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							Dou Shen

Education      Hong Kong University of Science and Technology                                 Hong Kong, China
                 Ph.D                                                                    Aug. 2004 - Jun. 2007
                 Department of Computer Science and Engineering

               Tsinghua University                                                                Beijing, China
                 Master of Engineering                                                     Sept. 2001 - Jul. 2004
                 Department of Computer Science and Technology

               North China Electric Power University                                              Beijing, China
                 Bachelor of Engineering                                                   Sept. 1997 - Jul. 2001
                 Department of Computer Science and Technology

Employment     CityGrid Media                                                                Bellevue, WA, USA
                 Senior Director                                                                April 2011 - now

               Buzzlabs (acquired by IAC/CityGrid Media)                                     Bellevue, WA, USA
                 Co-Founder                                                         December 2010 - April 2011

               Microsoft Audience Intelligence                                              Redmond, WA, USA
                 Research Program Mananger                                                 May 2009 - Nov 2010

               Microsoft adCenter Labs                                                      Redmond, WA, USA
                 Applied Researcher                                                        Aug. 2007 - May 2009

Professional   Co-Chair
Activities        - 5th International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising 2011
                  - 4th International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising 2010
                  - 3rd International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising 2009
                  - 2nd International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising 2008
                  - 1st International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising 2007

               PC Member
                  - The 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
                    (KDD) Research Track and Industry Track, 2011
                  - The 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Senior PC. 2011
                  - The 4thACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2011
                  - The International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2011
                  - The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language
                    Technologies (ACL/HLT) 2011
                  - The 3rd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML) 2011
                  - The 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2011
                  - International Conference on Social Computing and Applications , 2011
                  - The 33rd ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Re-
                    trieval (SIGIR) 2010
- The 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  (KDD) 2010
- The 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2010
- The International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2010
- The ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010
- The ACM 19th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
- The 2nd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML)
- The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 2010
- The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2010
- The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN) 2010
- SIGIR 2010 workshop “Query Representation and Understanding”
- The 32nd ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Re-
  trieval (SIGIR) 2009
- The International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2009
- The 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2009
- The ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2009
- The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2009
- The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2009
- The 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2009
- The 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2009
- The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) 2009
- The Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age
  Information Management (WAIM) 2009
- The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML) 2009
- The 2009 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
  (ASONAM) 2009
- The 5th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management
  (AAIM) 2009
- The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN) 2009
- The International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval(KDIR) 2009
- SIGIR 2009 Workshop Information Retrieval and Advertising (IRA) 2009
- The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  (KDD) 2008
- The International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2008
- The 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2008
- The ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2008
- The ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2008
- The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2008
- The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) 2008
- The 2nd SNA-KDD Workshop (SNAKDD) 2008
- The WWW Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SWSM) 2008
- The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2007
                  - The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) 2007

               Reviewer
                 TKDD, JAIR, JMLR, TOIS, TWEB, CACM, TKDE, IPM, KAIS, INS, TCBB, TIST

U.S. Patents   13 pending patents. Details available upon request.

               Method and System for Classifying Display Pages Using Summaries.
               Method and System for Summarizing a Document.
               Comparative Web Search.
               Building Bridges for Web Query Classification.
               Constructing Web Query Hierarchies from Click-Through Data.
               Improved Ad Retrieval for User Search on Social Network Sites.
               Predicting Future Queries from Log Data
               Advertisable Semantic Units
               Context-Aware Query Classification
               Selecting Advertisement for Presentation with Search Results
               Defining User Intent
               Action-aware Intent-based Behavior Targeting
               User Intent Strength Aggregating by Decay Factor

