Awards
- ICML 2013 Classic Paper Prize
- Best Paper on Knowledge Discovery, ECML-PKDD 2012
- "COW" Student Choice Professor of the Year, 2012
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper, International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2011
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, 2010
Book
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Xiaojin Zhu and Andrew B. Goldberg.
Introduction to Semi-Supervised Learning.
Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Morgan & Claypool, 2009.
This is a short, self-contained introductory book to semi-supervised learning for advanced undergraduates, entry-level graduate students and researchers in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Psychology, etc. Free download from many university computers.
Tutorials
- Tutorial on Graphical Models at KDD 2012.
- Tutorial on All of Graphical Models at The tenth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA11), 2011.
- Tutorial on Semi-Supervised Learning at University of Chicago Machine Learning Summer School 2009
- Tutorial on Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing at ACL 2008 with John Blitzer
- Tutorial on Semi-Supervised Learning at ICML 2007
- Tutorial and practice session on Semi-Supervised Classification: learning from labeled and unlabeled data at AERFAI Summer School. Granada, 2006
Professional services
- Action Editor: Machine Learning Journal
- Area Chair, Senior Program Committee: AISTATS 2013, ICML 2013, SDM 2013, NIPS 2012, ICML 2012, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACML 2012, NIPS 2011, ICML 2011, ACML 2011
- Program Committee, Reviewer: AISTATS 2012, ACL 2012, EMNLP 2011
Short biography
Xiaojin Zhu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with affiliate appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Psychology. Dr. Zhu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He was a research staff member at IBM China Research Laboratory from 1996 to 1998. Dr. Zhu received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2010. His research interest is in machine learning, with applications in natural language processing, cognitive science, and social media.Full Curriculum Vitae