Hady W. Lauw 

Contact

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

Bio

Hady is currently a postdoc at Microsoft Search Labs in Mountain View, California.  Previously, he pursued his Ph.D. and B.Eng (1st Class) degrees at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  His Ph.D. thesis was in the area of social network mining from user-generated content, and was pursued under the supervision of Dr Ee-Peng Lim and Dr HweeHwa Pang.  Hady was a recipient of several fellowship awards, including A*STAR Graduate Scholarship for his graduate studies and Dr Goh Keng Swee Scholarship award for his undergraduate studies. His research interests include social network mining and Web search.

Publications

• 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, Vol. 20, No. 11, Nov 2008, pp. 1490-1504.
• 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 (SSM'08), Oct 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. 
• 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,
  Workshop on Data Engineering for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0 at ICDE'08, Apr 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.
• On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality,
  by Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Hady W. Lauw, and Ba-Quy Vuong,
  ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'07), Nov 2007.
• 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.
• 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), Oct 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, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2005, pp. 97-118.
• Mining Social Network from Spatio-Temporal Events,
  by Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, Teck-Tim Tan, and HweeHwa Pang,
  Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security at SDM'05, Apr 2005.
• 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.