Selected       JOURNAL PAPERS
Publications     1. Xiang Wang, Xiaoming Jin, Meng-En Chen, Kai Zhang, Dou Shen. Topic Mining over Asyn-
                    chronous Text Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),
                    2010.
                 2. Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Dou Shen, Alex Acero. Learning with Click Graph for Query Intent
                    Classification. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Volume 28, No. 3, July
                    2010.
                 3. Jie Yin, Qiang Yang, Dou Shen and Ze-Nian Li. Activity Recognition via User-Trace Seg-
                    mentation. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 4, Issue 4, November
                    2008.
                 4. Dou Shen, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Noise Reduction through Summarization for Web-page
                    Classification. Information Processing and Management (IPM). Pages 1735-1747. Volume 43,
                    Issue 6, November 2007.
                 5. Dou Shen, Rong Pan, Jian-Tao Sun, Jeffrey J. Pan, Kangheng Wu, Jie Yin and Qiang Yang.
                    Query Enrichment for Web-query Classification. ACM Transactions on Information Systems
                    (TOIS). Pages 1-33. Volume 24, No. 3, July 2006.
                 6. Gui-Rong Xue, Yong Yu, Dou Shen, Qiang Yang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen. Reinforcing
                    Web-object Categorization through Interrelationships. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
                    (DMKD). Pages 229-248. Volume 12, Number 2-3, May 2006.
                 7. Jian-Tao Sun, Dou Shen, Yuchang Lu. Web Page Categorization Techniques. Tsinghua
                    Academic Journal (Natural Science Version) , Pages 65-69. Volume 44, No.1, January 2004.

