Education

• B.Sc. in School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Expected in June, 2016

  Research Interests: Data Management, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Database and Knowledge Base

Research Intern

• Undergraduate research assistant in ScAi, working with Prof. Wei Wang, in Dept. of Computer Science, UCLA, 07.2015-09.2015

Publications

Querying Data-Driven Taxonomies:

• Learning defining Features for Categories, by Bo Xu, Chenhao Xie, Yi Zhang, Yanghua Xiao, Haixun Wang, Wei Wang, accepted by IJCAI 2016
• Cross-lingual Type Inference, by Bo Xu, Yi Zhang, Jiaqing Liang, Yanghua Xiao, Seung-won Hwang, accepted by DASFAA 2016
• Entity Suggestion by Example using a Conceptual Taxonomy, by Yi Zhang, Yanghua Xiao, Seungwon Hwang, Haixun Wang, X. Sean Wang, Wei Wang(Fudan), Under Submission, 2016
• Long Concept Query on Conceptual Taxonomies, by Yi Zhang, Yanghua Xiao, Seungwon Hwang, Wei Wang(UCLA), Under Submission, 2016
• From Hyperlinks to Semantic Links: A Probabilistic Approach to Explain Hyperlinks in Wikipedia, by Chenhao Xie, Yi Zhang, Yanghua Xiao, Seung-won Hwang, Under Submission, 2016

Improving Knowledge Bases:

• Probase+: Inferring Missing Links in Conceptual Taxonomies, by Jiaqing Liang, Yi Zhang, Yanghua Xiao, Haixun Wang, Wei Wang, Under Submission, 2016
• On the Transitivity of Hypernym-Hyponym Relations in Data-Driven Semantic Networks, by Jiaqing Liang, Yi Zhang, Haixun Wang, Yanghua Xiao, Under Submission, 2016
• Graph-based Web-scale Taxonomy Cleansing, by Jiaqing Liang, Yi Zhang, Yanghua Xiao, Seung-won Hwang, Under Submission, 2016

Patent

• System for Entity Retrieval on Scalable Taxonomies, 2015, Co-apply with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
• System for Entity Recommendation on Scalable Taxonomies, 2015, Co-apply with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd

Funding Experience

• “Exploring Diversifying Top-k Results with Knowledge Bases”, WangDao Program(Fudan’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program)

Prizes and Honors

• The Second Prize Scholarship of Fudan University, 2015
• Honorable Mention in Mathematical Contest In Modeling, 2015
• The Third Prize in the competition of Microsoft Student Partners, 2014
• The Third Prize in Shanghai High School Student Science and Technology Innovation Fair, 2014
• The Third Prize in Mobile Finance Originality Competition for Undergraduate, 2013
• The prize of Excellent Student Leader of Fudan University (The only one of Fudan College), 2013
• The Second Prize Scholarship of Fudan University, 2013
• The Third Prize in Shanghai Contest District in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2013

Other Experience

• Technical Consultant for Shanghai Zhi Zhen Internet Technology Co. Ltd (Xiao I Robot)
• Founder of H'ours Cafe, Fudan University
• Founder and the First President of RenZhong Student Union of Fudan College