Hongning Wang

News

• Janurary 24, 2017

  Thanks Nvidia for the generious support of a Titan XP GPU!

• December 24, 2017

  Our proposal of "The Building Adapter: Automatic Mapping of Commercial Buildings for Scalable Building Analytics" has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. More details about this award can be found here.

• September 1, 2017

  Our proposal of "Cyber Physical Mappings - Empower Building Analytics at Scale" has been funded by NSF IIS program. More details about this award can be found here.

• July 18, 2017

  I gave an invitated talk about "Contextual Bandits in a Collaborative Environment" at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing China.

• June 15, 2017

  We have been awarded by the Yelp Dataset Challenge Round Eight!

• January 1, 2017

  Our group homepage is now available at HCDM@UVa.

• September 16, 2016

  Our proposal of "Collaborative Sensing: An Approach for Immediately Scalable Sensing in Buildings" has been funded by NSF CPS program. More details about this award can be found here.

• August 1, 2016

  Our proposal of "Collaborative Learning with Incomplete and Noisy Knowledge" has been funded by NSF III program. More details about this award can be found here.

• March 5, 2016

  I gave an invitated talk about "Collaborative Online Learning" at Yahoo Search Science Team.

• December 30, 2015

  I have received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. More details about this award can be found here.

• December 21, 2015

  Our proposal of "Call for Special Issue on Search, Mining and their Applications on Mobile Devices" has been accepted by the ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Call for papers will be announced shortly.

• March 20, 2015

  I gave an invitated talk about "Human-centric big data mining" at Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech.

• Janurary 29, 2015

  I gave an invitated talk about "Human-centric big data mining" in Quantitative Psychology Group in the Department of Psychology at UVa.

• Janurary 12, 2015

  My research is reported on UVa Today.

• December 22, 2014

  The course website for CS6501 Text Mining has been deployed.

• December 9, 2014

  I was selected for the WSDM 2015 Outstanding Reviewer Award.

• December 1, 2014

  I have position opennings for Ph.D. students for Fall 2015. If you are self-motivated and want to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the areas of data mining and information retrieval, please contact me. More information about the graduate admission at CS@UVa can be found here. Please note the application deadline is December 15th, 2014.

• November 10, 2014

  I am going to offer CS6501: Text Mining next Spring semester.

• August 26, 2014

  I am offering CS6501: Information Retrieval this Fall semester.

• August 25, 2014

  I joined CS@UVa as an assistant professor.

Award and Honor

• 2017 Jul, SIGIR 2017 Outstanding Reviewer award;
• 2017 Jun, Yelp Dataset Challenge Round Eight Winner;
• 2015 Dec, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award;
• 2014 Oct, Yahoo 2014 Academic Career Enhancement award;
• 2014 Jul, U.Va. Excellence in Diversity Fellowship;
• 2012 Jun, Google Ph.D. Fellowship, (U of I Graduate College News);
• 2012 Apr, Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge Award;
• 2014 Apr, Yahoo!-DAIS Research Excellence Golden Award;
• 2013 Mar, Yahoo!-DAIS Research Excellence Bronze Award;
• 2011 Oct, Yahoo!-DAIS Research Excellence Bronze Award;
• 2009 Jun, Best Master Thesis Award in Tsinghua University (3 out of 472);
• 2009 Jun, Excellent Master Graduate Student Scholarship in Tsinghua University (3 out of 472);
• 2008 Oct, Morgan Stanley Scholarship (10 out of 1000);
• 2007 Jun, Best Undergraduate Thesis Award in Tsinghua University (10 out of 178);
• 2007 Jun, Excellent Undergraduate Student Scholarship in Tsinghua University (10 out of 178).

Invited Talks

• University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Feburary 9, 2018. "Contextual Bandits in a Collaborative Environment".
• Snap Research Group, Feburary 7, 2018. "Contextual Bandits in a Collaborative Environment".
• Amazon Applied Research Group, October 2, 2017. "Contextual Bandits in a Collaborative Environment".
• Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, July 18, 2017. "Contextual Bandits in a Collaborative Environment".
• Yahoo Search Science team, March 5, 2016. "Collaborative online learning".
• Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, March 20, 2015. "Human-centric big data mining".
• Quantitative Psychology Group in the Department of Psychology at UVa, Janurary 2015. "Human-centric big data mining".
• University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, October 2014. "A Task-based Framework for User Behavior Modeling and Search Personalization".
• The 4th workshop on Web Search Click Data (WSCD'2014), Feburary 2014. Keynote speech on "A Search-task-based Framework for Modeling User Search Behaviors" (slides).
• Search science and anti-abuse science group, Yahoo! Labs, October 2013. Invited talk on "A Task-Based Framework for Search Log Mining and Personalization".

