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Currently pursuing Masters in Computer Science at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Yanchun Zhang and Dr. Jing He. Current research interests include Context-aware Recommendation, Heterogeneous Social Network Mining and Deep Learning. Prior to that, I got my Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science and Bachelor's degree in Advertising from Xiamen University, both in 2012.
Education
Education
2012~2015 (expected), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Master of Engineering in Computer Science
2014~2015, Victoria University, Australia
Visiting student
2008~2012, Xiamen University, China
Bachelor of Engineering in Cognitive Science
2009~2012, Xiamen University, China
Bachelor of Arts in Advertising
Publications
Publications
Weilong Yao, Jing He, Hua Wang, Yanchun Zhang, Jie Cao: Collaborative Topic Ranking: Leveraging Item Meta-data for Sparsity Reduction. In Proc. of AAAI2015. Austin, America (oral, 11.95%).
Weilong Yao, Jing He, Guangyan Huang, Jie Cao, Yanchun Zhang: A Graph-based model for context-aware recommendation using implicit feedback data. To appear in WWWJ (IF=1.612).
Weilong Yao, Jing He, Guangyan Huang, Yanchun Zhang: Modelling Dual Role Preferences for Trust-aware Recommendation. In Proc. of SIGIR2014,.Goal Coast, Australia (short paper).
Weilong Yao, Jing He, Guangyan Huang, Yanchun Zhang: SoRank: Incorporating Social Relations into Learning to Rank Models for Recommendation. In Proc. of WWW2014. Seoul, Korea (poster).
Weilong Yao, Jing He, Guangyan Huang, Jie Cao, Yanchun Zhang: Personalized Recommendation on Multi-Layer Context Graph. In Proc. of WISE2013. Nanjing, China (Best Student Paper Award).
Honors and Awards
Honors and Awards
National Scholarship of China, 2014
WISE'2013 Best Student Paper Award, 2013
AAAI2015 Travel Scholarship, 2015
SIGIR2014 Travel Grant, 2014
Second Prize of National Intelligent Design Competition for College Students, 2012
Innovation Scholarship, Xiamen University, 2012
Dean's honor, Xiamen University, 2012
Wu Xuangong Scholarship, Xiamen University, 2012
Jin Zaofen Scholarship, Xiamen University, 2011
Merit Student, 2010~2013
Contract
Contract
E-mail: yaoweilong12 at mails dot ucas dot ac dot cn