) (Presentation in Nantes, France on March 28th, 2008 ppt version, pptx version)

Alexander Klippel, Alan MacEachren, Prasenjit Mitra, Ian Turton, Xiao Zhang, Anuj Jaiswal, Kean Soon, Jared Oyler and Rui Li, Geographic Analysis of Linguistically Encoded Movement Patterns - A Contextualized Perspective. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2008)

Professional Experiences:

Internship in Facebook, at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto in summer 2009. Worked in Facebook Search Team. Built filters for Stream Search results. Code changes now in product.

Internship in Microsoft Research Asia, at MSRA Beijing in summer 2008. Worked in Web Search and Data Mining group with Dr. Xing Xie. Did explorative work in traffic monitoring and modelling.

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