Ping Luo

Biography

Ping is currently a Research Scientist in the Hewlett-Packard Labs, China. He recieved the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His general area of research is knowledge discovery and machine learning.

Research interests

• Web Mining
• Information Extraction
• Transfer Learning
• Topic Modeling

Awards

• Student Travel Award, ACM SIGKDD 2007
• Outstanding Graduate Student, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007
• President's Exceptional Student Award, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, 2007

Publications

• [TKDE 2010] Fuzhen Zhuang, Ping Luo, Hui Xiong, Yuhong Xiong, Qing He, and Zhongzhi Shi. "Cross-domain Learning From Multiple Sources: A Consensus Regularization Perspective". To appear in TKDE 2010. 
• [ICDM 2009] Zhiyong Shen, Ping Luo, Yuhong Xiong, Jun Sun, and Yidong Shen. "Topic Modeling for Sequences of Temporal Activities". To appear in ICDM 2009 (short paper).
• [CIKM 2009] Yuhong Xiong, Ping Luo, Yong Zhao, Fen Lin, Shicong Feng, Baoyao Zhou and Liwei Zheng. "OfCourse: Web Content Discovery, Classification and Information Extraction for Online Courses". To appear in CIKM 2009 (demo paper).  
• [DocEng 2009] Ping Luo, Jian Fan, Sam Liu, Fen Lin, Yuhong Xiong and Jerry Liu. "Web Article Extraction for Web Printing: a DOM+Visual based Approach", in the 9th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering.  
• [KDD 2009] Ping Luo, Fen Lin, Yuhong Xiong, Yong Zhao and Zhongzhi Shi. "Towards Combining Web Classification and Web Information Extraction: a Case Study". SIGKDD 2009 (short presentation, video).
• [TKDE 2009] Ping Luo, Hui Xiong, Guoxing Zhan, Junjie Wu and Zhongzhi Shi. "Information-Theoretic Distance Measures for Clustering Validation: Generalization and Normalization". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 21(9), 1249-1262 (2009).
• [ChinaScience 2009] Fuzhen Zhuang, Ping Luo, Qing He, and Zhongzhi Shi. "Inductive Transfer Learning for Unlabeled Target-domain via Hybrid Regularization". China Science Bulletin 54(14), 2470-2478 (2009).
• [CIKM 2008] Ping Luo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Hui Xiong, Yuhong Xiong and Qing He. "Transfer Learning from Multiple Source Domains via Consensus Regularization". CIKM, 2008 (regular paper).    
• [KDD 2007] Ping Luo, Hui Xiong, Kevin Lv and Zhongzhi Shi. "Distributed Classification in Peer-to-Peer Networks". SIGKDD, 2007 (regular presentation, video).
• [TIT 2007] Ping Luo, Guoxing Zhan, Qing He, Zhongzhi Shi and Kevin Lv. "On Defining Partition Entropy by Inequalities". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 53(9), 3233-3239 (2007).
• [JPDC 2007] Ping Luo, Kevin Lv and Zhongzhi Shi. "A Revisit of Greedy Heuristic for Mapping a Class of Independent Task onto Heterogeneous Computing Systems". Journal of Distributed and Parallel Computing 67, 695-714 (2007).

Patents

2

Professional activities

• OfCourse (search engine for online courses from USA universities)  
• Program Committee Member: SIGKDD 2010