Yunyao joined the Avatar group at IBM Research - Almaden in July 2007 after obtaining her Ph.D degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan in April 2007. Before that, she was a graduate student in the Database Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, under the guidance of Professor H. V. Jagadish. Her primary research area is Database Systems. She have broad interest in the area of database, especially in application domains with particular data management needs not easily met through traditional databases. She is particularly interested in designing, developing and analyzing systems that can improve the accessibility of information for a wide spectrum of users in a distributed, heterogeneous data environment such as the Web. Her current research towards this direction involves a number of disciplines, most notably databases, natural language processing (NLP), human-computer interaction and machine learning. She is currently the NLP Professional Interest Community Co-Chair in IBM Research - Almaden.
Before she started her Ph.D study, she obtained dual-degrees of M.S.E in Computer Science & Engineering and M.S in Information from Computer Science and Engineering and School of Information respectively at the University of Michigan. She went to college at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and graduated with dual-degrees of B.E in Automation and B.S in Economics. |
