Kun Liu
Bio
Kun Liu joined Yahoo! Labs as a Scientist in 2009. He is working on problems related to computational advertsing.
Before joining Yahoo, Kun spent two and half years at IBM Almaden Research Center as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working on privacy-preserving social-network analysis, text analytics and healthcare informatics. His contributions to these projects have won him five IBM Invention Achievement Awards (five patent filings) , one IBM Invention Plateau Award and one IBM Bravo Award.
Kun received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2007. His research interests include privacy-preserving data mining, social-network analysis, text analytics, distributed data mining and statistical machine learning. He has authored or co-authored 20+ peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters. He also regularly serves on the program committee of many data mining conferences (e.g., KDD, ICDM, PKDD, PAKDD), and as a reviewer of many scientific journals (e.g., IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD).
Before joining Yahoo, Kun spent two and half years at IBM Almaden Research Center as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working on privacy-preserving social-network analysis, text analytics and healthcare informatics. His contributions to these projects have won him five IBM Invention Achievement Awards (five patent filings) , one IBM Invention Plateau Award and one IBM Bravo Award.
Kun received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2007. His research interests include privacy-preserving data mining, social-network analysis, text analytics, distributed data mining and statistical machine learning. He has authored or co-authored 20+ peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters. He also regularly serves on the program committee of many data mining conferences (e.g., KDD, ICDM, PKDD, PAKDD), and as a reviewer of many scientific journals (e.g., IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD).