Contact Information Mailing address: Department of Computer Science & Engineering Engineering Building Unit 2, Room 351 University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Email: gmei [at] cs.ucr.edu PGP Public Key

In August 2008, I got my PhD degree at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, Riverside.

I have been working at Google Inc., Santa Monica Office as a software engineer since October 2008.

Education

• Ph.D. (2008): Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
• B.S. (2003, with honor): Chu Kochen Honors College , Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China

Research

• Research assistant in Riverside Lab for Artificial Intelligence Research
• Advisor: Dr. Christian R. Shelton
  
• Activities:
  • Filtering and visualization of collaborative data: prediction, grouping and graphical browsing.
  • Graphical models, loopy belief propagation, expectation maximization, expectation propagation, and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.
  • Embedding images using nonparametric statistics.

Publications

Guobiao Mei (2008). "Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms With Applications to Collaborative Data and Images." Doctoral dissertation, University of California at Riverside.		bib/abs
Guobiao Mei and Christian R. Shelton (2008). "Unsupervised Image Embedding Using Nonparametric Statistics." Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761051).		bib/abs
Guobiao Mei and Christian R. Shelton (2006). "Visualization of Collaborative Data." Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 341-348).		bib/abs
Titus Winters, Christian Shelton, Tom Payne and Guobiao Mei (2005). "Topic Extraction from Item-Level Grades." AAAI-05 Workshop on Educational Data Mining.

Internship

• Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2007): AdSpam & Fraud team, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043

Teaching

• Spring 2004: Teaching assistant for CS12
  
• Winter 2004: Teaching assistant for CS12
  
• Fall 2003: Teaching assistant for CS12