Olympic National Park, Washington

Shaodian Zhang            

Columbia Ph.D. Student
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University 		Address: 622 West 168 Street, VC, Room 531
New York, NY 10032
Email: shaodian AT dbmi.columbia.edu

Biography

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics of Columbia University. My supervisor is Prof. Noemie Elhadad.

I received my B.E. degree in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I was also a member of the ACM Honored Class. I have been fortunate to work with Prof. Hai Zhao on natural language processing.

I visited the Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia as an intern in 2010, and was working in Natural Language Processing Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA as a summer intern in 2012.

Here you can find my curriculum vitae: [updated in: Dec 2012]

Research summary

An overall goal of my research is bridging the chasm between computer science techniques and biomedical practice. General natural language processing and data mining algorithms are revised to be utilized in biomedical settings. My research interests also include foundational issues in machine learning and natural language processing.

Publications

  • Xiaohua Liu, Shaodian Zhang, Furu Wei and Ming Zhou, Recognizing Named Entities in Tweets, in Proceedings of ACL 2011. [pdf]
  • Shaodian Zhang, Hai Zhao, Guodong Zhou and Bao-liang Lu, Hedge Detection and Scope Finding by Sequence Labeling with Normalized Feature Selection, in Proceedings of CoNLL 2010. [pdf]

Appointments

  • Sep 2011 - present   Graduate research assistant, DBMI, Columbia University
  • May 2012 - Aug 2012  Intern, Natural Language Processing Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond
  • Oct 2010 - Jan 2011  Intern, Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing

Professional Service

  • 2011, Guest reviewer for Information Retrieval journal

Personal

I play soccer and table tennis.

I travel and photograph.

I read political philosophy and history.

I enjoy classical music.

since Sep 23th, 2011