Xing Xie

Current

Guest Ph.D. Advisor at University of Science and Technology of China
Lead Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia

Past

Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
Research Assistant at University of Science and Technology of China

Intern at Microsoft Research Asia
Intern at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Education

University of Science and Technology of China
University of Science and Technology of China

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Computer Software

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Xing Xie’s Summary

Dr. Xing Xie is a lead researcher in the Web Search and Mining Group of Microsoft Research Asia, and a guest Ph.D. advisor in University of Science and Technology of China. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in July 2001, working on spatial data mining, location based services, mobile and pervasive computing. He has served on the organizing and program committees of many international conferences such as WWW, GIS, CIKM, MDM, and IUI. During the past years, he has published over 80 referred journal and conference papers. And he is a senior member of IEEE.

Xing Xie’s Experience

Guest Ph.D. Advisor

University of Science and Technology of China

(Higher Education industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Supervise Ph.D. candidates in department of computer science.
Lead Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Manager: Dr. Wei-Ying Ma
Group: Web Search and Mining

Conduct research on spatial data mining, location based services, mobile and pervasive computing. Served on the organizing and program committees of many international conferences. Published over 70 journal and conference papers. Filed over 40 patent applications. Supervised over 50 visiting students from various universities.
Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

August 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Manager: Dr. Wei-Ying Ma
Group: Web Search and Mining
Associate Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

July 2001 — August 2005 (4 years 2 months)

Manager: Dr. Wei-Ying Ma
Group: Web Search and Mining
Research Assistant

University of Science and Technology of China

(Higher Education industry)

September 1995 — June 2001 (5 years 10 months)

Advisor: Prof. Naijie Gu and Prof. Guoliang Chen
Lab: National High Performance Computing Center (NHPCC)

Conducted research on parallel computing, combinatorial optimization and randomized algorithms. Projects participated in NHPCC include: National 973 Fundamental Research Program “Efficient and practical algorithms for NP-hard problems and its application”; National 863 High-Tech Program “New computing model and scalable parallel algorithm based on massive parallel processors”; Ph.D. Foundation of Department of Education “Realistic computing model and scalability”; and Several National High Performance Computing Foundation Projects.
Intern

Microsoft Research Asia

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — March 2001 (3 months)

Mentor: Dr. Wenyin Liu
Group: Media Search

Conducted research on content filtering for Web search results.
Intern

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

(Government Agency; Research industry)

February 1998 — August 1998 (7 months)

Mentor: Prof. Jiachang Sun
Lab: Research and Development Center for Parallel Software

Conducted research on analyzing and optimizing a linear algebra library on parallel computers. Implemented an automatic parallelization tool for linear algebra libraries.

Xing Xie’s Education

University of Science and Technology of China

Ph. D , Department of Computer Science , 1996 — 2001

Advisor: Prof. Guoliang Chen, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dissertation: “Optimization strategies of randomized algorithms for NP-Hard problems”
University of Science and Technology of China

BS , Special Class for the Gifted Young , 1992 — 1996

Advisor: Prof. Naijie Gu