Belle Tseng

Current

• Senior Manager at Yahoo Inc

Past

• Senior Research Staff Member at NEC Labs America
• Research Staff Member at IBM Watson Research Center
• Chief Scientist at Start-Up

• Associate Research Staff at AT&T Bell Labs

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Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Belle Tseng’s Summary

15 years of Research & Development experience in information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, and social network analysis at NEC, IBM, and AT&T.

Social Information Mining Projects include:
Blog Analysis and Mining Research
Personalized Search and Recommendation
TREC Blog Spam Detection Benchmark
Adaptive User Modeling for Expertise Finder

Multimedia Projects include:
Middleware for Summarization, Personalization, and Adaptation
TREC Video Retrieval Benchmark
Real-Time Video Traffic Surveillance
MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation
MPEG-7 Video Annotation Tool
MPEG-7 Descriptors for Electronic Whiteboard
MPEG-4 Authoring Tool and Playback Application
MPEG-2 Compatible Video Coding of Stereoscopic Videos

Belle Tseng’s Experience

• Senior Manager

  Yahoo Inc

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  [Web Search Relevance] Lead the Universal Machine Learned Ranking (UMLR) team of researchers with strong background in information retrieval and machine learning to improve the search relevance of Yahoo search engines across the world.

• Senior Research Staff Member

  NEC Labs America

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 9 months)

• Research Staff Member

  IBM Watson Research Center

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1997 — December 2003 (6 years 6 months)

• Chief Scientist

  Start-Up

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1996 — June 1997 (1 year 3 months)

• Associate Research Staff

  AT&T Bell Labs

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1989 — January 1992 (2 years 8 months)

Belle Tseng’s Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  PhD , Electrical Engineering , 1992 — 1996

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MS , Electrical Engineering , 1991 — 1992

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  BS , Mathematics , 1987 — 1991

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  BS , Electrical Engineering , 1987 — 1991

Additional Information

Belle Tseng’s Honors:

NEC Technology Commercialization Award
IBM Invention Achievement Awards
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship