Shanchan Wu AV Williams Building Department of Computer Science University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD 20742 Email: wsc AT cs doc umd doc edu Curriculum Vitae

About me

I am a Ph.D student in Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park,
working with Prof. Louiqa Raschid and Prof. William Rand.
I was a research intern at IBM T.J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER for the summer of 2008 and 2009.
I was a software engineer at Yahoo China from 2004 to 2006.
I received my M.S. from Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park,
my M.E. and B.E. from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University.

I am on the job market now. Expected graduation: August 2012.

Research Interests

• Social Media and Social Network Analysis
• Information Retrieval
• Machine Learning and Data Mining

Recent Publications

• Shanchan Wu, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid. Recommendations in Social Media for Brand Monitoring. 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2011.
• Shanchan Wu, Tamer Elsayed, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid. Predicting Author Blog Channels with High Value Future Posts for Monitoring. Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2011. (pdf)
• Shanchan Wu, Louiqa Raschid and William Rand. Future Link Prediction in the Blogosphere for Recommendation. Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2011. (pdf)
• Shanchan Wu, Yefim Shuf, Hong Min, Hubertus Franke, Bala Iyer, Frances H Villafuerte, and Julie Watts. Analyzing and Improving Table Space Allocation. 22th Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 2011. (pdf)
• William Rand, Shanchan Wu, Louiqa Raschid and Yogesh Joshi. Understanding Diffusion in Digital Social Media. 2nd Annual Complexity in Business Conference, 2010.
• John Edmonds, Louiqa Raschid, Hassan Sayyadi, Shanchan Wu. Exploiting Social Media to Provide Humanitarian Specialist Users with Event Based Search, Recommendations and Personalized Content. 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management(ISCRAM), 2010.