Academic Activities

• Program committee member:
  • International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR): 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
  • International ACM KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD): 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
  • The World Wide Web Conference (WWW): 2018, 2016, 2015
  • ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2018 (SPC), 2017, 2016, 2015
  • Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): 2018, 2017, 2015
  • ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM): 2017, 2015, 2014
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): 2014, 2013, 2012
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2018, 2017
• Journal reviewer: TKDE, TOIS, TPAMI, TOIS, Neurocomputing, BMC Bioinformatics, Information Processing & Management, IJAIT, Neural Processing Letters, World Wide Web Journal, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics.
• Public services: WSDM 2018 Demo Track chair, CIKM 2016 Publicity chair, AIRS 2016 area chair for IR Models and Theories, NLPCC 2015 area chair for Search and Advertisement.

Selected Publications

1. Lin Gong and Hongning Wang. When Sentiment Analysis Meets Social Network: A Holistic User Behavior Modeling in Opinionated Data. The 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), 2018. (to appear)
2. Nan Wang, Yiling Jia, Yue Yin and Hongning Wang. Explainable Recommendation via Multi-Task Learning in Opinionated Text Data. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), 2018. (to appear)
3. Wasi Ahmad, Kai-Wei Chang and Hongning Wang. Intent-aware Query Obfuscation for Privacy Protection in Personalized Web Search. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), 2018. (to appear)
4. Qingyun Wu, Naveen Iyer and Hongning Wang. Learning Contextual Bandits in a Non-stationary Environment. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), 2018. (to appear)
5. Huazheng Wang, Ramsey Langley, Sonwoo Kim, Eric McCord-Snook and Hongning Wang. Efficient Exploration of Gradient Space for Online Learning to Rank. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), 2018. (to appear)
6. Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Kai-Wei Chang, and Hongning Wang. Multi-Task Learning for Document Ranking and Query Suggestion. Sixth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018), 2018. (PDF)
7. Qingyun Wu, Hongning Wang, Liangjie Hong and Yue Shi. Returning is Believing: Optimizing Long-term User Engagement in Recommender Systems. The 26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), p1927-1936, 2017. (PDF)
8. Huazheng Wang, Qingyun Wu and Hongning Wang. Learning Hidden Features for Contextual Bandits. The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), p1633-1642, 2016. (PDF, code)
9. Qingyun Wu, Huazheng Wang, Quanquan Gu and Hongning Wang. Contextual Bandits in A Collaborative Environment. The 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2016), p529-538, 2016. (PDF, Slides, code)
10. Dezhi Hong, Hongning Wang, Jorge Ortiz and Kamin Whitehouse. The Building Adapter: Towards Quickly Applying Building Analytics at Scale. ACM BuildSys 2015, p123-132, 2015. (Best Paper Candidate) (PDF, slides)
11. Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ahmed Hassan and Ryen White. Modeling Action-level Satisfaction for Search Task Satisfaction Prediction. The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2014), p123-132, 2014. (PDF, slides)
12. Hongning Wang, Xiaodong He, Ming-Wei Chang, Yang Song, Ryen White and Wei Chu. Personalized Ranking Model Adaptation for Web Search. The 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2013), p323-332, 2013. (PDF, slides)
13. Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ryen White and Wei Chu. Learning to Extract Cross-Session Search Tasks. The 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW'2013), p1353-1364, 2013. (PDF, slides)
14. Hongning Wang, Yue Lu and ChengXiang Zhai. Latent Aspect Rating Analysis without Aspect Keyword Supervision. The 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2011), P618-626, 2011. (PDF, slides, Demo)
15. Hongning Wang, Yue Lu and Chengxiang Zhai. Latent Aspect Rating Analysis on Review Text Data: A Rating Regression Approach. The 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2010), p783-792, 2010. (PDF, slides, Demo, codes)