====== Chao Zhou (周 超) ======

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Ph.D. Student (Aug.2008 ~ )\\
[[http://www.acm.org/|ACM Student Member]], [[http://www.ieee.org/|IEEE Student Member]]
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[[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk|Department of Computer Science & Engineering]]\\
[[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk|The Chinese University of Hong Kong]]\\
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==== About ====

Mr. **Tom Chao Zhou** is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/|Prof. Irwin King]] and [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~lyu/|Prof. Michael R. Lyu]], in the [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk|Department of Computer Science & Engineering]] of [[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk|The Chinese University of Hong Kong]].\\ 

==== Contact Information ====

Rm 114A, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, \\
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, \\
CUHK, N.T., Hong Kong\\
Email: <czhou@cse.cuhk.edu.hk>\\
Office: +(852) 3163 4266\\
Homepage: www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~czhou\\


==== Biography ====


Mr. **Tom Chao Zhou** is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/|Prof. Irwin King]] and [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~lyu/|Prof. Michael R. Lyu]], in the [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk|Department of Computer Science & Engineering]] of [[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk|The Chinese University of Hong Kong]].\\ 
He received his Bachelor’s degree in [[http://www.cs.zju.edu.cn|College of Computer Science]] majoring in Computer Science & Technology from [[http://www.zju.edu.cn|Zhejiang University]] in 2008. In his undergraduate study, he joined [[http://eagle.zju.edu.cn|Innovative Software Technology Development Center]] ([[http://eagle.zju.edu.cn|EAGLE-Lab]]) of [[http://www.zju.edu.cn|Zhejiang University]], when he was under the supervision of Prof. Chun Chen.


==== Research Interests ====
  * Information Retrieval
  * Machine Learning 
  * Social Tagging
  * Recommender System
  * Question and Answering (QA)
  * Social Network Analysis
  * Data Mining   
  * Opinion Mining
  
  
  

 

See research resources at [[http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~czhou/doku.php?id=research|Research]]

==== Publications ====
 

See my publications' page [[http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~czhou/doku.php?id=publications|Publications]]


==== Professional Activities ====

  * The 3rd Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum, "SOPING: A Chinese Customer Review Mining System" (An extension work of my SIGIR 2008 paper), **Best Paper Award**, 2008.

  * ACM Student Member, since 2008.

  * IEEE Student Member, since 2009

=== Program Committee ===
  * The 4th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum 2009([[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PHDForum/2009/start|2009]])


=== Reviewer ===
  * The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning([[http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/acml09/|ACML 2009]])
  * The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management([[http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/about/index.htm|CIKM'2009]]) 

  * IEEE International Conference on Social Computing([[http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/|SocialCom-09]]), 2009


==== Work Experience ====
  * Research Intern at Web Intelligence Group, [[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/asia/|Microsoft Research Asia]] (June, 2009~)\\ Mentor: Chin-Yew Lin



==== Teaching Assistant ====
  * CSC1120: Introduction to Computing Using C++
  * CSC2120: Introduction to Software Engineering
  * CSC4170: Web Intelligence and Social Computing  
   


==== Selected Awards ====

  * The 3rd Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum, "SOPING: A Chinese Customer Review Mining System" (An extension work of my SIGIR 2008 paper), **Best Paper Award**, 2008.
  * IBM Scholarship for outstanding students in China, 2008
  * SIGIR Student Travel Grant (undergraduate), 2008
  * Awarded the title of graduate with honor of Zhejiang University (undergraduate), 2008 
  * Awarded ChuKeChen college honor’s degree (undergraduate), 2008
  * Awarded Zhejiang University outstanding undergraduate thesis, about top 3%, (undergraduate), 2008
  * First Grade Scholarship of [[http://www.weichai.com/e_default.shtml|WeiChai Power]] (undergraduate) 2007