Shuguang WANG ,曙光(MSc, PhD Student)

Intelligent Systems Program

University of Pittsburgh

5406 Sennott Square

210 South Bouquet Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Office Telephone: 412-624-9182

Email: swang at cs dot pitt dot edu

04/29/2008

This is my third year of PhD study in ISP, University of Pittsburgh. You can find some quick facts about me in this web page.
 

Courses @ ISP.Pitt.edu

Taking (2008 Fall)

ISSP 2070 Probabilistic Methods for Computer-Based Decision Support

ISSP 3712 (CS 2740), Knowledge Representation (Audit)

CMU 10705 Intermediate Statistics (Audit)

CMU 10708 Probabilistic Graphical Models (Audit)

Taken

2008 Spring

CS 2150 Design and Analysis of Algorithms

2007 Fall

ISSP 3535 (CS 3750), Adv Topics in Machine Learning

CS2550, Principles of Database Systems

2007 Spring

ISSP 2030, Adv Topics in Intelligent Systems

ISSP 2170 (CS 2750), Machine Learning

ISSP 3120 (CS 3730), Adv Topics in NLP

ISSP 3712 (CS 2740), Knowledge Representation

2006 Fall

BIOST 2041, Introduction to Statistical Methods I

ISSP 2020,    Topics in Intelligent Systems

ISSP 2160 (CS 2710),    Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

ISSP 2230 (CS 2731),    Introduction to Natural Language Processing

 

Research Interests:

I am working under Dr. Milos Hauskrecht on a Bioinformatics Project. I am also interested in several other research areas, here is a list of topics I worked and have been working on:

  • Machine Translation
  • Speech Recognition
  • Information Retrieval
  • Question Answering
  • Database Indexing
  • Image Processing
 

Education:

 

Research Experience:

  • GALE, A Global Autonomous Language Exploitation System.
  • QUALIFER, A Question Answering System.
  • iDistance Joins, High-Dimensional Join algorithms.
  • iMinMax*, A High-Dimensional Indexing mechanism.
 

Professional Experience:

 

Publications:

  1. Shuguang Wang and Milos Hauskrecht, Improving Biomedical Document Retrieval using Domain Knowledge, ACM SIGIR (poster), July 2008.
  2. Cui Yu, Bin Cui, Shuguang Wang, and Jianwen Su,  Efficient Index-Based KNN Join Processing for High-dimensional Data, Information and Software Technology, 2007.
  3. Hui Yang, Tat Seng Chua, Shuguang Wang, and Chun Keat Koh, Structured Use of External Knowledge for Event-based Open Domain Question Answering, ACM SIGIR, August 2003.
  4. Hui Yang, Tat Seng Chua, and Shuguang Wang, Modeling Web Knowledge for Answering Event-based Questions, WWW, May 2003.
  5. Shuguang Wang, Cui Yu, and Beng Chin Ooi, Compressing the Index - A Simple and yet Efficient Approximation Approach to High-Dimensional Indexing, WAIM, July 2001.
 

Awards:

  • 2006 - 2007, Intelligent System Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
  • 1996 - 2001, Singapore Ministry of Education Undergraduate Scholarship, Singapore
 

Hobbies:

Reading, Movies, Travel, Music, Jogging, Badminton, Table Tennis, Food.

 

 

Curriculum Vitae:

 

Please drop me a email for a detailed CV and kindly state what file format you can accept.

This site was last updated on April 29, 2008.