Contact

Office: 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Email: hady [at] hadylauw.com
Link: my page at Microsoft Research

Short Bio

I am currently a Postdoc Researcher at Search Labs, a Microsoft Research group headed by Rakesh Agrawal. My research interests are in social networks and Web search/mining. Previously, I was conferred  Ph.D. and B.Eng (1st Class) degrees by the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University.  I pursued my Ph.D. thesis in the area of social network mining from user-generated content under the supervision of Ee-Peng Lim and HweeHwa Pang.  I was also a recipient of several fellowship awards, including A*STAR Graduate Scholarship for my PhD studies and Dr Goh Keng Swee Scholarship award for my undergraduate studies.

Professional Activities

• PC Member: ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2010 (KDD'10)
• PC Member: ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2010 (EC'10)
• PC Member: Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'10)

Publications

• 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, 2010, to appear.
• 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.
• 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), 2009, to appear.
• 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.