Wei-Ying Ma is a Huiyan Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and the Chief Scientist at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), which he co-founded with Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang in 2020. Currently, he is leading a team of faculties to work on AI for Science, with a particular focus on AI-powered drug discovery and generative AI for biology and chemistry. In addition, he has co-founded Helixon, a startup aimed at developing next-generation AI for antibody design and protein therapeutics discovery. From 2021-2023, he served as the Director of Health Computing Research Center with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).
Wei-Ying Ma is a Fellow of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. He has published more than 300 papers and has been granted with 169 patents. In the past, he has served as a program co-chair of the International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) 2008 and the general co-chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2011. He has also served on many editorial boards, including ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) from 2005-2012, the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal from 2004-2012, and the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications from 1998-2004. Additionally, Wei-Ying Ma was a member of International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee from 2010-2016, responsible for the publicity and organization of the conference in different countries and locations.
Prior to joining Tsinghua University, Wei-Ying Ma was a Vice President and the Head of AI Lab at ByteDance. He founded ByteDance AI Lab in 2017 and was responsible for research and technology development in areas including machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, speech and audio processing, recommender system and search. He led ByteDance AI Lab to develop various AI-powered content creation and content dissemination technologies and systems which have been integrated into ByteDance's products including Douyin, TikTok, Jinri Toutiao, CapCut and Lark. Wei-Ying Ma and his teams made an important contribution to the phenomenal success of Douyin and TikTok, which have revolutionized how people create and share content from their mobile phones through AI technology. As of 2023, TikTok has reached over 1.1 billion monthly active users globally and Douyin has over 700 million daily active users in China. These products have reshaped the landscape of the Internet industry.
During his time at ByteDance, Wei-Ying Ma recruited over 300 researchers and built labs in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Mountain View, Seattle, London, and Singapore. His notable works include industry-leading machine learning models capable of running on mobile devices to support on-device content analysis, enabling many automatic video and audio/music editing features. He also developed large-scale video analysis systems that run distributed machine learning models in datacenters, capable of processing an extremely large volume of short-form videos created by TikTok and Douyin users. Additionally, Wei-Ying Ma created music generation and recommendation based on video content, speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis techniques, and text and image generation techniques that facilitate content creation and advertisement design for ByteDance products. For his work at ByteDance, Wei-Ying Ma received the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award, a prestigious award in China.
Before joining ByteDance, Wei-Ying Ma worked at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) from 2001 to 2017. During his time at MSRA, he was an Assistant Managing Director from 2009-2017 and managed five research groups including Web Search and Data Mining, Natural Language Computing, Machine Learning, Social Computing, and Urban Computing. From 2005-2009, he led his teams to consistently contribute 5-10% of full papers on web-search related topics at the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference, the International World Wide Web (WWW) conference, and the ACM Multimedia conference. These research contributions made his team one of the global powerhouses and trendsetters in these fields.
At Microsoft, Wei-Ying Ma led his team to develop many technologies that were successfully transferred to Microsoft’s Bing, Ads Center, Cognitive Services, Exchange, SharePoint, Azure, as well as Microsoft’s conversational agents including Xiaoice (in China) and Cortana. He also contributed to the establishment of Microsoft’s Search Technology Center (STC) in China. In 2009, he was awarded the Management Excellence Trailblazer Award, a recognition given to individuals who have gone above and beyond their duty to advance Management Excellence at Microsoft. Furthermore, he and his team developed the first technique to analyze web pages using visual cues and use the information to model the web and extract structured data from web pages. He also led the initial development of Microsoft Academic Search, an object-level search engine that provides automatic summaries of entities and allows users to navigate and explore their relationships. These techniques have been widely adopted by commercial search engines and academic web services in recent years.
Among his other important works at Microsoft, Wei-Ying Ma developed the Microsoft Graph Engine, a powerful graph processing engine designed to serve a large knowledge graph for web search and natural language understanding. He also played a key role in creating the Microsoft Concept Graph, which contains a big graph of concepts and facts/instances extracted from billions of web pages and years' worth of Bing search logs. Additionally, Wei-Ying Ma led the development of the Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit, making machine learning tasks involving big data highly efficient and scalable. He received many Ship-It Awards at Microsoft and was granted over 160 patents that contributed to core intellectual properties of Microsoft's Bing and many other products.
From 1997-2001, Wei-Ying Ma worked in HP Labs at Hewlett-Packard Company on multimedia analysis and adaptive content delivery systems to transcode videos at edge servers according to the capability of the user's device.
Wei-Ying Ma received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1997. He was supervised by Prof. B. S. Manjunath, and his dissertation is titled "Netra: A Toolbox for Navigating Large Image Databases." He performed works in the Alexandria Digital Library Project funded by National Science Foundation from 1994-1997 and developed one of the first content-based image retrieval systems on the Web (called Netra) that has been viewed as one of the most influential image retrieval systems. He also developed widely used Gabor texture features for image retrieval, and one of the first practical image segmentation solutions for processing a large number and variety of natural scene images, which enables image retrieval systems to provide region-based search capability.
