Shengbo Guo

News: I submitted my PhD thesis in January 2011, and I am now a Staff Research Scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France. My new webpage is here. This webpage will not be maintained.

PhD Candidate@ ANU, Graduate Researcher @ SML Group, National ICT Australia (NICTA)

ShortBio (CV) :

• PhD: Machine Learning, ANU, expected graduation in 2010

• Thesis: Bayesian Recommender Systems: Models and Algorithms ( pdf )

• MSc: Pattern Recognition & Intelligent System, USTC, 2007

• BSc: Computer Science, HAUST, 2004

Research Interests:

Machine learning, information retrieval, graphical models, approximate inference, natural language processing, recommender systems, and decision making

Publications:

• Sparse Bayesian Multi-Task Learning, C. Archambeau, S. Guo, O. Zoeter, NIPS 2011, Accepted, Granada, Spain (New!).

• Diverse Retrieval via Greedy Optimization of Expected 1-call@k in a Latent Subtopic Relevance Model, S. Sanner, S. Guo, T. Graepel, S. Kharazmi, S. Karimi, CIKM 2011, Accepted, Glasgow, UK (New!).

• Gaussian Process Preference Elicitation, E. Bonilla, S. Guo, S. Sanner, NIPS 2010, Accepted, Vancouver, Canada.

• Probabilistic Latent Maximal Marginal Relevance, S. Guo, S. Sanner, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Real-time Multiattribute Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Pairwise Comparison Queries, S. Guo, S. Sanner, AI & STATS 2010: 289-296, Sardinia, Italy.

• Real-time Multiattribute Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Pairwise Comparison Queries, S. Guo, S. Sanner, NIPS 2009 Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.

• Choosing Business Collaborators Using Computing Intelligence Methods, Y. Zhang, S. Guo, J. Hu, A. Hodgkinson, ICIC (1) 2008: 529-535.

• Long-Range Temporal Correlations in the Spontaneous in vivo Activity of Interneuron in the Mouse Hippocampus, S. Guo, Y. Wang, X. Yan, L. Lin, J. Tsien, D. Huang, ICIC (2) 2007: 1339-1344.

• Gene Selection Based on Mutual Information for the Classification of Multi-class Cancer, S. Guo, M. R. Lyu, T. M. Lok, ICIC (3) 2006: 454-463.

• Bark Classification Based on Gabor Filter Features Using RBPNN Neural Network, Z. Huang, D. Huang, J. Du, Z. Quan, S. Guo, ICONIP (2) 2006: 80-87.

• The Study on the Fractal Property of Inter-Spike Interval Sequences of Interneurons in Mouse Hippocampus, S. Guo, Master's Thesis in Chinese, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2007.

International Talks:

• Probabilistic Latent Maximal Marginal Relevance, 26 May 2010, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

• Probabilistic Latent Maximal Marginal Relevance, 19 May 2010, Google Zurich, Switzerland

• A Latent Variable Graphical Model Derivation of Diversity for Set-based Retrieval, 7 May 2010, INRIA, Paris, France

• Real-time Multiattribute Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Pairwise Comparison Queries, 4 May 2010, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Projects:

• Co-PI for the Google Research Award -- Preference Elicitation for Social Recommendation, 2011 (New!)

Professional Activities:

• Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Social Web Mining co-located with IJCAI, Barcelona, Spain, 16-18 July 2011 (New!)
• Journal Reviewer: Neurocomputing

Supervisors:

• Bob Williamson, The Scientific Director of NICTA & Professor at ANU
• Scott Sanner, Senior Researcher, NICTA
• Tiberio Caetano, Senior Researcher, NICTA
• Wray Buntine, Principal Researcher, NICTA

Collaborators and Friends:

• Edwin Bonilla, Researcher, NICTA
• Lan Du, PhD student, ANU
• Thore Graepel, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Julian McAuley, PhD student, ANU
• Kee Siong Ng, Adjunct Research Fellow, ANU
• Qiang Yang, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Jin Yu, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Adelaide

Awards:

• Endeavour Postgraduate Award, 2007 - 2010
• Outstanding Postgraduate Award, Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006

Contact Details:

Email: Shengbo (dot) Guo@anu.edu.au
+61 4 3181 0978 (Mobile)
+61 2 6267 6295 (Work)
+61 2 6267 6230 (Fax)
shengboguo (Skype)
Mailing address: Locked Bag 8001, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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Last updated on October 2011