Yuheng Hu

I am a PhD student of Computer Science at Arizona State University under supervision of Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati. My current research focuses on issues at Web Data Management including social media data management and integration. Before landing in the desert, I worked with Prof. Vagelis Hristidis, and Prof. Panos Ipeirotis.

I spent Summer 2012 working as a research intern at Microsoft Research. I worked on buiding an aggregated system for civic engagement for hyperlocal communities.

I spent Summer 2011 working as a research intern at Avaya Research Labs. I worked on extracting meaningful themes and patterns from large-scale tweets in response to media events.

Publications

• Listen to the Crowd: Automated Analysis of Events via Aggregated Twitter Sentiment.
  Yuheng Hu, Fei Wang, Subbarao Kambhampati. In IJCAI 2013 (Oral+Poster. Acceptance rate: 28%)

• Dude, srsly?: The Surprisingly Formal Nature of Twitter's Language.
  Yuheng Hu, Kartik Talamadupula, Subbarao Kambhampati. In Proc. of the 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'13) (Full paper. Acceptance rate: 20%)

• Whoo.ly: Facilitating Information Seeking For Hyperlocal Communities Using Social Media.
  Yuheng Hu, Shelly Farnham, Andrés Monroy-Hernández. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2013 (full paper. Acceptance rate: 20% Best Paper Honorable Mention)

• ET-LDA: Joint Topic Modeling for Aligning Events and their Twitter Feedback.
  Yuheng Hu, Ajita John, Fei Wang, Subbarao Kambhampati. In AAAI 2012 (Oral+Poster. Acceptance rate: 26.8% )

• What were the Tweets about? Topical Associations between Public Events and Twitter Feeds.
  Yuheng Hu, Ajita John, Doree Duncan Seligmann, Fei Wang. In Proc. of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) (Oral. Acceptance rate: 20%, 20 oral papers out of 350+ submissions)

• Event Analytics via Social Media.
  Yuheng Hu, Ajita John, Doree Duncan Seligmann. In Proc. ACM Multimedia 2011 Workshop on Social and Behavioral Networked Media Access (SBNMA) , 2011

• Relevance-based Retrieval on Hidden-Web Text Databases without Ranking Support.
  Vagelis Hristidis, Yuheng Hu, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2011.

• Ranked Queries over Sources with Boolean Query Interfaces without Ranking Support.
  Vagelis Hristidis, Yuheng Hu, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis. In Proc. 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010.

• WISNO: Ontology Data-Processing Strategy for Wireless Sensor Networks.
  Shuoping Wang, Yuheng Hu, Zhendong Wu, Ming Guo. In Proc. 3rd International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom) 2007.

• Ontology driven adaptive data processing in wireless sensor networks.
  Yuheng Hu, Ming Guo, Zhendong Wu. In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (Infoscale), 2007.

• SOGA: Fine-Grained Authorization for Self-Organizing Grid.
  Ming Guo, Yong Zhu, Yuheng Hu, Weishuai Yang. In Proc. 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference/8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management worshops (APWeb/WAIM Workshop) 2007.

Professional Activities

• PC Member: IJCAI 2013, ICWSM 2013, ACM Multimedia 2013


• Reviewer: CHI-Interactivity 2013, Hypertext 2013, Hypertext 2012, RAMSS 2012, Journal of Information Retrieval


• External Reviewer: WWW 2012, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Teaching

• CSE355 Introduction to Theory of Computing (Spring 2010) (with Prof. Goran Konjevod).

My collaborators

Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State Univesity), Yi Chen (Arizona State Univesity, now at New Jersey Institute of Technology), Ajita John (Avaya Research Labs), Doree Duncan Seligmann (Avaya Research Labs), Fei Wang (IBM Research, T.J Waston), Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis (New York University), Vagelis Hristidis (Florida International University, now at UC Riverside), Weishuai Yang (SUNY Binghamton, now at BNP Paribas), Ming Guo (Zhejiang University)

Fun stuffs

• Arizona: Grand Canyon NP, Monument Valley, Glen Canyon NRA, Lake Powell, Page, Phoenix, Sedona, Flagstaff, Tucson


• California: San Francisco, Stockton, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Stanford,Yosemite NP


• Colorado: Rocky Mountain NP, Boulder, Denver


• Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven


• Florida: Orlando, Tempa, Jacksonville, Miami, Keywest, Castillo De San Marcos NM, Biscayne NP, Big Cypress NR, Everglades NP


• Georgia: Altanta


• Washington DC


• Maryland: Baltimore, Rockville


• Massachusetts: Boston


• Nevada: Las Vegas


• New Mexico: Albuquerque, Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Taos


• New York: Buffalo, Niagra Falls, NYC, Ithaca


• New Jersey: Princeton, New Brunswick, Basking Ridge, Morristown


• Pennsylvania: Philadelphia


• Utah: Arches NP, Canyonlands NP, Bryce Canyon NP, Zion NP


• Washington: Mount Rainier NP, Olympic NP, Seattle