Chong Wang [CV] PhD candidate (expected 2012), Computer Science Department, Princeton University. Advisor: Prof. David M. Blei. Tel: (609) 258-1797 Fax: (609) 258-1771 Email: chongw at cs.princeton.edu Mailing Address: Princeton University Computer Science Department 35 Olden Street Princeton, NJ 08540

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• Research interests:
  • Probabilistic graphical models and approximate inference algorithms
  • Nonparametric Bayesian statistics
  • Topic modeling, information retrieval and recommender systems
  • Making things work, interpretable and understandable

• Awards:
  • Siebel Scholar, class of 2012
  • Best student paper award at KDD 2011
  • Notable paper award at AISTATS 2011
  • Google PhD fellowship in machine learning 2010-2012
  • Outstanding student paper honorable mention at NIPS 2009

• Working experiences:
  • Research intern, Google Research New York, summer 2011
  • Research intern, Microsoft Research Redmond, summer 2008 and 2009
  • Assistant researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, 2006-2007

• Software
• Recent work (More publications):

  • Chong Wang and David M. Blei.
    Collaborative topic modeling for recommending scientific articles.
    In KDD 2011.
    Oral presentation and best student paper award.
    [demo]

  • Chong Wang, John Paisley and David M. Blei.
    Online variational inference for the hierarchical Dirichlet process.
    In AISTATS 2011.
    Oral presentation.

  • John Paisley, Chong Wang and David M. Blei.
    The discrete infinite logistic normal distribution for mixed-membership modeling.
    In AISTATS 2011.
    Oral presentation and notable paper award.