FEI  WU 

Address:
Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Washington,
Box 352350,
Seattle, WA 98195-2350.

Email:
wufei at cs dot washington dot edu
wufei_pj at hotmail dot com


I am a 3rd year Ph.D candidate ( Sep. 2005 ~ present) in the Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Washington at Seattle. I am working with professor Daniel S. Weld and Oren Etzioni.
I received my Master degree in the Automation Department at Tsinghua University in 2005, and my advisor was professor Changshui Zhang. Before this, I received my B.E. degree in the same department in 2002.


Research Interests

My main research interests are in the fields of Machine Learning and Data Mining, especially on the Web. Related topics include Graphical Models, Statistical Relational Learning, Information Extraction & Integration, Information Retrieval Data Management...   I am also interested in Intelligent User Interface and Database.

Currently, I am working on the Intelligence in Wikipedia” project.  This project aims to accelerate the extraction of Wikipedia knowledge, e.g. with construction of infoboxes, and link the resulting schemata together to form a knowledge base of outstanding size. Not only will this “semantified Wikipedia” be an even more valuable resource for AI, but it will support faceted browsing and simple forms of inference that may increase the recall of question-answering systems.


Publications 

o   Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology  [pdf]

Fei Wu, Daniel S. Weld

In the 17th International World Wide Web Conference, (WWW-08), Beijing, China, April, 2008.

 

o   Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia   [pdf]

Fei Wu, Daniel S. Weld

In the Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-07), Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2007.   

(Best paper prize)

 

o   Exploring Patterns of Social Commonality Among File Directories at Work   [pdf]

John C. Tang, Clemens Drews, Mark Smith, Fei Wu, Alison Sue, and Tessa Lau

Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI-07), San Jose, CA, May 2007, pp. 951-960, 2007.

 

o   An Evolutionary System for Near-regular Texture Synthesis

Fei Wu, Changshui Zhang, Jing-rui He

Journal of Pattern Recognition, 2007.

 

o   Extracting Objects from the Web   [pdf]

Zaiqing Nie, Fei Wu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma

In the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE -06), 2006. (Poster paper)

 

o   Relevant Linear Feature Extraction Using Side-information and Unlabeled Data   [pdf]

Fei Wu, Yonglei Zhou, Changshui Zhang
17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 04), Cambridge, Aug. 23-25, 2004. (Oral paper)

 

o   Self-enhanced Relevant Component Analysis with Side-information and Unlabeled Data   [pdf]

Fei Wu, Yonglei Zhou, Changshui Zhang
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2004 (IJCNN 04), Budapest, Hungary, Jul. 25-29, 2004.


o   Active Texture Synthesis Based on Multi-agent   [pdf]

Fei Wu, Changshui Zhang
Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2004 (ACCV 04), Jeju Island, Korea, Jan. 27-30, 2004.

 

o   Web Object Extraction

Fei Wu, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma

Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2004-121, 2004.

 


Main Courses

2007 Autumn

  Stat 516     Stochastic Modeling  

2007 Spring
  CSE 551    Operating System
2007 Winter
  Stat 513       Statistical Inference(2)
2006 Autumn
    Stat 512    Statistical Inference(1)

2006 Spring
   
CSE 503    Software Engineering
    CSE 544    Principles of Database Systems

2006 Winter

  
CSE 521    Design and Analysis of Algorithms
    CSE 573    Artificial Intelligence(2)
                     
Project: Continuous Markov Logic Networks            With Hoifung Poon
2005 Autumn

  
CSE 531    Computability and Complexity
    CSE 573    Artificial Intelligence(1)
                  
 Project: Exploring Communities and Their Rankings in Citeseer and DBLP         With Nodira Khoussainova

Teaching Assistant

2006 Winter
  
CSE 444    Introduction to Database Systems          Instructor:     Dan Suciu
2005 Autumn

    CSE 321    Discrete Mathematics                            Instructor:     Dieter Fox, Anna Karlin


Personal Experiences

o    March 2006 to present, research assistant with Prof. Daniel S. Weld, University of Washington at Seattle.

o    June 2006, intern at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA. Working with Dr. Jonh Tang, and Tessa Lau.

o    September 2002 to July 2005, research assistant with Prof. Changshui Zhang, Tsinghua University.

o    Summer 2004, visiting student in the Web Search & Mining group, Microsoft Research Asia, working with Dr. Zaiqing Nie, Ji-rong Wen, and Wei-ying Ma.


Other Interests 

o    Sports, especially badminton.

o    Reading, music, cinema.


 

Last modified: Mar.06 2008