Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu

Associate Professor of Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

I am a faculty member in the Department of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research is in machine learning. On the methodology side, I work on semi-supervised learning, graphical models, and nonparametric Bayesian. On the applied side, I design machine learning and data mining models for cognitive science, natural language processing, and social media data analysis.

What's new

• Dec 2011: Tutorial on "All of Graphical Models" at ICMLA'11
• Nov 2011: I will teach Advanced Machine Learning (cs761) in Spring 2012
• Oct 2011: NIPS'11 paper on computational theory of human teaching
• Oct 2011: Invited talk at Purdue on machine learning theory for the people
• Sept 2011: Bryan Gibson is organizing Meet the AI Group talks for Wisconsin folks
• July 2011: Invited talk at UMass-Amherst on Adding Domain Knowledge to Latent Topic Models
• July 2011: s/Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/g
• June 2011: ISSTA'11 paper received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
• May 2011: AAAI'11 paper lets humans enact the co-training algorithm
• Apr 2011: IJCAI'11 paper injects arbitrary First-Order Logic domain knowledge into latent Dirichlet allocation
• Mar 2011: I am hosting Michael Jordan, Tom Mitchell, and Eric Horvitz for CS Distinguished Lectures
• Mar 2011: We are organizing an ICML'11 workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost
• Mar 2011: CMU School of Computer Science's The Link magazine has an Alumni Snapshots article on me (p.26)

Current professional services

• Action Editor: Machine Learning Journal
• Conference Organizing Committees: ICML 2011
• SPC / Area Chairs: ICML 2012, NAACL-HLT 2012, NIPS 2011, ICML 2011, ACML 2011, NIPS 2010, ICML 2010
• Program committees: EMNLP 2011, AAAI 2010, AISTATS 2010, COLING 2010, ICDL 2010

Short biography

Xiaojin Zhu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the 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 is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with affiliate appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Psychology. 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 other domains.

Curriculum Vitae

My CV in pdf