Research Summary and Plan

Wu Jiang
wujiang@ccs.neu.edu

I started to do independent research on computational intelligence when I was a junior. At that time, my major was optics and electronic engineering. I found that doing research on computer science was more interesting to me -- I wanted to use algorithms to work on problems that affected daily life. A good program is like a piece of fine art. The art of problem solving, specifically in the field of computer science, can be applied to nearly every field.

Before I got my bachelor's degree at Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, I authored a paper which was published at the $19^{th}$ International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

I started working towards my master's degree in Computer Science at Northeastern University from Sept. 2009. During my first year I took classes in Program Design Paradigms, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation, and Information Retrieval.

My research in Northeastern University started in May 2009.

I got to know my summer research project advisor Professor Carole Hafner¹ during her AI class. I continued to work with her and a classmate, Karl Wiegand², to find a research project over the summer. Looking into the field of informatics we contacted Dr. Leonard D'Avolio³ from the VA Boston Healthcare System who directed us towards the i2b2 project⁴. I was intrigued by the opportunities that natural language processing technologies could contribute towards helping social health care systems.

During Professor Javed Aslam's⁵information retrieval class, I realized the importance as well as my own interest in the subject. In Sept. 2009, I began to do research on evaluating IR systems where judgments are incomplete under Professor Aslam.