Fan Guo

Current

• Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University

Past

• Analytics Intern at LinkedIn
• Research Intern at Microsoft
• Intern at Yahoo!

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Tsinghua University

Connections

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Industry

Higher Education

Fan Guo’s Summary

Ph.D. Student. Research area: data mining and machine learning.

Fan Guo’s Specialties:

data mining and statistical modeling in web search, bioinformatics, etc.

Fan Guo’s Experience

• Ph.D. Student

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  Graduate Assistant in Data Mining and Machine Learning
  Current and past research projects:
  * Feature extraction and graph-based mining of 2D and 3D fruit fly embryo images;
  * Modeling and analysis of web search user interaction and click log;
  * Model-based reconstruction of temporally evolving network topologies;
  * A switching Kalman filter model for the analysis of biological data from array CGH experiments;
  * A Bayesian statistical model for multimedia information retrieval.

• Analytics Intern

  LinkedIn

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2009 — August 2009 (3 months)

  Dashboarding and modeling for talent match, the LinkedIn proprietary product to make automatic recommendation of qualified job candidates, to summarize and monitor key performance metrics regularly, and leverage user feedback to help improve the recommendation.

• Research Intern

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

  Research Intern at Search Quality & Cyber-Intelligence Lab under Internet Services Research Center - Redmond. Statistical modeling and algorithm design for analyzing click log data to infer user perceived relevance of web documents and evaluate search engine performance. Intern projects led to three published conference papers on:
  (i) dependent click model (WSDM'09);
  (ii) click chain model (WWW'09);
  (iii) Bayesian browsing model (KDD'09).

• Intern

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  Intern at Data Mining and Research Group. Algorithm design for extracting topics from keyword sets created by advertiser bids, generating quality scores as a ranking feature, and providing automatic feedback to improve low quality ads.

Fan Guo’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2005 — 2011 (expected)

  Advisor: Christos Faloutsos
  M.S. in Computer Science, May 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Chinese Student and Scholar Association (President 2006-07)

• Tsinghua University

  B. Eng. , Computer Science and Technology , 2001 — 2005

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