Wei-Ying Ma received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1990 and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1994.
He was awarded Distinguished Alumni from the school of EECS at National Tsing Hua University in 2010. Wei-Ying Ma received the honor to deliver a Distinguished Lecture titled "the Next Frontier for Web Search and Knowledge Mining: My Journey since Alexandria Digital Library Project at UCSB" at UCSB for ECE Dept. 50th Anniversary in 2013.
You can visit him on LinkedIn or find his publications at Google Scholar.
My Recent Talks:
· “AI for Science” at Tsinghua University – AIR Seminar (in Chinese)
· "Democratizing Content Creation and Dissemination through AI Technology" Keynote speech at The Web Conference 2020
Recent Papers:
Qiu K, Song Y, Fan Z, Liu P, Zhang Z, Zheng M, Zhao H, Wei-Ying Ma. Piloting Structure-Based Drug Design via Modality-Specific Optimal Schedule, ICLR 2025.
Song Y, Shi J, Gong J, Xu M, Stefano Ermon, Zhou H, Wei-Ying Ma. Smooth Interpolation for Improved Discrete Graph Generative Models, ICML 2025.
Qiu K, Song Y, Yu J, Ma H, Cao Z, Zhang Z, Wu Y, Zheng M, Zhou H, Wei-Ying Ma. Empower Structure-based Molecule Optimization with Gradient Guidance, ICML 2025.
Ni,Y., Feng,S., Hong,X., Sun,Y., Wei-Ying Ma, Ma,Z., Ye,Q., & Lan,Y., Pre-training with Fractional Denoising to Enhance Molecular Property Prediction, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024.
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Yang, J., Zheng, K., Long, S., Dai, X., Zhang, M., Nie, Z., Wei-Ying Ma, Zhou, H. Mol-AE: Auto-Encoder Based Molecular Representation Learning With 3D Cloze Test Objective, ICML 2024.
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Zheng, K., Long, S., Lu T., Yang, J., Dai, X., Zhang, M., Nie, Z., Wei-Ying Ma, Zhou, H. Multi-Scale Protein Language Model for Unified Molecular Modeling, ICML 2024.
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Gao, B., Ren, M., Ni, Y., Huang, Y., Qiang, B., Ma, Z., Wei-Ying Ma, & Lan, Y. Rethinking Specificity in SBDD: Leveraging Delta Score and Energy-Guided Diffusion, ICML 2024.
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Qu, Y., Qiu, K., Song, Y., Gong, J., Han, J., Zheng, M., Zhou H., Wei-Ying Ma. MolCRAFT: Structure-Based Drug Design in Continuous Parameter Space, ICML 2024.
Feng,S., Ni,Y., Li,M., Huang,Y., Ma,Z., Wei-Ying Ma, &Lan,Y., UniCorn: A Unified Contrastive Learning Approach for Multi-view Molecular Representation Learning, ICML 2024.
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Song, Y., Gong, J., Qu, Y., Zheng, M., Zhou, H., Liu, J., & Wei-Ying Ma. Unified generative modeling of 3D molecules with Bayesian flow networks, ICLR 2024 (oral presentation, top 1.2%).
Gao, B., Jia, Y., Mo, Y., Ni, Y., Wei-Ying Ma, Ma, Z., & Lan, Y. Self-supervised pocket pretraining via protein fragment-surroundings alignment, ICLR 2024.
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Ni, Y., Feng, S., Wei-Ying Ma, Ma, Z., Lan, Y. Sliced denoising: a physics-informed molecular pre-training method, ICLR 2024.
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Bowen Gao, Bo Qiang, Haichuan Tan, Yinjun Jia, Minsi Ren, Minsi Lu, Jingjing Liu, Wei-Ying Ma, Yanyan Lan. DrugCLIP: Contrastive Protein-Molecule Representation Learning for Virtual Screening, NeurIPS 2023.
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Yuxuan Song, Jingjing Gong, Minkai Xu, Ziyao Cao, Yanyan Lan, Stefano Ermon, Hao Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma. Equivariant Flow Matching with Hybrid Probability Transport for 3D Molecule Generation, NeurIPS 2023.
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Guo Pu, Yifang Men, Yiming Mao, Yuning Jiang, Wei-Ying Ma, Zhouhui Lian. Controllable Image Synthesis With Attribute-Decomposed GAN. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 45(2): 1514-1532, 2023.
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Shikun Feng, Yuyan Ni, Yanyan Lan, Zhi-Ming Ma, Wei-Ying Ma. Fractional Denoising for 3D Molecular Pre-training. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), pp. 9938-9961.
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Bo Qiang, Yuxuan Song, Minkai Xu, Jingjing Gong, Bowen Gao, Hao Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma, Yanyan Lan. Coarse-to-Fine: a Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Molecule Generation in 3D. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023): 28277-28299.
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Yuancheng Sun, Yimeng Chen, Weizhi Ma, Wenhao Huang, Kang Liu, Zhiming Ma, Wei-Ying Ma, Yanyan Lan. PEMP: Leveraging Physics Properties to Enhance Molecular Property Prediction. CIKM 2022: 3505-3513.
