PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Email: [firstname] [AT] cs.cornell.edu or [firstname] [AT] chenhaot.com
Address: 4121 Upson Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, 14850
I am fortunate to be advised by Lillian Lee.
Committee member:
Jon Kleinberg,
Robert Kleinberg
.
Research Interests: Mostly I am interested in natural language processing and social interaction. Occasionally, I am also interested in machine learning. More broadly, I am interested in computer science in a social context.
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY |
| PhD Student in Computer Science (2010-) |
| TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, Beijing, China |
| B. Eng in Computer Science: July 2010 |
| B. Eng in Economics: July 2010 (Second Major) |
| 2012.5-2012.8 | Hamornizing place scores & instant foodie, Google, Mountain view, CA |
| 2011.5-2011.8 | Personalization based on text comprehensibility, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA |
| 2010.4-2010.7 | Sentiment analysis in Twitter incorporating social networks, MSRA NLP Group, Beijing, China |
| 2009.8-2010.7 | Social Networks and Arnetminer, KEG Group, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 2009.7-2009.9 | Trecvid Competition, in National Institute of Standards and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing China, |
A full publication list is available.
Chenhao Tan, Ed H. Chi, David Huffaker, Gueorgi Kossinets, Alexander J. Smola, Instant Foodie: Predicting Expert Ratings From Grassroots. In Proceedings of 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2013) [PDF]
Daniel M. Romero, Chenhao Tan, Johan Ugander, On the Interplay between Social and Topical Structure. In Proceedings of 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'2013) [PDF] [Slides]
Eunsol Choi, Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jennifer Spindel. Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the GMO debates: A position paper [Link for details]
Chenhao Tan, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Bo Pang. To Each His Own: Personalized Content Selection based on Text Comprehensibility. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'2012) [PDF] [Slides]
Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, Jie Tang, Long Jiang, Ming Zhou, and Ping Li. User-level sentiment analysis incorporating social networks. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'2011). (poster) [PDF]
Shaomei Wu, Chenhao Tan, Jon Kleinberg, Michael Macy. Does Bad News Go Away Faster? In Proceedings of Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'2011) (short paper) [PDF]
Chenhao Tan, Jie Tang, Jimeng Sun, Quan Lin, and Fengjiao Wang. Social Action Tracking via Noise Tolerant Time-varying Factor Graphs. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'2010). pp. 1049-1058. [PDF] [Slides][Data][Video][Link for details (back when I was at Tsinghua)]
| Analysis of Algorithms | Statistical Principles | Theory of Linear Models |
| Advanced Programming Language | Information Networks | Natural Language Processing and Social Interaction |
| Advanced Database Systems | Algorithmic Game Theory | Reasoning about Knwoledge |
| Applied Stochastic Processes |
| 2012 | Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges |
| 2011,2010 | KDD Student Travel Award |
| 2010 | Best Undergraduate Thesis of Tsinghua University (Top 1 among ~160) |
| 2010 | Excellent Undergraduate of Tsinghua University (Top 58 among 3144) |
| 2010 | Excellent Undergraduate of Beijing |
| 2009, 2008 | National Scholarship (Top 3 among ~160) |
I attended CAOSS (Computational and Online Social Science) 2012 in NYC. I wrote a brief summary containing the works covered in the workshop. [PDF]
I gave a survey on machine learning interpretability at MLDG on Aug 15. We had a very nice discussion. Here are the slides. [Slides]