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., 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. 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, 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), · 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, o “Multiagent
Reinforcement Learning”, Computer Science dept., o “Learning in
General-Sum Stochastic Games with Incomplete Information”, the Ninth International Symposium on
Dynamic Games and Applications, · 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
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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 M.S.
Computer science M.S. Economics B.A.
Economics Membership
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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) |