b'Yisong Yue\nwebsite: www.yisongyue.com\n\nemail: yisongyue@gmail.com\n\nResearch Interest My research interests lie primarily in machine learning, data analysis and information retrieval.\nEducation\n\nCornell University\nPh.D. in Computer Science\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\nBachelor of Science in Computer Science\n\n2005 - 2010\n\n2001 - 2005\nGraduated with Highest Honors\n\nWork Experience Carnegie Mellon University\nPostdoctoral Scientist\nPittsburgh, PA\n2010 \xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x93 Present\nDeveloped new online learning techniques; worked on deployment algorithms for ambulance\ndeployment.\nGoogle, Inc.\nMountain View, CA\nAnalysis user behavior using search traffic.\nMicrosoft Research\nRedmond, WA\nOptimized ranking functions for web search.\n\nSearch Quality Analysis Intern\nSummer 2009\n\nResearch Intern\nSummer 2007\n\nNVIDIA Corporation\nArchitecture Engineer Intern\nSanta Clara, CA\nSummer 2005\nDeveloped internal tools to assist GPU simulation and data mining.\nMicrosoft Corporation\nSoftware Design Engineer Intern\nRedmond, WA\nSummer 2004\nDesigned and wrote a customized certificate API for authentication and data encryption.\nMicrosoft Corporation\nSoftware Design Engineer Intern\nRedmond, WA\nSummer 2003\nUsed DirectX with HLSL to prototype imaging effects that are processed on the GPU.\nProjects\n\nAn SVM Approach for Diversified Recommendations\nFall 2007\nDeveloped novel SVM approach to optimized a parameterized class of submodular functions for\ndiversified retrieval.\nAn SVM Approach to Optimizing Mean Average Precision\nSummer 2006\nUsed a novel approach based on multivariate SVMs to optimize for mean average precision.\nFinding Influential Blogs via Link Prediction\nSpring 2006\nUsed machine learning and link analysis techniques to determine the amount of influence blogs\nexert on each other.\nLoss-Minimizing Voting for Machine Learning Ensembles\nSpring 2006\nExplored voting schemes which minimizes a loss function for an ensemble of learning models.\nParameter Estimation for MRF-Stereo with Occlusions\nFall 2005\nUsed an EM-method to iteratively compute superior parameters for the baseline MRF-stereo\nalgorithm with occlusions.\nFast Ray Intersection Testing on GPU\nFall 2004 - Spring 2005\nExplored methods of fast ray intersection testing by utilizing an NVIDIA Geforce 6800.\nIllini Book Exchange\n2002-2005\nhttp://www.illinibookexchange.com\nWorked on development, management and marketing of Illini Book Exchange for the Technology\nand Management Club at UIUC.\n\n\x0cReflections Projections\nFall 2004\nhttp://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/\nHelped plan and manage Reflections Projections 2004 as Treasurer of ACM @ UIUC.\nActivities\n\nCornell Teaching Assistant (TA Excellence Award)\nTeaching assistant for new course on social and information networks.\n\nFall 2006\n\nCornell Teaching Assistant (TA Excellence Award)\nFall 2005 - Spring 2006\nTaught two sections of CS 100M during the Fall and Spring semesters of the 2005-6 academic\nyear. Received award in recognition of performance.\nUIUC ACM Treasurer\nFall 2004 - Spring 2005\nManaged all financial responsibilities of local chapter of ACM. Assisted the Chair in general\nmanagement of ACM.\nUIUC ACM SIGGRAPH Chair\nSpring 2004\nManaged the local chapter of SIGGRAPH, organized projects and workshops/tutorials'