Derek Hao Hu

Department of Computer Sci. and Eng. Mobile: +00852-90607795

Hong Kong University of Sci. and Tech. Office: +00852-23588835
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon E-mail: [email protected]
Hong Kong, China Homepage: http://www.cse.ust.hk/˜derekhh/

Personal Data
- Birth Date: Feb 12th , 1987
- Birth Place: Nanjing, China
- Nationality: Chinese

Research Interest
- Machine Learning: Graphical Model, Conditional Random Field, Hierarchical Dirichlet Process
- Machine Learning Applications: Sensor-Based Activity Recognition
- Web Mining: Understanding the “Activities” of Web users in the Virtual World
- Automated Planning: Action Model Learning
- Bioinformatics: Machine Learning Solutions for Proteomics Problems

Education
- 2007.9 ∼ Present: Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST.
Supervisor: Prof. Qiang Yang.
- 2003.9 ∼ 2007.6: B.Sc., Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University.
Supervisor: Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou.
Thesis: A Self-Adaptive Residual Fitting Ensemble Algorithm (In Chinese).

Work Experience
- 2008.7 ∼ 2009.2: Intern, Machine Learning Group, Microsoft Research Asia.
Research Project: Context-Aware Query Classification.
Mentor: Dr. Jian-Tao Sun.

Journal Publications
1. Evan Wei Xiang, Bin Cao, Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang.
Bridging Domains Using World Wide Knowledge.
In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 22(6):770-783.
2. Qian Xu, Derek Hao Hu, Hong Xue, Weichuan Yu, Qiang Yang.
Semi-supervised Protein Subcellular Localization.
In BMC Bioinformatics, Volume 10 (Suppl 1):S47.

Conference Publications
2010 1. Qian Xu, Derek Hao Hu, Hong Xue, Qiang Yang.
Predicting Chemical Activities From Structures by Attributed Molecular Graph Classification.
To appear in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology(CIBCB 2010).
(Oral Presentation)
2009 1. Bin Cao, Jian-Tao Sun, Evan Wei Xiang, Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen.
PQC: Personalized Query Classification.
In Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM
2009), Hong Kong, Pages 1217-1225.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 123 / 847 = 14.5%)
2. Derek Hao Hu, Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen.
Context-Aware Online Commercial Intention Detection.
In Proceedings of the First Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2009), Nanjing, China,
Pages 134-149.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 27 / 113 = 23.9%)
3. Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang.
Cross-Domain Activity Recognition.
In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009),
Orlando, Florida, USA, Pages 61-70.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 31 / 251 = 12.4%)
4. Huanhuan Cao, Derek Hao Hu, Dou Shen, Daxin Jiang, Jian-Tao Sun, Enhong Chen, Qiang Yang.
Context-aware Query Classification.
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Pages 3-10.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 78 / 494 = 15.8%)
5. Derek Hao Hu, Xian-Xing Zhang, Jie Yin, Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Qiang Yang.
Abnormal Activity Recognition based on HDP-HMM Models.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2009), Pasadena, California, USA, Pages 1715-1720.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 331 / 1290 = 25.7%)
6. Jie Yin, Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang.
Spatio-temporal Event Detection Using Dynamic Conditional Random Fields.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2009), Pasadena, California, USA, Pages 1321-1326.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 331 / 1290 = 25.7%)
7. Hankui Zhuo, Derek Hao Hu, Chad Hogg, Qiang Yang, Hector Munoz-Avila.
Learning HTN Method Preconditions and Action Models from Partial Observations.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2009), Pasadena, California, USA, Pages 1804-1809.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 331 / 1290 = 25.7%)
8. Xian-Xing Zhang, Hua Liu, Yang Gao, Derek Hao Hu.
Detecting abnormal events via Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes. (Best Student Paper Award)
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD 2009), Bangkok, Thailand, Pages 278-289.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 39 / 338 = 11.5%)
9. Qian Xu, Derek Hao Hu, Hong Xue and Qiang Yang.
Semi-supervised Protein Subcellular Localization.
In Proceedings of the Seventh Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2009), Beijing, China,
Pages 537-547.
2008 1. Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang.
CIGAR: Concurrent and Interleaving Goal and Activity Recognition.
In Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008), Chicago, Illinois,
USA, Pages 1363-1368.
(Oral and Poster Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 227 / 937 = 24.2%, Oral and Poster Presentation Rate
= 47 / 937 = 5.0%)
 2. Derek Hao Hu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Nathan Nan Liu, Qiang Yang.
Real World Activity Recognition with Multiple Goals.
In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2008), Seoul,
Korea, Pages 30-40.
(Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate = 42 / 226 = 19.0%)
3. Hankui Zhuo, Qiang Yang, Derek Hao Hu, Lei Li.
Transferring Knowledge from Another Domain for Learning Action Models.
In Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI
2008), Hanoi, Vietnam, Pages 1110-1115.
(Poster Presentation)

