Junling Hu

junling@junlinghu.com

 

Summary:

·         Passionate designer for Internet technology and interactive systems. Visionary and extensive experience in artificial intelligence and interactive systems.

·         Experienced in the full cycle of product design, market requirement analysis, implementation, launch and customer support

Experience

Bosch Research, Palo Alto, California                                                                       2006-present

Senior Research Engineer, User Interaction group

·         Research and development of user interaction interface through voice, text and other modality.

·         Apply machine learning to create adaptive user interactive systems

·         Market research on dialog systems, market segmentation and market size.

 

iLifeCoach, Menlo Park, California                                                               2004-2006

Founder, CEO and CTO

Internet company that provides online life and career coaching to consumers

1. Identify a unique and underserved market, analyze the market size, identify partnership and organize management team

2. Lead the design of our core products. Pay special attention to user need and usability. 

3. Product development: Supervise the engineering team to develop the product on a large-scale

web server.

4. Aggressively market our product through PR, email marketing, advertisement and search engine optimization.

5. Collect customer feedback, re-design our product based on customer feedback.   

 

Talkai, Inc., Menlo Park, California                                                              2003-2004

General Manager

Intelligent talking product for medical domain

1.       Lead the full-cycle of product development, starting from market requirement gathering, design, implementation, and launch of the product

2.       Supervise and motivate the engineering team, deliver the product ahead of schedule 

3.       Organize the transition of the product from PC-based solution to Internet solution.

 

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York                                            2000-2003

Assistant Professor of Information Systems

·         Lead the research and design of a natural-language dialog agent, which integrates broad dictionary, parser, semantic interpreter, dialog manager and knowledge manager.

·         Lead the research and design of learning agents in multi-agent systems

·         Teaching classes on Electronic Commerce, Information systems, and dynamic games

 

Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Michigan                                       1995-1999      

Research Assistant, Decision Machine Group

·         Research on extending reinforcement learning to multi-agent system framework

·         Research and development of intelligent agents for online auctions

·         Research and development of learning agents in dynamic games

Professional Activities

·         Program Co-Chair: Workshop on Bridging the Gap of Academic and Industrial Research on

Dialog Technologies, in the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April 2007

·         Reviewer:

Speech Communication (2007)

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research,   

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Electronic Markets,                          

            National Science Foundation grant proposal review panel

            The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

·         Program Committee: The Second International Joint Conference in Autonomous Agents and

Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-03)

·         Invited Talks:

o        “Dynamic N-Best Selection in Dialog Systems”, L3S Research Institute, September 2007

o        “Reinforcement Learning in Multiagent Systems”, CSLI, Stanford University, November 2003

o         Multiagent Reinforcement Learning”, Computer Science dept., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, December 2001

o        “Learning in General-Sum Stochastic Games with Incomplete Information”, the Ninth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, Adelaide, Australia, December 2000

·         Invited workshop participant: 

o        AAAI workshop on AI for Electronic Commerce 1999      

o        Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment 2002

Selected Publications

·         Junling Hu, Fabrizio Morbini, Fuliang Weng and Xue Liu, “Dynamic N-best Selection and Its Application in Dialog Act Detection”, Proceedings of the 8th SIGDial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 59-62, September 2007

 

·         Fuliang Weng, Ye-Yi Wang, Gokhan Tur and Junling Hu. (Editors)  Proceedings of the Workshop on Bridging the Gap of Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technologies,  the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April 2007. 

 

·         Junling Hu and Michael P. Wellman, “Nash Q-Learning for General-Sum Stochastic Games”, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 4(Nov):1039-1069, 2003

 

·         Junling Hu, Daniel Reeves and Hock-Shan Wong, “Personalized Bidding agents for Online Auctions”, Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents, 2000

·         Junling Hu and Michael P. Wellman, “Experimental Results of Multiagent Reinforcement Learning”, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2000) , AAAI Press, 2000

·         Junling Hu and Michael P. Wellman, “Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: Theoretical Framework and an Algorithm”, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on    Machine Learning (ICML-98), 1998

·         Michael P. Wellman and Junling Hu, “Conjectural equilibrium in multiagent learning”, Machine Learning 33, page 1-23,1998.

·         Junling Hu and Michael P. Wellman, “Online learning about other agents in dynamic multiagent  systems”, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1998

Honors and Awards

·         National Science Foundation CAREER Award

            Project Title: Decision Making and Learning in Dynamic Multiagent Systems

·         SIGART/AAAI doctoral consortium fellowship

·         Sloan Fellowship for Distinguished Women in Engineering            

Technical Skills

·         Programming Languages: Java, C++, C#, C, LISP, Prolog

·         Scripting & Markup Languages:  JavaScript, ASP, VB Script; HTML, XML, VoiceXML

·         Operating Systems:  Unix, Linux, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Server 2003

·         .NET Development: ASP.NET, ADO.NET

·         Database:               MS SQL Server 2000/2003, My SQL

·         IDE Experience:      Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio

·          Applications:           Matlab, Mathematica

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science                       University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999

M.S. Computer science                         University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1996

M.S. Economics                                    Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1993

B.A. Economics                        Wuhan University, China, 1990

Membership

·         Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

·         International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

·         ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial)

·         Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)