Chong Wang

Computer Science Department
Princeton University
35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540 USA

Tel: (609) 258-1797
Fax: (609) 258-1771
Email: chongw at cs.princeton.edu
Web: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chongw

About me

I am a graduate student in Computer Science Department, Princeton University, working with Prof. David Blei.
I was an intern at Microsoft Research for the summer of 2008 and 2009, working with Bo Thiesson and Chris Meek.
I was as an assistant researcher at Microsoft Research Asia from 2006 to 2007. Managers: Xing Xie and Wei-Ying Ma.
I received my M.E. and B.E. from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University.
I have a CV here.

Research Interests

• Probabilistic graphical models and approximate inference algorithms
• Nonparametric Bayesian statistics
• Topic modeling and information retrieval

Selected Publications

Refereed Conference papers

• Chong Wang and David Blei. Variational inference for the nested Chinese restaurant process. In NIPS, 2009.
• Chong Wang and David Blei. Decoupling sparsity and smoothness in the discrete hierarchical Dirichlet process. In NIPS, 2009.
• Jonathan Chang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Sean Gerrish, Chong Wang and David Blei. Reading tea leaves: how humans interpret topic models. In NIPS, 2009.
• Chong Wang, David Blei and Li Fei-Fei. Simultaneous image classification and annotation. In CVPR, 2009.
• Chong Wang, Bo Thiesson, Chris Meek and David Blei. Markov topic models. In AISTATS, 2009.
• Chong Wang, David Blei and David Heckerman. Continuous time dynamic topic models. In UAI, 2008.
• Rui Cai, Chao Zhang, Chong Wang, Lei Zhang and Wei-Ying Ma. MusicSense: contextual music recommendation using emotional allocation modeling. In ACM Multimedia, 2007.
• Patrick Baudisch, Xing Xie, Chong Wang and Wei-Ying Ma. Collapse-to-zoom: viewing web pages on small screen devices by interactively removing irrelevant content. In UIST, 2004.

Refereed Journal papers

• Chong Wang. Variational Bayesian approach to canonical correlation analysis. IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 18(3): 905-910, 2007.
• Chong Wang and Wenyuan Wang. Links between PPCA and subspace method for complete Gaussian density estimation. IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 17(3): 789-792, 2006.
• Xing Xie, Chong Wang, Li-Qun Chen and Wei-Ying Ma. An adaptive web page layout structure for small devices. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 11(1): 34-44, 2005.
• Hairong Lv, Wenyuan Wang, Chong Wang and Qing Zhuo. Off-line Chinese signature verification based on support vector machines. Pattern Recognition Letters, 26(15): 2390-2399, 2005.

Scientific Software

• C++ implementation of supervised latent Dirichlet allocation (sLDA) for classification, available at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chongw/slda.

Last updated: Oct. 4, 2009