Lanbo Zhang

E2-477, UC Santa Cruz

1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Email: lanbo@soe.ucsc.edu, lanbozhang@gmail.com

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I am a PhD candidate of the Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (IRKM) Lab at University of California, Santa Cruz. My Advisor is Professor Yi Zhang. You can find my CV here.

Last Modified: 09/20/2011

Research Interests

I am currently working on Adaptive Information Filtering, Personalized Recommendation, and Social Media Ranking and Analysis. I am also interested in some other topics in Information Retrieval, Data Mining, and Machine Learning including Faceted Search, Active Learning, Learning from Features, Mining Social Networks, etc.

News !!!

SIGIR 2011 student travel grant

I did a summer internship at IBM Research Almaden working on Adverse Drug Effects Mining (06/13/2011-09/23/2011)

Professional Activities

1) PC member, ECIR 2012

2) PC member, AIRS 2011

3) Reviewer for IJCNLP 2011, AIRS 2010, etc.

Education

1. Since Sep. 08, Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz

2. July 2008, M.S. in Computer Application Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

3. July 2005, B.S. in Computer Software Technology, Tsinghua University

Publications

1) Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang, Qianli Xing. Filtering Semi-Structured Documents Based on Faceted Feedback. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGIR Conference, 2011 (SIGIR 2011). Full paper. Acceptance rate: 19.8%

2) Qianli Xing, Yi Zhang, Lanbo Zhang. On Bias Problem in Relevance Feedback. To appear in Proceedings of the 20th ACM CIKM conference, 2011 (CIKM 2011). Poster. Acceptance rate: 31.1%

3) Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang. Interactive Retrieval based on Faceted Feedback. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGIR Conference, 2010 (SIGIR 2010). Full paper. Acceptance rate: 16.7%

4) Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang. Discriminative Factored Prior Model for Personalized Content-Based Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM CIKM Conference, 2010 (CIKM 2010). Short Paper. Acceptance rate: 31.3% (The longer version)

5) Lanbo Zhang, Yi Zhang, Jadiel de Arma, Kai Yu. UCSC at Relevance Feedback Track. In Proceedings of the 17th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, USA, 2009. (Ranked 2nd)

6) Lanbo Zhang, Shancong Zhang, Weiwei Chen. A Dynamic Link Model of Code on Embedded System. Computer Engineering & Design (in Chinese). 2008

7) Lanbo Zhang, Xiaomin Jin. Design of a Web-based Search Engine for Academic Papers. Technical Report (in Chinese), 2005

8) Lanbo Zhang, Xiaomin Jin. Implementation of Text Watermark System Based on Synonym Replacement. Technical Report (in Chinese), 2004