Zhigang Hua

Current

• Applied Research at Yahoo! Labs - Search Science

Past

• R&D Engineer at Yahoo! Search
• Research Intern at IBM Research Almaden
• Visiting Student at Microsoft Research Asia

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Education

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Industry

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Zhigang Hua’s Summary

Zhigang Hua (華志剛)

With industrial R&D experience in Web Search and development.

Zhigang Hua’s Specialties:

Web search, Search engine, Information retrieval, Machine learning, Data mining, Classification, Multimedia, Mobile computing.

Programming: C/C++, Java, C#, Perl, Shell, Javascript, Windows/Unix, Web/Network development.

8+ years of software programming, 2 patents, 10+ publications.

Zhigang Hua’s Experience

• Applied Research

  Yahoo! Labs - Search Science

  (Internet industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

  Web search, Content understanding, Machine learning

• R&D Engineer

  Yahoo! Search

  (Internet industry)

  2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

  Worked on web search, content classification, spam classifier, feature extraction, machining learning.

• Research Intern

  IBM Research Almaden

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

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  Project: Web 2.0 authoring and customization for mobile devices.
  
  US Patent: “Browser-based proxy server for customization and distribution of existing applications”.

• Visiting Student

  Microsoft Research Asia

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

  Projects: Web content structure analysis, Web image data mining, User interface and algorithmic support for web search & navigation, Web personalization.
  
  US Patent: "Method and system for caching and adapting dynamic display pages for small display devices”.

Zhigang Hua’s Education

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  BS , Computer Science , 1998 — 2002

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  PhD student, with MS , Computer Science

  Teaching assistants: Machine learning (grad level), Database systems (undergrad level).

• Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  MS , Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems

  MS thesis project: Multimedia contents (including web page, image, video) analysis and adaptation for mobile computing.

Additional Information

Zhigang Hua’s Groups:

Georgia Tech 7001, InfoVis Seminar, UbiComp, CS8803 Course, Web 3.0 @ Mountain View, Web 3.0 @ Mountain View

•    Computing Alumni Organization, Georgia Tech
•    Georgia Tech Alumni Network
•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Invest in China
•    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Microsoft Alumni (& Employees)
•    HYSTA (Hua Yuan Science & Technology Association)
•    Search Engine Professionals

Zhigang Hua’s Honors:

Chinese Academy of Sciences Presidential Fellowship.
Chinese Academy of Sciences Excellent Graduate Graduation.
“Browser-based proxy server for customization and distribution of existing applications”. US patent.
“Method and system for caching and adapting dynamic display pages for small display devices”. US Patent.

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