刘铁岩博士，现任微软亚洲研究院研究项目主管(lead researcher)。他是排序学习领域的知名专家，已在国际顶级期刊和会议上发表相关论文70余篇。他著有专著《信息检索中的排序学习问题》和《高阶异构数据挖掘》。他持有50余项美国专利或申请。他的论文曾获得国际信息检索大会(SIGIR)最佳学生论文奖，和国际期刊《视觉通信和图像表示》的最高引用论文奖。他是国际计算机辅助搜索会议(RIAO) 2010年度的程序委员会主席，国际信息检索大会(SIGIR)2008和2009年度的领域主席(Area Chair)，亚洲信息检索会议(AIRS) 2009年度的领域主席。同时他还担任国际期刊《信息检索》的编委(Editorial Board Member)，和数十个国际期刊的审稿专家。他是包括WWW, SIGIR, ICML, ACL, ICIP等在内的三十几个国际会议的程序委员会成员(Program Committee Member)，是国际排序学习研讨会(LR4IR)2007，2008，和2009年度的联合主席(Co-chair)，是《信息检索》期刊的排序学习特刊的客座主编(Guest Editor)。他曾经在WWW和SIGIR等国际会议上做关于排序学习的主题讲座(tutorial)。刘铁岩毕业于清华大学电子工程系，加入微软之前从事视频信息处理方面的研究工作。

　　刘铁岩博士的代表作如下:

Learning to Rank

　　1. Tie-Yan Liu. Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval, Foundation and Trends on Information Retrieval, Now Publishers, 2009.

　　2. Fen Xia, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Statistical Consistency of Top-k Ranking, NIPS 2009.

　　3. Wei Chen, Tie-Yan Liu, Yanyan Lan, Zhiming Ma, Hang Li, Ranking Measures and Loss Functions in Learning to Rank, NIPS 2009.

　　4. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xudong Zhang, and Hang Li. Global Ranking Using Continuous Conditional Random Fields, NIPS 2008.

　　5. Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, and Hang Li. Generalization Analysis of Listwise Learning to Rank Algorithms, ICML 2009.

　　6. Fen Xia, Tie-Yan Liu, Jue Wang, Wensheng Zhang, and Hang Li. Listwise Approach to Learning to Rank: Theorem and Algorithm, ICML 2008.

　　7. Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, and Hang Li. Query-level Stability and Generalization in Learning to Rank, ICML 2008.

　　8. Zhe Cao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Ming-Feng Tsai, and Hang Li. Learning to Rank: From Pairwise Approach to Listwise Approach. ICML 2007.

　　9. Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Andrew Arnold, Hang Li, and Heung-Yeung Shum. Query-dependent Ranking using K-Nearest Neighbor, SIGIR 2008.

　　10. Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, and Wei-Ying Ma. Directly Optimizing IR Evaluation Measures in Learning to Rank, SIGIR 2008.

　　11. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, and Hang Li. Making LETOR More Useful and Reliable, LR4IR 2008, in conjunction with SIGIR 2008.

　　12. Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, and Hang Li. Feature Selection for Ranking, SIGIR 2007.

　　13. Mingfeng Tsai, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, and Wei-Ying Ma. FRank: A Ranking Method with Fidelity Loss, SIGIR 2007.

　　14. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Wei Lai, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang, and Hang Li. Ranking with Multiple Hyperplanes, SIGIR 2007.

　　15. Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, Tao Qin, Wenying Xiong, and Hang Li. LETOR: Benchmark dataset for research on learning to rank for information retrieval, LR4IR 2007, in conjunction with SIGIR 2007.

　　16. Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Huang and Hsiao-Wuen Hon. Adapting Ranking SVM to Document Retrieval, SIGIR 2006.

　　17. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang, Wen-Ying Xiong, and Hang Li. Learning to Rank Relational Objects and Its Application to Web Search, WWW 2008. Yuting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhi-Ming Ma, and Hang Li. Supervised Rank Aggregation, WWW 2007.

　　18. Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Ming-Feng Tsai, De-Sheng Wang, Tie-Yan Liu, and Hang Li. Query-level Loss Function for Information Retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 2007.

Web Search

　　1. Yuting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, and Hang Li. A Framework to Compute Page Importance based on User Behaviors, Information Retrieval Journal, 2009.

　　2. Yuting Liu, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Zhang, Zhiming Ma, Shuyuan He, and Hang Li. BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance, SIGIR 2008. [SIGIR Best Student Paper Award]

　　3. Guang Feng, Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Wang, Ting Bao, Zhiming Ma, Xu-Dong Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma. AggregateRank: Bringing Order to Websites, SIGIR 2006.

　　4. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang, Zheng Chen, and Wei-Ying Ma. A Study on Relevance Propagation for Web Search, SIGIR 2005.

　　5. Qiankun Zhao, Chuhong Hoi, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav Bhowmick, Michael Lyu, and Wei-Ying Ma. Time-Dependent Semantic Similarity Measure of Queries Using Historical Click-Through Data, WWW 2006.

　　6. Qiankun Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav Bhowmick, and Wei-Ying Ma. Event Detection from Evolution of Click-through Data, KDD 2006.

　　7. Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Xin Zheng, Qian-Sheng Cheng, and Wei-Ying Ma. Consistent Bipartite Graph Co-Partitioning for Star-Structured High-Order Heterogeneous Data Co-Clustering, KDD 2005.

　　8. Ying Bao, Guang Feng*, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, and Ying Wang. Ranking Websites: A Probabilistic View, Internet Mathematics, 2007.

　　9. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Guang Geng, De-Sheng Wang, and Wei-Ying Ma. Topic Distillation Via Subsite Retrieval, Information Processing and Management, 2006.

　　10. Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Guang Feng, Tao Qin, Qian-Sheng Cheng, and Wei-Ying Ma. Hierarchical Taxonomy Preparation for Text Categorization Using Consistent Bipartite Spectral Graph Co-partitioning, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 2005.

　　11. Tie-Yan Liu, Yiming Yang, Hao Wan, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, and Wei-Ying Ma. Support Vector Machines Classification with Very Large Scale Taxonomy, SIGKDD Explorations, 2005.

Multimedia

　　1. Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu, and Hong-Jiang Zhang. An Active Feedback Framework for Image Retrieval, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2007.

　　2. Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Qian-Sheng Cheng, and Wei-Ying Ma. Web Image Clustering by Consistent Utilization of Visual Features and Surrounding Texts, ACM Multimedia 2005.

　　3. Tie-Yan Liu, Kwok-Tung Lo, Xu-Dong Zhang, and Jian Feng. A New Cut Detection Algorithm with Constant False-Alarm Ratio for Video Segmentation, Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, 2004. [Most Cited Paper Award]

　　4. Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Jian Feng, and Kwok-Tung Lo. Shot Reconstruction Degree: a Novel Criterion for Key Frame Selection, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2004.

　　5. Tie-Yan Liu, Kwok-Tung Lo, Jian Feng, and Xu-Dong Zhang. Frame Interpolation Scheme Using Inertia Motion Prediction. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2003.

　　6. Tie-Yan Liu, Jian Feng, Xu-Dong Zhang, and Kwok-Tung Lo. Inertia-based Cut Detection and Its Integration with Video Coder. IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, 2003..

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