**Huayi Li** Email: lhymvp@gmail.com   |   Cell: 312-927-1433 https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/ Experience =================================================================== 2016 ~ Present : *Google*, Mountain View,  CA
: Senior Software Engineer
: _[Query Understanding Service](https://blog-google.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/blog.google/products/search/how-ai-powers-great-search-results/amp/) for Search/Assistant/Youtube_
: _Assistant User Interaction [Signal and Ranking](https://developers.google.com/assistant/howassistantworks/responses)_
: _Search/Assistant Logging and Metrics_
2015 Summer : *Microsoft*, Bellevue,  WA
: Data Scientist Intern
: _Improve Ads relevance models via Active Learning_ 2014 Summer : *Microsoft*, Bellevue,  WA
: R&D Intern
: _Interactive Big Data Analysis platform_ 2013 Summer : *HERE Map*, Chicago,   IL
: R&D Intern
: _Anomaly Detection in Map Data Repository_ Education =================================================================== Ph.D. (2016) : *University of Illinois at Chicago, IL*   Department of Computer Science :
_Interests: Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Machine Learning_ :
Advisor: Bing Liu B.S. (2009) : *Nanjing Normal University, China*   Department of Computer Science Patents =================================================================== + *Google Defensive Patent: Quality survey integrated into a virtual Assistant*
Xiance Si, Justin Denney, *Huayi Li*, June 2019 Publications =================================================================== 1. *Huayi Li*, Geli Fei, Shuai Wang, Bing Liu, Weixiang Shao, Arjun Mukherjee, Jidong Shao. [Bimodal Distribution and Co-Bursting in Review Spam Detection](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/www17_coburst.pdf). Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2017). April 5-7, Perth, Australia 2. Geli Fei, *Huayi Li*, Bing Liu. [Opinion Spam Detection in Social Networks. Book chapter](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128044124000097) in Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks. Elsevier 2016. 3. Rachel Harsley, Bhavesh Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, *Huayi Li*. [Hit Songs' Sentiments Harness Public Mood & Predict Stock Market](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/naacl16_song_stock.pdf). Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis. (WASSA 2016). June 12-17, San Diego, USA 4. *Huayi Li*, Zhiyuan Chen, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Jidong Shao. [Analyzing and Detecting Opinion Spam on a Large-scale Dataset via Temporal and Spatial Patterns](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/icwsm15_dianping.pdf). Proceedings of Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2015), May 26-29, Oxford, UK. 5. *Huayi Li*, Arjun Mukherjee, Jianfeng Si, Bing Liu. [Extracting Verb Expressions Implying Negative Opinions](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/aaai15_verbsenti.pdf). Proceedings of Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), January 25-29, Austin, USA 6. *Huayi Li*, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Rachel Kornfield, Sherry Emery. [Detecting Campaign Promoters on Twitter using Markov Random Fields](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/icdm14_campaign.pdf). Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014), December 14-17, Shenzhen, China. 7. *Huayi Li*, Zhiyuan Chen, Bing Liu, Xiaokai Wei, Jidong Shao. [Spotting Fake Reviews via Collective Positive-Unlabeled Learning](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/icdm14_cpu.pdf). Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014), December 14-17, Shenzhen, China. 8. *Huayi Li*, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Jidong Shao. [Spotting Fake Reviews using Positive-Unlabeled Learning](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/pu_spam.pdf). Journal of Computación y Sistemas 2014. 9. Jianfeng Si, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Qing Li, *Huayi Li*. [Exploiting Social Relations and Sentiment for Stock Prediction](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/emnlp14_socialstock.pdf). Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), October 25-29, Doha, Qatar. 10. Jianfeng Si, Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Qing Li, *Huayi Li*, Xiaotie Deng. [Exploiting Topic based Twitter Sentiment for Stock Prediction](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/acl13_topicstock.pdf). Proceedings of The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), August 4-9, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. 11. *Huayi Li*. [Detecting Opinion Spam in Commercial Review Websites](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~hli/docs/thesis.pdf). Ph.D. Thesis (University of Illinois at Chicago, 2016). Skills ======================================================================= - Languages: C/C++, Python, Go, Java. - Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite. - Big Data: Dremel, Flume. - Machine Learning: Tensorflow. - Web Developments: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flask. Services ======================================================================= Program Committees and Paper Reviewing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |AAAI | 2017, 2018 | |--------------------------------|--------------------| |*EMNLP* | *2016* | |*CIKM* | *2016* | |*TKDE* | *2016* | |*DMKD* | *2016* | |*TWEB* | *2015, 2016, 2017* | |*Computer Speech and Language* | *2016* | |*The Computer Journal* | *2015, 2016* | Community Contribution (in Google) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- + #1 contributor to one of Q&A forums: Search and NLP Logging and Metrics + Creator and owner of Google's text [ProtoBuffer](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers)'s Tree Viewer + Mentored 4 Junior Software Engineers + Interviewed 30+ candidates + Referred 6 candidates Honors and Awards ======================================================================= + *7* Google Spot Bonus Awards from Engineering Managers and Directors, 2016 ~ 2021 + *27* Google Peer Bonus Awards and Kudos from Partners and Client teams, 2016 ~ 2021 + UIC Student Presenter Award, June 2015 + AAAI Intl Conference on Web & Social Media (ICWSM) Student Grant Award, May 2015 + UIC Graduate Student Council Travel Award, February 2015 + IEEE Intl Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Travel Award, October 2014 + Outstanding student in Nanjing Normal University, November 2008 (top 10) + Software Scholarship awarded by Jiangsu Province Government, September 2008 (top 1%) + China's National Innovation Scholarship, December 2007 (top 5%)