Contact

Office: 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01 Connexis (South Tower), Singapore 138632
Phone: (+65) 6408-2304 
Email: hady [at] hadylauw.com 

Short Bio

Hady is currently a Senior Research Engineer at the Data Mining Department of Institute for Infocomm Research. He is also an adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Information Systems of Singapore Management University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Search Labs group at Microsoft Research. He earned his Ph.D. and B.Eng (1st Class) degrees at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His Ph.D. thesis was in the area of social network mining from user-generated content. He was also a recipient of several fellowship awards, including A*STAR Graduate Scholarship for his PhD studies and Dr Goh Keng Swee Scholarship award for his undergraduate studies. His research interests are in the areas of social network mining and Web search/mining.

Ongoing Research Projects

• Augmented Reality Information Search Engine
• Social Network Mining

• PC member: ICDE 2011, KDD 2010, ICDM 2010, CIKM 2010, EC 2010,
• Journal reviewer: TOIS, TKDE, TIST, IC
  

• Detecting Product Review Spammers using Rating Behaviors,
  by Ee-Peng Lim, Bing Liu, Nitin Jindal, Viet-An Nguyen, and Hady W. Lauw,
  ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'10), Oct 2010.
• STEvent: Spatio-Temporal Event Model for Social Network Discovery,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, HweeHwa Pang, and Teck-Tim Tan,
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Vol 28, No. 3, Article 15 (June 2010).
• Homophily in the Digital World: A LiveJournal Case Study,
  by Hady W. Lauw, John C. Shafer, Rakesh Agrawal, and Alexandros Ntoulas,
  IEEE Internet Computing: Special Issue on Social Computing in Blogosphere, Vol 14, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2010.
• Fuzzy Matching of Web Queries to Structured Data,
  by Tao Cheng, Hady W. Lauw, and Stelios Paparizos,
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'10), Mar 2010.
• Symphony: A Platform for Search-Driven Applications,
  by John C. Shafer, Rakesh Agrawal, and Hady W. Lauw,
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'10), Mar 2010.
• On Mining Rating Dependencies in Online Collaborative Rating Networks,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, and Ke Wang,
  Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'09), Apr 2009.
• Bias and Controversy in Evaluation Systems,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, and Ke Wang,
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 20, No. 11, Nov 2008.
• Predicting Trusts among Users of Online Communities - An Epinions Case Study,
  by Haifeng Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Hady W. Lauw, Minh-Tam Le, Aixin Sun, Jaideep Srivastava, and Young Ae Kim, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08), Jul 2008.
• On Ranking Controversies in Wikipedia: Models and Evaluation,
  by Ba-Quy Vuong, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Minh-Tam Le, Hady W. Lauw, and Kuiyu Chang,
  ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'08), Feb 2008.
• Measuring Article Quality in Wikipedia: Models and Evaluation,
  by Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Hady W. Lauw, and Ba-Quy Vuong,
  ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'07), Nov 2007.
• Summarizing Review Scores of Unequal Reviewers,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, and Ke Wang,
  SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM'07), Apr 2007.
• TUBE (Text-cUBE) for Discovering Documentary Evidence of Associations among Entities,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, and HweeHwa Pang,
  ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'07), Mar 2007.
• Measuring Qualities of Articles Contributed by Online Communities,
  by Ee-Peng Lim, Ba-Quy Vuong, Hady W. Lauw, and Aixin Sun,
  IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06), Dec 2006.
• Bias and Controversy: Beyond the Statistical Deviation,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, and Ke Wang,
  ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'06), Aug 2006.
• Social Network Discovery by Mining Spatio-Temporal Events,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, HweeHwa Pang, and Teck-Tim Tan,
  Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT), Vol. 11, No. 2, 2005, pp. 97-118.
• Shared-Storage E-auctioning Ensures Data Availability,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Siu-Cheung Hui, and Edmund M.-K. Lai,
  IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 8, No. 5, Sep/Oct 2004, pp.22-28.

Workshops

• Estimating the Quality of Postings in the Real-time Web,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Alexandros Ntoulas, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi,
  WSDM 2010 Workshop on Search in Social Media.
• Symphony: Enabling Search-Driven Applications,
  by John C. Shafer, Rakesh Agrawal, and Hady W. Lauw,
  VLDB 2009 Workshop on Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management.
• Leveraging Social Context for Searching Social Media,
  by Marc Smith, Vlad Barash, Lise Getoor and Hady W. Lauw,
  CIKM 2008 Workshop on Search in Social Media.
• Building a Web of Trust without Explicit Trust Ratings,
  by Young Ae Kim, Minh-Tam Le, Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, Haifeng Liu, and Jaideep Srivastava,
  ICDE 2008 Workshop on Data Engineering for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0.
• On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality,
  by Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Hady W. Lauw, and Ba-Quy Vuong,
  CIKM 2007 Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'07).
• A Multitude of Opinions: Mining Online Rating Data,
  by Hady W. Lauw and Ee-Peng Lim,
  NSF Symposium on Next-Generation Data Mining (NGDM'07).
• Mining Social Network from Spatio-Temporal Events,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, Teck-Tim Tan, and HweeHwa Pang,
  SDM 2005 Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security.