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	Address:	Department of Computer Science and Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
	Office: Room 4215, Lift 19/20
	Office Phone: (+852) 2358-7029
	Email: $Description: Description: C:\Users\t-wzheng\Desktop\email.jpg$

Biography

2006.9~present PhD candidate in Computer Science, HKUST, with supervisor Prof. Qiang Yang.
2010.8~2010.11 Intern in Microsoft Advertising (US).
2009.7~2009.12 Intern in Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).
2002.9~2006.7 Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Research Interests

Sensor Data Mining: human behaviors understanding, from location estimation to user activity and profile recognition, etc.
Web Data Mining: collaborative filtering, recommendation system, social network, etc.
Bioinformatices: siRNA efficacy prediction, compound efficacy prediction, etc.

Publication

Conference:

User-dependent Aspect Model for Collaborative Activity Recognition.
Vincent W. Zheng, and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11). Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. July 16-22, 2011.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
Collaborative Filtering Meets Mobile Recommendation: A User-centered Approach.
Vincent W. Zheng, Bin Cao, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10). Atlanta, Georgia, USA. July 11-15, 2010.
[Paper] [Data] [Code] [Bibtex]
Collaborative Location and Activity Recommendations with GPS History Data.
Vincent W. Zheng, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-10). Raleigh, NC, USA, April 26-30, 2010.
[Paper] [Slide] [Bibtex]
Indoor Localization in Multi-Floor Environments with Reduced Effort.
Huayan Wang, Vincent W. Zheng, Junhui Zhao and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom-10), Mannheim, Germany, March 30-April 2, 2010.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
Cross-Domain Activity Recognition.
Vincent W. Zheng, Derek H. Hu and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 11th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp-09), pages 61-70. Orlando, Florida, USA, Sept.30-Oct.3, 2009.
[Paper] [Slide] [Bibtex]
Abnormal Activity Recognition based on HDP-HMM Models.
Derek H. Hu, Xian-Xing Zhang, Jie Yin, Vincent W. Zheng and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), pages 1715-1720, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 11-17, 2009.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
Real World Activity Recognition with Multiple Goals.
Derek H. Hu, Sinno J. Pan, Vincent W. Zheng, Nathan N. Liu and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 10th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp-08), pages 30-39, Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 2008.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
Transferring Localization Models Over Time.
Vincent W. Zheng, Evan W. Xiang, Qiang Yang and Dou Shen.
In Proc. of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), pages 1421-1426, Chicago, Illinois, USA. July 2008.
[Paper] [Data&Code] [Slide] [Bibtex]
Transferring Multi-device Localization Models using Latent Multi-task Learning.
Vincent W. Zheng, Sinno J. Pan, Qiang Yang and Jeffrey J. Pan.
In Proc. of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), pages 1427-1432, Chicago, Illinois, USA. July 2008.
[Paper] [Data&Code] [Slide] [Bibtex]
Domain-Constrained Semi-Supervised Mining of Tracking Models in Sensor Networks.
Rong Pan, Junhui Zhao, Vincent W. Zheng, Jeffrey J. Pan, Dou Shen, Sinno J. Pan and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-07), pages 1023-1027, San Jose, CA, USA, Aug 12-15, 2007. [Industrial paper]
[Paper] [Bibtex]
A Joint Power Control, Link Scheduling and Rate Control Algorithm for Wireless Ad hoc Networks.
Vincent W. Zheng, Xinming Zhang, Daoke Liu and Dan Keun Sung.
In Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications Networking Conference (WCNC-07), pages 3636-3640, Hong Kong, March. 2007.
[Paper] [Slide] [Bibtex]

Journal:

Cross-domain activity recognition via transfer learning.
Derek H. Hu, Vincent W. Zheng and Qiang Yang.
To appear in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2011.
[Paper]
Multi-task learning for cross-platform siRNA efficacy prediction: an in-silico study.
Qi Liu, Qian Xu, Vincent W. Zheng, Hong Xue, Zhiwei Cao and Qiang Yang.
In BMC Bioinformatics, 11:181, 2010.
[Paper]
Estimating Location Using Wi-Fi.
Qiang Yang, Sinno J. Pan and Vincent W. Zheng.
In IEEE Intelligent Systems, volume 23, no.1, pages 8-13, Jan/Feb, 2008.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
Joint Multicast Routing Protocol Based on Traffic Prediction for Mobile Ad hoc Networks.
Guozheng Gan, Xinming Zhang, Qiong Liu and Wenchen Zheng.
In Computer Engineering (Chinese), vol.33, August 2007.
Advanced Information Feedback in Intelligent Traffic Systems.
Wenxu Wang, Binghong Wang, Wenchen Zheng, Chuanyang Yin, and Tao Zhou.
In Physical Review E., Journal of the American Physical Society, vol.72, page 066702, Dec. 2005.

Workshop:

Joint Learning User's Activities and Profiles from GPS Data.
Vincent W. Zheng, Yu Zheng and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of ACM GIS Workshop on Location-based Social Networking Services, pages 17-20, Seattle, USA, Nov. 2009.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
HIPS: A Calibration-less Hybrid Indoor Positioning System Using Heterogeneous Sensors.
Vincent W. Zheng, Junhui Zhao, Yongcai Wang and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of IEEE PerCom-09 Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Devices, pages 1-6, Galveston, Texas, USA, March 2009.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
Transfer Learning for WiFi-based Indoor Localization.
Sinno J. Pan, Vincent W. Zheng, Qiang Yang and Derek H. Hu.
In Proc. of AAAI-08 Workshop on Transfer Learning for Complex Task. Chicago, Illinois, USA. July 2008.
[Paper] [Bibtex]
Digital Wall: A Power-efficient Solution for Location-based Data Sharing.
Jeffrey J. Pan, Sinno J. Pan, Vincent W. Zheng and Qiang Yang.
In Proc. of IEEE PerCom-08 Workshop on Power-Aware Pervasive Devices, pages 645-650, Hong Kong, March 2008.
[Bibtex]

Book Chapter:

Transfer Learning and Its Application for WiFi Localization Problems.
Sinno J. Pan, Vincent W. Zheng and Qiang Yang.
In Machine Learning and Applications. Zhi-Hua Zhou and Jue Wang (eds.), Chapter 3, Tsinghua University Press, 2009.

Demos

Phone-based Activity Recognition and Profiling for Health Monitoring
Campus-scale Location and Activity Recognition in WiFi Environment
IceBreaker: Location-based Social Network in Outdoor Environment (with Final Year Project students, 2008-2009)
NeverLost: Real-Time User Tracking and Distance Alarming (with Final Year Project students, 2007-2008)

Datasets, Codes and Software

Professional Activities

Program Committee:

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2010
The 1st IEEE ICDM Data Mining (ICDM) Contest, 2007

Reviewer:

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2008
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2008, 2010
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2009
ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), 2008
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2010, 2011
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2010
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2008, 2009, 2010
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2009
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2009
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2008
Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), 2008
Annual International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD), 2008
IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), 2008
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2009
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, 2009
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2010
Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 2010
Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML), 2010

Teaching Assistant

Final Year Project, 2010-2011: gPhone-based Activity Recommendation from GPS Data.
Final Year Project, 2008-2009: Intelligent Location-based Services in WiFi Environment.
Final Year Project, 2007-2008: Artificial Intelligence and Location Based Services. (Awarded as Best FYP of Year 07-08)
COMP 271, Fall 2007: Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
COMP 104, Spring 2007: Programming Fundamentals and Methodology.
COMP 221, Fall 2006: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence.

Useful Links

A list of Conference Deadlines
I am also running the Movie Club at HKUST.