Yuening Hu

Contact:
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Email: ynhu AT cs DOT umd DOT edu

• Topic modeling
• Interactive topic modeling
• Nonparametric Bayesian models
• Computer vision and image processing

• Computational Linguistics and Information Processing lab and Cloud Computing Center (Sep. 2010 ~ Current): interactive topic modeling, nonparametric Bayesian models, with Prof. Jordan Boyd Graber.
• Tencent, Shenzhen, China (Apr. 2009 ~ July 2009): Tencent users profile analysis, with Researcher Duoquan Li and Researcher Lei Xiao.
• Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China (Oct. 2006 ~ Mar. 2007): speech context modeling, with Researcher Min Chu.
• Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory in Speech & Image Processing, China (Mar. 2006 ~ Sep. 2006 & Apr. 2007 ~ Apr. 2009): face detection and recognition, numeral recognition, with Prof. Yanning Zhang.
• Aerial Robotics Competition Team: champion title in China Aerial Robotics Competition (2008), Yinquan Cup Aerial Robotics Competition (2007) and Xiaolong Cup Aerial Robotics Competition of China (2005).
• Mathematical Modeling Team: honorable mention in international mathematical/interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (2005, 2006).

• Yuening Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Brianna Satinoff. Interactive Topic Modeling. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011. [Slides]
• Yuening Hu, Min Chu. Prosody Study with Context-Dependent Acoustic Models. Proc. of International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 2008.
• Yuening Hu, Min Chu, Chao Huang, Yanning Zhang. Prosody Boundary Detection through Context-Dependent Position Models. Proc. of Interspeech, 2008.
• Yuening Hu, Min Chu, Chao Huang, Yanning Zhang. Exploring Tonal Variations via Context-Dependent Tone Models. Proc. of Interspeech, 2007.

• Computational linguistics I (CMSC 723 )
• Computational linguistics II (CMSC 773)
• Machine learning (CMSC 726)
• Image understanding (CMSC 828P)
• Pictorial information (CMSC 733)
• Computational geometry (CMSC 754)
• Database management (CMSC 724)
• Software test (CMSC 737)
• Computational modeling of language (LING 848)
• Information processing (CMSC 828L)

• Object Oriented Programming I (CMSC 131), Aug. 2009 ~ Dec. 2009
• Object Oriented Programming II (CMSC 132), Jan. 2010 ~ May 2010 & June 2010 ~ Aug. 2010
• Digital Image Processing, Sep. 2007 ~ Jan. 2008