Summary
Hi! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I am part of the Text Information Management and Analysis Group. My advisor is Prof. ChengXiang Zhai. My research interests are at the intersection of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. I am especially interested in novel Machine Learning and Text Mining methods for the Security problem domain.
News
- May, 2018: I will be joining the Big Data Lab at Baidu Research USA this summer.
- April 21, 2018: Our short-paper on the Importance of External Knowledge in the Named Entity Recognition Task was accepted to ACL 2018.
- April 19, 2018: Our paper on Identifying Compromised Accounts on Social Media Using Statistical Text Analysis is now available on arXiv.
- April 11, 2018: Our short-paper with IBM Research was accepted to SIGIR 2018. Title: “An Information Retrieval Framework for Contextual Suggestion Based on Heterogeneous Information Network Embeddings”
Education
August 2016 – current:
Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
April 2013 – October 2015:
M.Sc. in Computer Science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
October 2009 – February 2013:
B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany
Research Experience
August 2016 – current:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Assistant
May 2017 – December 2017:
IBM Research
Research Intern – Cognitive User Experience Lab
January 2016 – June 2016:
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Research Associate
June 2013 – December 2015:
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Research Assistant
Teaching Experience
Spring 2018:
CS 410: Text Information Systems (Prof. ChengXiang Zhai)
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2017:
CS 510: Advanced Information Retrieval (Prof. ChengXiang Zhai)
Teaching Assistant
Reviewer
2017: Semantic Web journal
Honors and Awards
2017:
SIGIR Travel Grant (awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery)
2016:
Computer Science Excellence Fellowship (awarded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)