Assistant Computer Science

Kai Zhao

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Algorithms and theory in Natural Language Processing; Structured Prediction; On-

RESEARCH

line Learning; Kernel Methods; Machine Translation.

INTERESTS

Ph.D. Student

EDUCATION

Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY 2010 - Present

Mentor: Professor Liang Huang

Major: Computer Science

Bachelor of Engineering

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 2006 - 2010

Graduated with Honor

Major: Computer Science

Science Fellowship, Graduate Center, CUNY 2010 & 2011

HONORS &

National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of PR. China 2009

AWARDS

Outstanding Student Scholarship, USTC 2008

Research Assistant 2012 - Present

RESEARCH

Queens College, Flushing, NY

EXPERIENCE

Explored applying online learning algorithm in a minibatch manner to paral-

lelize on multi-core architecture.

Studied machine learning with inexact inference for large-scale NLP tasks in-

cluding part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing.

Investigated properties of online learning algorithms like Perceptron and MIRA,

and applications of kernel methods in online learning.

Research Assistant 2010 - 2012

Lehman College, Bronx, NY

Simulated and analyzed complex system modeled by differential equations.

Evaluated various techniques to speedup large-scale stochastic simulations.

Lectured numerical methods in Computational Modeling and Analysis for Com-

plex Systems workshop.

Teaching Assistant

TEACHING

Machine Learning, Graduate Center, CUNY Spring 2013

EXPERIENCE

Python Programming, Queens College, CUNY Fall 2012

Kai Zhao and Liang Huang, Minibatch and Parallelization for Online Large Margin Struc-

PUBLICATIONS

tured Learning, NAACL 2013 (In Review).

Deguo Xia, Haoran Zheng, Zhiqiang Liu, Guisheng Li, Jinlong Li, Jiong Hong, and

Kai Zhao, MRSD: a web server for Metabolic Route Search and Design, Bioinformatics,

doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr160 March 2011

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