October 2008 Archives

AAAI: stands for American Society for Artificial intelligence. This is the place where I last published and I am looking forward to this time again. I had the previlage of attending the conference at chicago where I had a chanc eto listen to the visionaries of Artificial intelligence community such as Eric horovitz and Kenneth Ford.

SIGIR: stands for ACM's special interest group in information retreival. Since my work is mainly focussed upon information extraction, this communitiy is among my list of academic aspirations.

CIKM: stands for conference in Knowledge Management.

 

I happen to talk to Mr. Jian Huang as per the week's assignment in a rather interview fashion than an informal one (as I am used to having many elevator talks with him). Much of the information required for this assignment is listed at the page http://www.personal.psu.edu/juh177/research.html  . However, I am writing the answers to the question for the sake of completeness.

• Jian's research is mainly focused upon applied machine learning. His dissertation topic is name disambiguation (i.e. segregating references to two different person with same names) using machine learning techniques.
• Jian has published in several conferences and has attended some of them such as JCDL '07 held at Vancouver, Canada. and PKDD 2006 in Berlin
• Jian has published more than 10 publications and the list can be obtained at the web-page mentioned above.
• Jian is finding himself more suited to Industry than academics and is thinking of joining industry after his graduation. Also, he finds himself progressing towards finishing his dissertation. All in all, he is finding himelf very well placed in IST.
• I find Jian similar to me as per our research area is concerned. I am exploring the area of machine learning as well to find the application of suitable technique to real world information retrieval problems.