Jian Huang is a fourth year PhD student in IST, and his advisor is Prof. C. Lee Giles. He is a member of the Intelligent Information Systems Lab, and so am I. But we are working with different advisors. He has been actively involved in the research and development of the next generation of CiteSeer--CiterSeerX, and now he is in progress of his dissertation on a very challenging and interesting topic of name disambiguation. Simply speaking, name disambiguation is trying to distinguish between persons with the same name. One application of the technology is in search of publication: given a name, there could be more than one researchers of this name among all publications, and the task is to assign these publications to the real researcher.
Jian is very productive in research. He has 5 publications in 2008, and more in previous years. He has presented his work in many conferences and earned several awards for his papers. He was a research intern in Yahoo! Research during the summer of 2007 and 2008, working on information extraction.
Jian's research is focused on learning and mining knowledge efficiently from massive data, including data mining, social network analysis, supervised learning methods, information retrieval, natural language processing, etc. Compared with Jian, my research subject is images rather than text. The primary goal of my research is to extract high level information from image data. But we share interests in areas like data mining and information retrieval.
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