Contact Information
Salvatori Computer Center(SAL) 227
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los ANgeles:CA 900089-0781, USA
USC Statictics Machine Learning Lab
E-Mail:meihongw@usc.edu
My name is "Meihong Wang". I was born in Ningbo, China.
Currently I am a second year Ph.D student in Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California, working with my advisor Prof. Fei Sha in the area of Machine Learning.
Update: I have left USC. Now working at Facebook as software engineer.
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition
Education
University of Southern California, CA
- Ph.D student, Computer Science 2009~2014.
- Visiting student. 2008.2~2008.3
- Bachelor, Department of Computer Science 2007~2009.
- Bachelor, Mixed Class at Chu KoChen Honors College 2005~2007
Publications
| 1. | Information Theoretical Clustering via Semidefinite Programming. The fourteenth international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2011 Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA |
| 2. | Speech Recognition With Segmental Conditional Random Fields: A Summary of the JHU CLSP 2010 Summer Workshop. The 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing(ICASSP) 2011 Prague. |
| 3. | Unsupervised kernel dimension reduction. In Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2010 Vancouver, Canada 2010. |
Research Experiences
University of Southern California, USA
- Research Assistant, 2009.8 ~ Present
- Intern, 2011.06~2011.08
- Tone modeling in tonal languange speech recognition system.
- Mentor: Xin Lei, Yun-Hsuan Sung.
- Graduate student member of team Speech Recognition with Segmental Conditional Random Fields.
- Implemented deep belief network to generate phoneme sequence feature for SCARF framework
- Research Intern, 2008.07~2009.02
- Applied paralleled LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) model to do web-scale image annotation
- Designed and implemented a hyper framework for image annotation
- Mentor: jiakai Liu, Bo Tao, Edward Chang.
- Research Assistant, Summer 2007
- Worked on project "Real Time Face Tracing in Video": and implemented CONDENSATION algorithm.
- Designed an approach to convert photos to cartoon style image and then converted the bit image to scalable vector image with a partner.