Dr. Weiwei Cheng 程蔚蔚Senior Principal Scientist at Zalando |
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News🔆 March 16th 2024. My team is proud to announce the launch of Zalando Trend Spotter, a new experience that utilizes the vast array of Zalando data to highlight the latest fashion trends throughout Europe. This innovative tool has already gained recognition, being featured in prominent publications such as Wirtschaftswoche and Textilwirtschaft. 🔆 May 1st 2023. I start my position at Zalando SE as a senior principal scientist in Berlin, Germany. Zalando is a leading European online platform for fashion and lifestyle with more than 50 million active customers across 25 countries. More about Zalando can be found at corporate.zalando.com. 🔆 March 11th 2023. My patent, Artificial Intelligence System Using Deep Neural Networks for Pairwise Character-Level Text Analysis and Recommendations, US Patent 11,599,927, is granted by the US Patent Office. This was a joint invention by Valentin Flunkert and me. 🔆 Some of my talks are recorded: BioDr. Weiwei Cheng is an AI researcher with expertise in machine learning and natural language processing. After obtaining a double bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration at Zhengzhou University in June 2004, he studied Data and Knowledge Engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg from October 2005 to November 2007, where he received the Outstanding International Student Scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt in October 2006. He obtained his Master of Science degree with the highest honor in November 2007 and the Best Graduate of the Year award in October 2008. In December 2007, he joined the Computational Intelligence Group at Philipps University Marburg as a research staff member, where he obtained his doctorate, Dr. rer. nat., in May 2012. He joined Amazon in July 2013 and was a founding member of the Amazon Core Machine Learning team. As a senior scientist, he has led the development of AI-based products for teams such as Alexa, Search, Marketplace, Customer Reviews, and Kindle. As a Bar Raiser, he has conducted and supervised hundreds of interviews across both tech and non-tech roles. Since May 2023, Weiwei Cheng has joined Zalando as a senior principal scientist in the Ecommerce Platform organization. Dr. Cheng has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and holds over 10 US patents. His research won multiple accolades, including the Prominent Paper Award from the Artificial Intelligence journal, the Best Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, recognition in the Notable Computing Books and Articles by ACM Computing Reviews, the Best Student Paper Award at the 19th European Conference on Machine Learning, etc. He was a recipient of the 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. His current research interests include question answering, preference learning, and multi-label classification. He was area chair at ACL and EMNLP, senior program committee member at AAAI and IJCAI. Education
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PublicationsMarco Del Tredici, Gianni Barlacchi, Xiaoyu Shen, Weiwei Cheng, Adrià de Gispert Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, Weiwei Cheng Nam Khanh Tran, Weiwei Cheng Nedelina Teneva, Weiwei Cheng Eyke Hüllermeier, Weiwei Cheng Róbert Busa-Fekete, Balázs Szörényi, Paul Weng, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Willem Waegeman, Krzysztof Dembczyński, Arkadiusz Jachnik, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Sascha Henzgen, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Eyke Hüllermeier, Weiwei Cheng Amira Abdel-Aziz, Weiwei Cheng, Marc Strickert, Eyke Hüllermeier Dominik Heider, Robin Senge, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Róbert Busa-Fekete, Balázs Szörényi, Paul Weng, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Róbert Busa-Fekete, Balázs Szörényi, Paul Weng, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier, Willem Waegeman, Volkmar Welker Ali Fallah Tehrani, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Krzysztof Dembczyński, Eyke Hüllermeier, Adrian Jaroszewicz, Willem Waegeman Ali Fallah Tehrani, Weiwei Cheng, Krzysztof Dembczyński, Eyke Hüllermeier Johannes Fürnkranz, Eyke Hüllermeier, Weiwei Cheng, Sang-Hyeun Park Krzysztof Dembczyński, Willem Waegeman, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng Krzysztof Dembczyński, Willem Waegeman, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Thomas Fober, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Gjergji Kasneci, Thore Graepel, David Stern, Ralf Herbrich Ali Fallah Tehrani, Weiwei Cheng, Krzysztof Dembczyński, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Johannes Fürnkranz, Eyke Hüllermeier, Sang-Hyeun Park Ali Fallah Tehrani, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Ali Fallah Tehrani, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Michaël Rademaker, Bernard De Baets, Eyke Hüllermeier Krzysztof Dembczyński, Willem Waegeman, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Krzysztof Dembczyński, Willem Waegeman, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Krzysztof Dembczyński, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Krzysztof Dembczyński, Eyke Hüllermeier Krzysztof Dembczyński, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Jens Hühn, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier Eyke Hüllermeier, Johannes Fürnkranz, Weiwei Cheng, Klaus Brinker Weiwei Cheng Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Hüllermeier, Bernhard Seeger, Ilya Vladimirskiy |
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PatentsValentin Flunkert, Weiwei Cheng, inventors; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, Amanda Dee Bottorff, Sandeep Ranganathan, inventors; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, Christopher Gonzales, inventors; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, Amanda Dee Bottorff, Sandeep Ranganathan, inventors; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, Christopher Gonzales, inventors; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee Weiwei Cheng, inventor; Amazon Technologies, Inc., assignee |
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Talks & TutorialsGenerative AI and its applications Salience Rank: efficient keyphrase extraction with topic modeling [slides][video] Salience Rank: efficient unsupervised keyphrase extraction with topic modeling Applying natural language processing at Amazon Preference learning using statistical methods for label ranking [slides] Preference-based evolutionary direct policy search [pdf][slides] Preference-based reinforcement learning [slides] Learning monotone nonlinear models using the Choquet integral [slides][video] The RipOff! game: a tutorial of cooperative game theory [slides] Graded multi-label classification: the ordinal case [slides] Acceptance speech of 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad [pdf-zh][pdf-en] Text classification: concepts and methods [pdf][slides] Text classification: a back-to-school tutorial Human vs computer: case studies [slides] Multi-label classification: a new machine learning problem [slides][video] Combining instance-based learning and logistic regression for multi-label classification [slides][video] Human-computation in internet [pdf][slides] Ranking the skyline: an application of preference learning [proceedings][slides] Instance based label ranking [slides] A brief introduction to preference handling [slides] |
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AwardsProminent paper award [pic 1 2] Best paper award [pic] Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012 [pdf][link] DAAD conference scholarship Data mining competition award [pic] NIPS travel grant DAAD STIBET scholarship Nomination for best student paper award [pic] UNESCO ECMLPKDD conference grant ICML scholarship [link] China national award [pic][link de1 de2 zh1 zh2 zh3][video CCTV CRIOnline] Best paper award [pic][video] ICML scholarship [link] Best graduate award [pic] MLSS scholarship Nomination for best paper award Outstanding international student scholarship [pdf] Best debater award [pic] Speech contest award [pic] |
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Supervised Interns & StudentsYahui Liu, University of Trento Sean Chung, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jamin Shin, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Sven Buechel, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena Ida Szubert, University of Edinburgh Michael Schlichtkrull, University of Edinburgh Joachim Bingel & Mareike Hartmann, University of Copenhagen Arthur Bražinskas, University of Amsterdam Nam Khanh Tran, L3S Research Center & Leibniz University Hannover Nedelina Teneva, University of Chicago Rebecca Knowles, Johns Hopkins University (co-supervised with György Szarvas) |
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