Biography

Chu-Cheng Hsieh is currently a PhD student in Computer Science department of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), starting from 2007 Fall. Moreover, he is supervised by Professor John Cho. Before joining UCLA, he was enrolled in PhD program in Computer Science department of National Chia Tung University, Taiwan, between 2005~2007. Also, he got a M.S degree and a B.A. degree in Electronic Engineering department from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2005 and 2001 respectively. With respect to his working experience, before entering UCLA, he was an researcher in Telecommunication Laboratories of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd, Taiwan, and served as a lecturer in mutilple universities in Taiwan. His current research interests include data mining, information retrieval, text mining, and social networks.

Research

  • Query by examples (a study of Wikipedia categories) 2009.05 ~ Present
  • Product name extraction using data mining algorithm 2008.07 ~ Present
  • Hierarchical extraction from text dataset 2008.05 ~ 2008.07
  • Opinion explorer from Blogs 2008.01 ~ 2008.04
  • Characteristic of Relation on Web Social Network (Facebook) 2007.10 ~ 2008.01
(to be continue)

Publication

Experience

    Industrial:
  • Research Internship on Search Team, Yahoo (2008 Summer, 2009 Summer)
  • Founder & Senior IT Specialist (System Integration), XinWei Corporation, Taiwan (2004)
  • Assistant Researcher, Information Security Lab., Chunghwa Telecom (2005-2007)
    Academic:
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles (Sep. 2008 ~ Present)
  • Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles (Jan. 2008 ~ Present)
  • Lecturer, National Taipei College of Business, Taiwan(Sep. 2006 ~ Jun. 2007)
  • Lecturer, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Sep. 2005 ~ Jun. 2007)
  • Lecturer, Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan (Sep. 2005 – Jun. 2007)
  • Senior Instructor , Microsoft CTEC Education Center (Great Master Co., Ltd. , Taiwan) (May. 1999 ~ Sep. 2005 )
    Certifications:
  • Microsoft Certified Professional (VB & C# Programming Language)
  • Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform
  • CIW Security Professional
  • CIW Security Associate
  • TQC Professional in database
  • TQC Professional in Programming Language
  • Certification of IT Lieutenant on Programming & Information System

Activities

Awards

  • Taipei Parliament Scholarship Feb. 2005 O2Micro (NASDAQ: OIIM) Academic Scholarship (Sep. 2004 )
  • The Best Obligatory Lieutenant (Jun. 2003)
  • President Award to an honor student, Twice (1999’, 2001’ )
  • The Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2nd / 104) (Jun. 2001)
  • Outstanding Student of Taipei Scholarship Award (1st in department) (Jun. 1998)

Contact

  • Email: chucheng's email
  • Office: Boelter Hall 4802, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
  • Office Hour: drop by anytime, also by appointment.

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