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Cong Yu Research Scientist Yahoo! Research 111 W 40th Street 17th Floor New York, NY 10018 Fax: 212-571-8220 |
Recent News: + August, Lyon, France: VLDB + April, Madrid, Spain: WWW (co-chairing DevTrack) + March, Shanghai, China: ICDE (Panel) and M3SN (Keynote) |
Brief Introduction:
Currently, my main research interests are scalable social information management, information discovery and exploration on social content sites, information extraction management and database usability.
I joined the Community Systems Group at Yahoo! Research New York, in July 2007. I have been mainly involved in two projects: Purple SOX and Royal Jelly. In the context of Royal Jelly, my colleagues and I have built a prototype del.icio.us recommendation system Garcon. My Yahoo! Research official profile is here.
I graduated from the Database Group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering. My advisor is Prof. H. V. Jagadish.
I am a devoted Michigan Wolverines fan. I have followed every single game since the Michigan-OSU game in the 2003 season (even after the move to NYC, thanks to the Big Ten Network), including dreadful 2008 season. I subscribe to New Yorker, Economist, Sports Illustrated, and read columns in New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Selected Publications: [back to top]
For a more complete list of publications, please visit DBLP, thanks to Michael Ley.
| Social Data Management and Social Content Exploration | |
| # | Zeinab Abbassi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks Lakshmanan, Sergei Vassilvitskii, and Cong Yu. Getting Recommender Systems to Think Outside the Box. In RecSys (short paper), New York, NY, 2009. [paper] |
| # | Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu-Roy, Ashish Chawla, Gautam Das, and Cong Yu. Group Recommendation: Semantics and Efficiency. In VLDB, Lyon, France, 2009. [paper] |
| # | Sihem Amer-Yahia, Jian Huang, and Cong Yu. Building Community-Centric Information Exploration Applications on Social Content Sites. In SIGMOD (industrial), Providence, RI, 2009. [paper] |
| # | Cong Yu, Laks Lakshmanan, and Sihem Amer-Yahia. It Takes Variety to Make a World: Diversification in Recommender Systems. In EDBT, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2009. [paper] |
| # | Cong Yu, Laks Lakshmanan, and Sihem Amer-Yahia. Recommendation Diversification Using Explanations. In ICDE (short paper), Shanghai, China, 2009. [paper] |
| # | Sihem Amer-Yahia, Jian Huang, and Cong Yu. Jelly: A Language for Building Community-Centric Information Exploration Applications In ICDE (invited keynote for M3SN workshop), Shanghai, China, 2009. [paper] |
| # | Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks Lakshmanan and Cong Yu. SocialScope: Enabling Information Discovery on Social Content Sites. In CIDR (perspective), Asilomar, CA, 2009. [paper] (selected for Panel discussion) overview paper |
| # | Julia Stoyanovich, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Cameron Marlow and Cong Yu. A Study of the Benefit of Leveraging Tagging Behavior to Model Users' Interests in del.icio.us. AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, Stanford University, CA, 2008. [paper] |
Information Extraction Management | |
| # | Philip Bohannon, Srujana Merugu, Cong Yu, Vipul Agarwal, Pedro DeRose, Arun Iyer, Ankur Jain, Vinay Kakade, Mridul Muralidharan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Warren Shen. Purple SOX Extraction Management System. SIGMOD Record, 37(4):21-27, 2008. [paper] |
Database Usability | |
| # | Cong Yu. Managing Complex Databases in a Schema Management Framework. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2007. [ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, 2008] [link] |
| # | Cong Yu and H. V. Jagadish. Querying Complex Structured Databases. In VLDB, Vienna, Austria, 2007. [paper] |
| # | H. V. Jagadish, Adriane Chapman, Aaron Elkiss, Magesh Jayapandian, Yunyao Li, Arnab Nandi and Cong Yu. Making Database Systems Usable. In SIGMOD, Beijing, China. 2007. [paper] overview paper |
| # | Cong Yu and H. V. Jagadish. Schema Summarization. In VLDB, Seoul, Korea. 2006. [paper] |
| # | Cong Yu and H. V. Jagadish. Efficient Discovery of XML Data Redundancies. In VLDB, Seoul, Korea. 2006. [paper] [extended version in The VLDB Journal, Best of VLDB 2006 Special Issue, 2007] |
| # | Yunyao Li, Cong Yu and H. V Jagadish. Schema-Free XQuery. In VLDB, Toronto, Canada. 2004. [paper] [extended version in The VLDB Journal, 2006] |
| # | Shurug Al-Khalifa, Cong Yu and H. V. Jagadish. Querying Structured Text in an XML Database. In SIGMOD, San Diego, CA. 2003. [paper] |
Data Integration | |
| # | Xin Dong, Alon Halevy and Cong Yu. Data Integration with Uncertainty. In VLDB, Vienna, Austria, 2007. [paper] [extended version in The VLDB Journal, 2008] |
| # | Jayant Madhavan, Shawn Jeffery, Shirley Cohen, Xin Dong, David Ko, Cong Yu and Alon Halevy. Web-scale Data Integration: You Can Only Afford to Pay As You Go. In CIDR, Asilomar, CA. 2007. [paper] |
| # | Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy, Shirley Cohen, Xin Luna Dong, Shawn R. Jeffery, David Ko and Cong Yu. Structured Data Meets the Web: A Few Observations. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 2006. [paper] |
| # | Cong Yu and Lucian Popa. Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve. In VLDB, Trondheim, Norway. 2005. [paper] |
| # | Cong Yu and Lucian Popa. Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration. In SIGMOD, Paris, France. 2004. [paper] |
Biology Applications | |
| # | Magesh Jayapandian, Adriane Chapman, V. Glenn Tarcea, Cong Yu, Aaron Elkiss, Angela Ianni, Bin Liu, Arnab Nandi, Carlos Santos, Philip Andrews, Brian Athey, David States and H. V. Jagadish. Michigan Molecular Interactions (MiMI): Putting the Jigsaw Puzzle Together. Nucleic Acids Research 35:D566-71. 2007. [paper] |
Professional: [back to top]
Program Committee:
AAAI 2010, VLDB 2010, WWW 2010, ICDE 2010, CIKM 2009, VLDB 2009, WWW 2009 (Developers Track Co-Chair), SSDBM 2009, CIKM 2008
Personal: [back to top]
Places: Shanghai, Ann Arbor, New York City.
Social: Flickr, Del.icio.us
Community: [ Wiki; Gutenberg ]
Finance: [ MyFICO; FreeReport ]
Travel: [ Mobissimo; SideStep; Orbitz; Kayak; Opodo ]
Links: [ Ronglai ]