Workshop Publications
1. Derek Hao Hu, Evan Wei Xiang, Qiang Yang.
Get More Clicks!
In SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Information Retrieval and Advertising (IRA 2009).
2. Hankz Hankui Zhuo, Derek Hao Hu, Chad Hogg, Qiang Yang, Hector Munoz-Avila.
Learning Model Structures in AI Planning from Partial Observations.
In IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Learning Structural Knowledge from Observations (STRUCK 2009).
3. Yiqiang Chen, Zhuo Sun, Juan Qi, Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang.
LoSeCo: Location-based Search Computing for Pervasive Device Augmentation.
In PerCom 2009 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Devices (PerDev
2009).
4. Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang, Ying Li.
An Algorithm for Analyzing Personalized Online Commercial Intention.
In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Adver-
tising (ADKDD 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Pages 27-36.
5. Sinno Jialin Pan, Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Qiang Yang, Derek Hao Hu.
Transfer Learning for WiFi-based Indoor Localization.
In AAAI 2008 Workshop: Transfer Learning for Complex Tasks.

Teaching
- Fall 2007, Teaching Assistant for COMP221, Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
- Spring 2008, Teaching Assistant for COMP361, Computer Graphics
- Spring 2008, Tutor for Information Technology Enrichment Project Course - Lego Robotics Programming
- Spring 2009, Teaching Assistant for COMP300E, Programming Challenges
- Fall 2009 to Spring 2010, Teaching Assistant Coordinator
- Fall 2009 to Spring 2010, PG Coordinator of HKUST ACM/ICPC Programming Contest Team
- Fall 2009 to Spring 2010, Teaching Assistant for Final Year Project: Lego Robots Guided by WiFi Devices.

Professional Activities
- AAAI Member, ACM Member.
- Program Committee Member for CIKM 2009, IUI 2009.
- Reviewer for JMLR, TKDE, TKDD, IEEE Intelligent Systems, FCSC, JOS, EURASIP Journal.
- External Conference Reviewer for AAAI 2008, ICML 2008, SIGKDD 2008, CIKM 2008∼2009, WSDM
2008∼2009, PAKDD 2008∼2009, ADKDD 2008, UbiComp 2008, ICDE 2009, ICDM 2009, WI 2008∼2009,
WWW 2009, IJCAI 2009, EMNLP 2009, CCIR 2009, AAAI 2010, KDD 2010, UbiComp 2010.
Honors
- Microsoft Research Fellowship, 25 recipients in Asia, the only recipient in HKUST, 2009
- Research Travel Grant, awarded by HKUST, 2009
- IJCAI 2009 Travel Grant Award, 2009
- PAKDD 2009 Best Student Paper Award, 2009
- Research Travel Grant, awarded by HKUST, 2008
- AAAI 2008 Student Scholarship and Travel Award, 2008
- Excellent Graduate of Nanjing University, 2007
- IBM Scholarship for Excellent Students, 2006
- China Computer World Scholarship, the only recipient in Nanjing University, 2005
- Excellent Student of Nanjing University, 2005
- First Grade Scholarship for Competitions, Nanjing University, 2005
- Excellent Member in CYL of Nanjing University, 2004

Awards from competitions

- November 2009, acm/icpc Asia Regional Contest, Seoul Site, The Third Place
- October 2009, acm/icpc Asia Regional Contest, Manila Site, The Fourth Place (As Team Coach)
- October 2009, acm/icpc Asia Regional Contest, Jakarta Site, The Sixth Place
- December 2008, TopCoder China Tournament, The Tenth Place
- April 2008, HKUST Programming Contest Spring 2008, Champion
- November 2007, acm/icpc Asia Regional Contest, Danang Site, The Fourth Place
- November 2007, acm/icpc Asia Regional Contest, Seoul Site, The Fourth Place
- November 2007, TopCoder College Tour, HKUST Site, Champion
- October 2007, HKUST Programming Contest Fall 2007, Champion
- February 2007, International Online Programming Contest, Champion
- February 2007, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Second Prize
- October 2006, acm/icpc Asia Regional Contest, Beijing Site, Second Prize
- July 2006, The Seventh National English Debate Contest for College Students, Second Prize
- July 2006, 2nd Baidu Star Programming Contest Onsite Final, Top 50
- June 2006, 2006 National English Contest for College Students, Special Prize, Highest Honor
- March 2006, International Online Programming Contest, Second Place
- January 2006, Google Code Jam China Onsite Final, The 28th place
- November 2005, acm/icpc Asia Regional Contest, Beijing Site, Second Prize, The Seventh Place
- November 2005, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling, Provincial Second Prize
- June 2005, 2005 National English Contest for College Students, Second Prize
- July 2004, The Fifth National English Speech Contest for College Students, Second Prize
- July 2004, The Fifth National English Debate Contest for College Students, First Prize, Best Debater
- June 2004, 2004 National English Contest for College Students, Special Prize, Highest Honor
Skills
- Languages: Mandarin(native), English(fluent)
- Computer Skills: C, C++, Java, LATEX, MATLAB

RCSfile: cv.tex Date: 2010/04/22