               ARTICLES
                 1. Jun Yan, Dou Shen, Teresa Mah, Ning Liu, Zheng Chen, Ying Li. Behavioral Targeting
                    Online Advertising. Book Chapter in Online Multimedia Advertising: Techniques and Tech-
                    nologies. 2010.
 2. Dou Shen, Arun C. Surendran, Ying Li. Report on the Second KDD Workshop on Data
    Mining for Advertising. SIGKDD Explorations. Page 47-50. Volume 10, Issue 2, December
    2008.
 3. Dou Shen. Text Categorization. Encyclopedia of Database Systems. 2008.
 4. Dou Shen. Text Summarization. Encyclopedia of Database Systems. 2008.
 5. Ying Li, Arun C. Surendran, Dou Shen. Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Adver-
    tising. SIGKDD Explorations. Page 96-99. Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2007.
 6. Dou Shen, Rong Pan, Jian-Tao Sun, Jeffrey J. Pan, Kangheng Wu, Jie Yin and Qiang
    Yang. Q2C@UST: Our Winning Solution to Query Classification in KDD Cup 2005. SIGKDD
    Explorations. Page 100-110. Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2005.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
 1. Meng-En Chen, Xiaoming Jin, Dou Shen. Short Text Classification Improved by Learning
    Multi-Granularity Topics. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference
    on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’11). Barcelona, Spain. July 16-22, 2011.
 2. Bin Cao, Dou Shen, Kusansan Wang and Qiang Yang. Clickthrough Log Analysis by Col-
    laborate Ranking. In Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (AAAI-10). Atlanta, Georgia, USA. July 11-15, 2010.
 3. Mingsheng Long, Wei Cheng, Xiaoming Jin, Jianmin Wang, Dou Shen. Transfer Learning via
    Cluster Correspondence Inference. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference
    on Data Mining (ICDM-10). Sydney, Australia, USA. December 14-17, 2010.
 4. Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Dou Shen, Depin Chen, Zheng Chen and Ying Li. Learning to Rank
    Audience for Behavioral Targeting. In Proceedings of the 33th ACM International Confer-
    ence on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’10). Poster. Geneva,
    Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010.
 5. Derek Hao Hu, Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Context-Aware On-
    line Commercial Intention Detection. In The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning
    (ACML’09). Nanjing, China. Novemeber 2-4, 2009.
 6. Dou Shen, Ying Li, Xiao Li, Dengyong Zhou. Product Query Classification. In Proceed-
    ings of the ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’09).
    Industrial paper. Hong Kong, China. November 2-6, 2009.
 7. Dou Shen, Jianmin Wu, Bin Cao, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Ying Li. Exploiting Term
    Relationship To Boost Text Classification. In Proceedings of the ACM 18th Conference on
    Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’09). Short paper. Hong Kong, China.
    November 2-6, 2009.
 8. Huanhuan Cao, Derek Hu, Dou Shen, Daxin Jiang, Jian-Tao Sun, Enhong Chen, Qiang
    Yang. Context-Aware Query Classification. In Proceedings of the 32th ACM International
    Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’09). Boston,
    USA, July 19-23, 2009.
 9. Xiang Wang, Kai Zhang, Xiao-Ming Jin, Dou Shen. Mining Common Topics from Multiple
    Asynchronous Text Streams. In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on
    Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’09). Catalunya, Spain. Feb 9-11, 2009 .
10. Sinno Jialin Pan, Dou Shen, Qiang Yang and James T. Kwok. Transferring Localization
    Models Across Space. In Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (AAAI’08). Chicago, Illinois, USA. July 2008.
11. Vincent Zheng, Qiang Yang, Evan Xiang, Dou Shen. Transferring Localization Models Over
    Time. In Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’08).
    Chicago, Illinois, USA. July 2008.
12. Dou Shen, Toby Walker, Zijian Zheng, Qiang Yang, Ying Li. Personal Name Classification
    in Web Queries. In Proceedings of the First ACM International Conference on Web Search
    and Data Mining (WSDM 08). Stanford, California, USA. February 11-12, 2008.
13. Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Hua Li, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Document Summarization using
    Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference
    on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’07). Hyderabad, India. January 6-12, 2007.
14. Dou Shen, Min Qin, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Mining Web Query Hierarchies
    from Clickthrough Data. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial
    Intelligence (AAAI’07). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 22 - 26, 2007.
15. Bin Cao, Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang and Zheng Chen. Feature Selection in
    a Kernel Space. In Proceedings of The 24th Annual International Conference on Machine
    Learning (ICML’07). Oregon, USA. June 20-24, 2007.
16. Bin Cao, Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Latent Factor
    Detection and Tracking with Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. In Proceedings of the
    Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’07). Hyderabad,
    India. January 6-12, 2007.
17. Rong Pan, Junhui Zhao, Wenchen Zheng, Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Dou Shen, Jialin Pan, and
    Qiang Yang. Domain-Constrained Semi-Supervised Mining of Tracking Models in Sensor Net-
    works. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowl-
    edge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’07), Industry Track. San Jose, California, USA, Aug
    12-15, 2007.
18. Jinlong Wang, Congfu Xu, Dou Shen, and Guojing Luo. Understanding Topic Influence
    Based on Module Network. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Asian
    Digital Libraries (ICADL’07). Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec 10-13, 2007.
19. Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Text Classification Improved through
    Multigram Models. In Proceedings of the ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and
    Knowledge Management (CIKM’06). Arlington, USA. November 6-11, 2006.
20. Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Building Bridges for Web Query Clas-
    sification. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Research and Devel-
    opment in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’06). Seattle, USA, August 6-11, 2006.
21. Dou Shen, Qiang Yang, Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen. Thread Detection in Dynamic Text
    Message Streams. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Research and
    Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’06). Seattle, USA, August 6-11, 2006.
22. Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Hui Zhao, Zheng Chen. Text Classification Improved
    through Automatically Extracted Sequences. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Con-
    ference on Data Engineering (ICDE’06). Poster. Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.
23. Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. A Comparison of Implicit and Explicit
    Links for Web Page Classification. In Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference 2006
    (WWW’06). Edinburgh, United Kingdom, May 23-26, 2006.
24. Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen. CWS: A Comparative
    Web Search System. In Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference 2006 (WWW’06).
    Edinburgh, United Kingdom, May 23-26, 2006.
25. Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen. Mining Clickthrough
    Data for Collaborative Web Search. In Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference 2006
    (WWW’06). Poster. Edinburgh, United Kingdom, May 23-26, 2006.
26. Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Latent Friend Mining from Blog Data.
    Latent Friend Mining from Blog Data. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Con-
    ference on Data Mining (ICDM’06). Hong Kong China. December 18 - 22, 2006.
27. Hua Li, Dou Shen, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Qiang Yang. Adding Semantics to Email Clus-
    tering. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’06).
    Hong Kong China. December 18 - 22, 2006.
28. Jie Yin, Dou Shen, Qiang Yang and Ze-Nian Li. Activity Recognition through Goal-Based
    Segmentation. In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (AAAI’05). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 2005.
29. Jian-Tao Sun, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Qiang Yang, Yuchang Lu and Zheng Chen. Web-
    Page Summarization Using Click-Through Data. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International
    Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’05 ). Salvador,
    Brazil. August 15-19, 2005.
30. Dou Shen, Zheng Chen, Qiang Yang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Yuchang Lu, Wei-Ying
    Ma. Web-page Classification through Summarization. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Inter-
    national Conference of Information Retrieval (SIGIR’04). Shefield, UK. July 25-29, 2004.
31. Gui-Rong Xue, Dou Shen, Qiang Yang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, and Wei-Ying Ma. IRC:
    An Iterative Reinforcement Categorization Algorithm for Interrelated Web Objects. In Pro-
    ceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’04). Brighton,
    UK. November 01 - 04, 2004.
32. Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. Web Page Clustering
    Enhanced by Summarization. In Proceedings of the ACM Thirteenth Conference on Informa-
    tion and Knowledge Management (CIKM’04). Poster. Washington D.C., U.S.A. November
    8-13, 2004.
33. Yan Cong, Dou Shen, Yuchang Lu, Yong Wang. Research and Implementation of Automatic
    Summarization System. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of China Neural Networks
    Council (CNNC 03). 2003.
34. Dou Shen, Yan Cong, Jian-Tao Sun, Yu-Chang Lu. Studies on Chinese Web page classi-
    fication. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Machine Learning and
    Cybernetics (ICMLC 03). Xi’an, China. Nov 2-5, 2003.

