shuochen

Shuo Chen (陈硕)

Ph. D.
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA

Office: 349 Gates Hall
Email: shuochen AT cs DOT cornell  DOT edu

  • About Me
I received my Ph. D. degree in February 2016 in computer science at Cornell University. I am very fortunate to have worked with Prof. Thorsten Joachims on machine learning and related areas. Other members in my Ph. D. committee include Prof. Charles Van Loan and Prof. David Bindel. Currently I am a senior data scientist at Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine, CA.


  • Education
    • Ph. D. (Sep. 2010 - Feb. 2016), Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
    • Master of Science (Sep. 2007 - Jul. 2010), Dept. of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
    • Bachelor of Science (Sep. 2004 - Jul. 2007), Dept. of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

  • Publications
    • Shuo Chen, T. Joachims. Predicting Matchups and Preferences in Context. The 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). San Francisco, CA, USA, Aug. 2016. (Oral, best student paper runner-up) [pdf] [Software and datasets]
    • Shuo Chen. Representation learning for sequence and comparison data. (Thesis) [pdf]
    • Shuo Chen, T. Joachims. Modeling Intransitivity in Matchup and Comparison Data. The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM). San Francisco, Feb. 2016. (Long presentation) [pdf] [Software and datasets]
    • J. L. Moore, Shuo Chen, T. Joachims, D. Turnbull. Taste over Time: The Temporal Dynamics of User Preferences. The 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Curitiba, Brazil, Nov. 2013.
    • Shuo Chen, Jiexun Xu, T. Joachims. Multi-space Probabilistic Sequence Modeling. The 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Chicago, IL, USA, Aug. 2013. (Poster and full paper) [pdf] [Software][Dataset]
    • J. L. Moore, Shuo Chen, T. Joachims, D. Turnbull. Learning to Embed Songs and Tags for Playlist Prediction. The 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Porto, Portugal, Oct. 2012. (Oral) [pdf]
    • J. L. Moore, Shuo Chen, T. Joachims, D. Turnbull. Embedding Songs and Tags for Playlist Prediction. Workshop on Music and Machine Learning (MML) at International Conference on Machine Learning. Edinburgh, Scotland, Jun. 2012. (Extended Abstract) [pdf]
    • Shuo Chen, J. L. Moore, D. Turnbull, T. Joachims. Playlist Prediction via Metric Embedding. The 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Beijing, China, Aug. 2012. (Oral and Poster) [pdf]
The demo, datasets and code for the three publications above can be found here (access from China).
    • Shuo Chen, Jianwen Zhang, Guangyun Chen, Changshui Zhang. What if the Irresponsible Teachers Are Dominating? A Method of Training on Samples and Clustering on Teachers. The Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010. (Oral) [pdf]
    • Bin Liu, Shuo Chen, Mingjie Qian, Changshui Zhang. Sparse Norm-Regularized Reconstructive Coefficients Learning. The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). Maimi, FL, USA, 2009. (Short Paper) [pdf]
    • Guangyun Chen, Gang Chen, Jianwen Zhang, Shuo Chen, Changshui Zhang. Beyond Banditron: A Conservative and Efficient Reduction for Online Multiclass Prediction with Bandit Setting Model. The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). Maimi, FL, USA, 2009. (Oral) [pdf]
    • Shuo Chen, Bin Liu, Mingjie Qian, Changshui Zhang. Kernel K-means Based Framework for Aggregate Outputs Classification. Workshop on Optimization Based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems in the 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. Maimi, FL, USA, 2009. [pdf]
    • Shuo Chen, Bin Liu, Mingjie Qian, Changshui Zhang. Instance- and Bag-Level Manifold Regularization for Aggregate Outputs Classification. The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hongkong, China, 2009. (Short Paper) [pdf]
    • Shuo Chen, Changshui Zhang. Selecting Informative Universum Sample of Semi-Supervised Learning. The Twenty-First International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Pasadena, CA, USA, 2009. (Oral) [pdf]

  • Work Experience
    • Research intern with Dr. Jean-Francois Paiement, AT&T Research Lab, San Francisco, CA, USA, Summer 2012.
    • Predictive analytics intern, Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine, CA, USA, Summer 2013.
    • Relevance science intern, LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA, USA, Summer 2014.
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  • Teaching Experience
    • Co-Instructor of CS1130: Transition to OO Programming, Cornell University, Sprint Semester, 2011.
    • Teaching Assistant of CS4700: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Cornell University, Fall Semester, 2010.
    • Teaching Assistant of 40250182: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Fall Semester, 2009.

  • Honors and Awards
    • WSDM Student Travel Award, Feb. 2016.
    • KDD Student Travel Award, Aug. 2012.
    • Purdue Machine Learning Summer School Student Scholarship, Jun. 2011.
    • Tsinghua Guang Hua Scholarship, 2009.
    • IJCAI Student Travel Grant, 2009.
    • Tsinghua-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Scholarship for Excellent Student, 2008.
    • Friend of Tsinghua-German Scholarship, 2006.

  • Other Stuff
    • I love the classical Chinese novel 《红楼梦》 (Dream of the Red Chamber, a. k. a. The Story of the Stone). I founded a students' association for it with my friends in Tsinghua University.
    • I used to play a sport called shuttlecock a lot. Actually I made the starting setter for the varsity team of Tsinghua University.
    • I love music. I played tremolo harmonica for quite some time when I was a child, as it was one of the very few musical instruments my family could afford at that time.
    • My hometown is the city of Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China. She is a beautiful and peaceful small city in the southwestern China, in which I spent the first 15 years of my life happily.  She was severely damaged in the catastrophic earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 in May 12, 2008. However, this only increased my love for her.