Ph.D. Student (Aug.2008 ~ )
ACM Student Member, IEEE Student Member

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mr. Tom Chao Zhou is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Irwin King and Prof. Michael R. Lyu, in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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

Mr. Tom Chao Zhou is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Irwin King and Prof. Michael R. Lyu, in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in College of Computer Science majoring in Computer Science & Technology from Zhejiang University in 2008. In his undergraduate study, he joined Innovative Software Technology Development Center (EAGLE-Lab) of Zhejiang University, when he was under the supervision of Prof. Chun Chen.

• Information Retrieval
• Machine Learning
• Social Tagging
• Recommender System
• Question and Answering (QA)
• Social Network Analysis
• Data Mining
• Opinion Mining

See research resources at Research

See my publications' page Publications

• 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

• The 4th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum 2009(2009)

• The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning(ACML 2009)
• The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(CIKM'2009)

• IEEE International Conference on Social Computing(SocialCom-09), 2009

• Research Intern at Web Intelligence Group, Microsoft Research Asia (June, 2009~)
  Mentor: Chin-Yew Lin

• CSC1120: Introduction to Computing Using C++
• CSC2120: Introduction to Software Engineering
• CSC4170: Web Intelligence and Social Computing

• 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 WeiChai Power (undergraduate) 2007