WORKSHOP PAPERS
 1. Sarah K Tyler, Yi. Zhang, Dou Shen. Collaborative Advertising: Exploring Collaborative
    Filtering for Sponsered Search. In ACM SIGIR 2009 Workshop: Information Retrieval and
    Advertising, Boston, USA, July, 2009.
 2. Zeyu Zheng, Jun Yan, Chi Zhang, Dou Shen, Zheng Chen, Ying Li. Learning Query Intent
    for Sponsored Search. In ACM KDD 2010 Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Data
    Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising, Washington D.C, USA, July, 2010.
 3. Siyu Gu, Jun Yan, Zhanyong Xiao, Ning Liu, Dou Shen, Weiguo Fan, Lei Ji, Zheng Chen,
    Ying Chen. What Are Driving Users to Click Ads? User Habit, Attitude, and Commercial
    Intention. In ACM KDD 2010 Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Data Mining and
    Audience Intelligence for Advertising, Washington D.C, USA, July, 2010.

EDITED PROCEEDINGS
 1. Ying Li, Dou Shen. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Data Mining and
    Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD10). DC, USA. Jul. 25, 2010.
 2. Ying Li, Arun C. Surendran, Dou Shen. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on
    Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD09). Paris, France. Jun. 28,
    2009.
 3. Ying Li, Arun C. Surendran, Dou Shen. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop
    on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD08). Las Vegas, Nevada,
    USA. Aug. 24, 2008.
              4. Ying Li, Dou Shen, Arun C. Surendran. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on
                 Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD07). San Jose, California,
                 USA. Aug. 12, 2007.

Honors and   • Microsoft Gold Star Award                                                                2010
Awards
             • Microsoft Gold Star Award                                                                2009
             • First Prize of the Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition organized by the IEEE
               (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter                                             2007
             • Champion of the 2005 ACM KDDCUP Competition on all three metrics,         Aug. 2005
                 Query Categorization Precision Award (24.3% higher than the runner-up)
                 Query Categorization Performance Award (9.6% higher than the runner-up)
                 Query Categorization Creativity Award
             • Microsoft Fellowship 2004,                                                        Nov. 2004
             • IBM Student Scholarship for attendance at WWW2006,                                Mar. 2006
             • Awards at Tsinghua University
                 Outstanding Graduate Student in Tsinghua University,                            Jul.    2004
                 Nomination of Best Master Thesis,                                               Jul.    2004
                 Second Rank Outstanding Social Work Scholarship in Tsinghua University,         Jan.    2004
                 Second Rank Guanghua Scholarship in Tsinghua University,                        Oct.    2003
                 NOK/MEKTRON scholarship in Tsinghua University,                                 Oct.    2002
             • Awards at NCEPU
                 Outstanding Graduate Student in Beijing ,                                        Jul.   2001
                 Best graduate thesis (top 5%),                                                   Jul.   2001
                 Outstanding undergraduate student in Beijing (3 awardees in NCEPU),              Jan.   2000
                 “New Star in Electricity” (15 awardees in China),                                Oct.   2000
                 China HUADIAN Engineering Corporation Scholarship,                               Sep.   1999
                 Excellent Student Scholarship (one awardee each department),              1998, 1999,   2000