Biography

I am a third year Ph.D. candidate in Data Mining Research Group, College of Computer & Information Science, Northeastern University (NU). My advisors is Prof. Yizhou Sun. Before joining NU, I received my B.Eng from Honored Class of School of Computer Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2014.

Research Interests

• Embedding, User Profiling, Social Networks and Heterogeneous Networks
  

• Data Mining and Machine Learning
  

Publications

• Evolutionary Visual Analysis of Deep Neural Networks
  Wen Zhong, Cong Xie, Yuan Zhong, Yang Wang, Wei Xu, Shenghui Cheng and Klaus Mueller
  Proc. 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’17) Workshop on Visualization for Deep Learning, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2017.
  

• Location Prediction Through Activity Purpose: Integrating Temporal and Sequential Models
  Dongliang Liao, Yuan Zhong and Jing Li
  Proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD’17), Jeju, South Korea, May. 2017
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• Who Will Reply to/Retweet This Tweet? The Dynamics of Friendships and Online Social Interactions
  Nicholas Jing Yuan, Yuan Zhong, Fuzheng Zhang, Xing Xie, Chin-Yew Lin and Yong Rui
  Proceedings 2016 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '16), San Francisco, USA, Feb. 2016.
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• You Are Where You Go: Inferring Demographic Attributes from Location Check-ins
  Yuan Zhong, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Wen Zhong, Fuzheng Zhang and Xing Xie
  Proceedings 2015 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '15), Shanghai, China, Feb. 2015.
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Working Experiences

• Data Science Team, Ancestry.com
  Research Internship, May 2016-Aug. 2016
  Advisor : Dr. Lei Wu and Dr. Atanu Roy

• Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia
  Research Internship, Jul. 2013-Jun. 2014 & Jun. 2015-Sep. 2015
  Advisor : Dr. Xing Xie and Dr. Nicholas Jing Yuan

Teaching Experiences

• Data Mining Techniques (CS 6220), 2016 Fall & 2017 Spring
  College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
  

Honors and Awards

• Best Data Science Intern Award, Ancestry.com
  San Fransisco, USA, 2016

• ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant
  San Fransisco, USA, 2016

• Award of Excellence in Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program, Microsoft Research Asia
  Beijing, China, 2015

• Outstanding Award in National Undergraduate Research Program
  Hefei, China, 2013

• Meritorious Award in International Mathematical Contest in Modeling
  Hefei, China, 2013

• Outstanding Undergraduate Fellowship, University of Science and Technology of China
  Hefei, China, 2012, 2013

• First Prize of National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, China Computer Federation
  Jilin, China, 2009