Xinlong Bao

Current

• Software Engineer at Google

Past

• Research Assistant at Oregon State University
• Research Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Education

• Oregon State University
• University of Science and Technology of China

Recommended

2 people have recommended Xinlong

Connections

65 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Xinlong Bao’s Summary

I want to make computers smart. My goal is to create softwares that help users better perform their tasks on the computers: easy-to-use interfaces, intelligent recommendations, automatic actions and even some surprises.

I have been working on various projects on Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Intelligent User Interface and Computer Security in the past nine years.

My greatest strengths are enthusiasm on turning research ideas into real-world applications, excellent problem-solving skills and teamwork.

Xinlong Bao’s Specialties:

Proficient in C#, Java, C++ and C with extensive development experiences in team projects.
Java/C# database interfaces using MySQL, SQLite and DB2.
Other languages and tools include OpenGL, XML, HTML, Javascript, R, Matlab, Weka, COM, Lucene, Windows/Linux.
Extensive development experiences in implementing plug-ins and instrumentations for MS Office Suite (VBA, COM add-in), MS IE and Windows OS.
Solid background in Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, and User Interface Design.

Xinlong Bao’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Research Assistant

  Oregon State University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2004 — August 2009 (5 years )

  I'm working on various projects that involve building intelligent information systems. Some of the works I have done at OSU: instrumenting users' desktop activities; predicting the folder that the user will access next; integrating learning and reasoning through Markov logic; transfer learning.

• Research Intern

  IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)

  I spent the summer of 2008 at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Hawthorne, NY as a research intern. My project is entitled "STREAM" (STacking Recommendation Engines with Additional Meta-features), which is a framework for better combining recommendation engines. Our paper won the Best Applied Paper award at ACM RecSys09.

Xinlong Bao’s Education

• Oregon State University

  Ph.D , Computer Science , 2004 — 2009

  Thesis Topic: Applying Machine Learning on Prediction, Recommendation and Integration

• University of Science and Technology of China

  B.S., M.E. , Computer Science , 1997 — 2004

Additional Information

Xinlong Bao’s Websites:

• My Website

Xinlong Bao’s Interests:

Soccer is my favorite.

Xinlong Bao’s Groups:

•    University of Science and Technology of China Alumni Association
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    IBM Research

Xinlong Bao’s Honors:

Best Applied Paper award at ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2009
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Technology Advance Award, Anhui Province, China, 2003

Xinlong Bao’s Contact Settings

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