Resume of

Ka Cheung Sia, Richard (kcsia@cs.ucla.edu, http://oak.cs.ucla.edu/~sia)
11140 Rose Ave. APT 103, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Cell: 310-948-2935
Work: 310-206-4722

Interest:
A full-time position in research, design, and development in web data management and mining.

Education:
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D in Computer Science, September 2003 - Present, GPA: 3.85
Expected graduation: 2008 Summer
Advisor: Professor Junghoo Cho

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
MPhil. in Computer Science, July 2003
Thesis: Content-Based Image Retrieval: Theory and Implementation

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
B.Eng. in Information Engineering, July 2001
Final Year Project: Implementation of a Push-based Video-on-Demand Server and Client Prototype.


Research and Work Experience:

Research Summer Intern
NEC Labs America, Cupertino, CA, June 2007 - September 2007
Research, design, and implementation of a personalized meme tracking engine for blog data;
implementation of a customer opinion extraction system; participated in the implementation of a blog
visualization tool.
Supervisor: Belle L. Tseng (belle@sv.nec-labs.com)

Research Summer Intern
NEC Labs America, Cupertino, CA, June 2006 - September 2006
Research, design and implementation of a Firefox plugin personal information manager prototype; 
research problems on RSS feeds monitoring, user interest identificationa and adaptation. 
Implementation of a blog spam annotation tools.
Supervisor: Belle L. Tseng (belle@sv.nec-labs.com)

Graduate Student Researcher
Blogocenter Project - UCLA, July 2004 - June 2006
Working on several research areas including: Weblog parser; Web data collection and analysis 
(particularly in News and Weblogs); Analysis of collected weblog data on areas related to 
information propagation, communities detection, and crawl scheduling; Efficient MIN/MAX query 
answering in sensors network.
Advisor: Prof. Junghoo Cho (cho@cs.ucla.edu)

Summer Intern
Research Informatics - Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, June 2005 - September 2005
Particiipated in several projects including: Evaluation of PACS systems; Forecasting of patient
enrollment in clinical trials; Bio-informatics studies related to bone-remodeling process; Development
of J2EE Web application facilitating research report handling.
Reference: Dr. Kailash Swarna (kswarna@amgen.com)

Graduate Student Researcher
Multimedia Information Processing Lab - CUHK, May 2002 - August 2003
Research, design and implementation of the project DISCOVIR (DIStributed COntent-based Visual
Information Retrieval). This open source project adds the capability of efficient content-based
image query over the Gnutella P2P network. (http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~miplab/discovir)
Advisor: Professor Irwin King (king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk)


Qualification:
MCP, MCP+I, MCSE, SCJP

Skills:
C/C++, Java, Matlab, Python, UNIX shell scripting, DB2, MySQL, Latex

Honors and Awards:
Graduation with 1st class honor from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
2nd place in UCSD Data mining competition in 2006 and 2007 (http://mill.ucsd.edu)

Publications:
"Efficient Monitoring Algorithm for Fast News Alert", with Junghoo Cho and Hyun-Kyu Cho, 
in IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol 19, no 7, pp. 950-961, July 2007.

"RSS Feeds Monitoring Driven by User Browsing Pattern", with Junghoo Cho, Koji Hino, Yun Chi, 
Shenghuo Zhu, and Belle L. Tseng, in Proc. of the Internation Conference on Weblog and Social Media, 2007

"Capturing User Interests by Both Exploitation and Exploration", with Shenghuo Zhu, Yun Chi, Koji Hino, 
and Belle L. Tseng, in Proc. of the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, 2007

"The Splog Detection Task and A Solution Based on Temporal and Link Properties", with Yu-Ru Lin,
Wen-Yen Chen, Xiaolin Shi, Xiaodan Song, Yun Chi, Koji Hino, Hari Sundaram, Jun Tatemuran, and Belle L. Tseng,
in Proc. of the 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), 2006.

"Cost-Efficient Processing of MIN/MAX Queries over Distributed Sensors with Uncertainty", with
Zhengyu Liu and Junghoo Cho, in Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005)

"Distributed Content-Based Visual Information Retrieval on Peer-to-Peer Networks", with
Irwin King and Cheuk Hang Ng, in ACM Transaction of Information Systems, Vol 22, Issue 3, July 2004, p477-501

"Relevance Feedback Based on Parameter Estimation of Target Distribution", with
Irwin King, in Proceedings of World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2002

Professional Activities:

External reviewer of the SIGMOD conference 2006, 2007; VLDB conference 2005; the WWW conference 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007; the CIKM conference 2004, the WebDB workshop 2004

References:
Professor Junghoo Cho, cho@cs.ucla.edu
Department of Computer Science, UCLA

Professor Carlo Zaniolo, zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu
Department of Computer Science, UCLA

Dr. Belle L. Tseng, belle@sv.nec-labs.com
Information Analysis & Management group, NEC Labs Amercia