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Jiaqi Guan, Wesley Wei Qian, Qiang Liu, Wei-Ying Ma, Jianzhu Ma, Jian Peng. Energy-Inspired Molecular Conformation Optimization. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022.
Selected Publications
Journal Papers (Ranked by Citations)
1. B. S. Manjunath and Wei-Ying Ma. Texture features for browsing and retrieval of image data. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 18, No. 8, pp. 837-842. Aug 1996.
2. Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath. Netra: A toolbox for navigating large image databases. IEEE Multimedia Systems. Vol. 7, pp. 184-198, May 1999.
3. Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath. EdgeFlow: a technique for boundary detection and image segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 1375-1388, Aug 2000.
4. Xiaofei He, Oliver King, Wei-Ying Ma, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang. Learning a semantic space from user's relevance feedback for image retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 13 (1), pp. 39-48, Jan 2003.
5. Ying Liu, D. Zhang, G. Lu, Wei-Ying Ma. A survey of content-based image retrieval with high-level semantics. Pattern Recognition 40 (1), pp. 262-282, 2007.
6. Yu Zheng, L. Zhang, Z. Ma, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Recommending friends and locations based on individual location history. ACM Transactions on the Web 5 (1), pp. 1-44, 2011.
7. Li-Qun Chen, Xing Xie, X. Fan, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, H.Q. Zhou. A visual attention model for adapting images on small displays. Multimedia Systems (Springer-Verlag), pp. 353-364, 2003.
8. Hang Cui, Ji-Rong Wen, J.Y. Nie, Wei-Ying Ma. Query expansion by mining user logs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 15 (4), pp. 829-839, 2003.
9. Guo-Dong Guo, Anil K Jain, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Learning similarity measure for natural image retrieval with relevance feedback. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 13 (4), pp. 811-820, 2002.
10. Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, X. Li, Wei-Ying Ma. Annotating images by mining image search results. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 30 (11), pp. 1919-1932, 2008.
11. Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath. A texture thesaurus for browsing large aerial photographs. Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 633-648, 1998.
12. Yu Chen, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Adapting web pages for small-screen devices. IEEE Internet Computing Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 50-56, 2005.
13. Sung-Ju Lee, Wei-Ying Ma, Bo Shen. An interactive video delivery and caching system using video summarization. Computer Communications, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 424-435, 2002.
14. Xiaofei He; D. Cai, J.R. Wen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Clustering and searching WWW images using link and page layout analysis. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.10-es, 2007.
15. Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath. Texture-based pattern retrieval from image databases, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 2, pp. 35-51, 1996.
16. Xing Xie, H. Liu, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Browsing large pictures under limited display sizes. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 707-715, 2006.
17. Xing Xie, Lie Lu, Menglei Jia, Hua Li, Hua, Frank Seide, Wei-Ying Ma. Mobile search with multimodal queries. Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 589-601, 2008.
18. Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, G. Feng, T. Qin, Q. S. Cheng, Wei-Ying Ma. Hierarchical taxonomy preparation for text categorization using consistent bipartite spectral graph co-partitioning. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 1263-1273, 2005.
19. Tao Qin, X.D. Zhang, T.Y. Liu, D.S. Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. An active feedback framework for image retrieval. Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 637-646, 2008.
20. Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Changshui Zhang. Manifold-ranking-based keyword propagation for image retrieval. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2006.
21. Shen Huang, Zheng Chen, Yu Zheng, Yong Yu, Wei-Ying Ma. Multitype features co-selection for web document clustering. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 448-459, 2006.
22. Xiangye Xiao, Qiong Luo, Dan Hong, Hongbo Fu, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Browsing on small displays by transforming web pages into hierarchically structured subpages. ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-36, 2009.
23. Zhigang Hua, X. Xie, H. Liu, H. Lu, Wei-Ying Ma. Design and performance studies of an adaptive scheme for serving dynamic web content in a mobile computing environment. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 1650-1662, 2006.
24. Shaozhi Ye, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. A systematic study on parameter correlations in large-scale duplicate document detection. Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol. 14, pp. 217-232, 2008.
25. Lei Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Nenghai Yu, Wei-Ying Ma, Shipeng Li. Flickr distance: a relationship measure for visual concepts. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 863-875, 2011.
26. Wenyin Liu; Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, Hongjiang Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Ubiquitous media agents: a framework for managing personally accumulated multimedia files. Multimedia Systems, Vol. 9, pp. 144-156, 2003.
27. Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Xing Li. Exploring statistical correlations for image retrieval. Multimedia Systems, Vol. 11, pp. 340-351, 2006.
28. Xiangye Xiao, Qiong Luo, Zhisheng Li, Xie, Xing, Wei-Ying Ma. A large-scale study on map search logs. ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 1-33, 2010.
29. Xing Xie, Chong Wang, Li-Qun Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. An adaptive web page layout structure for small devices. Multimedia Systems, Vol. 11, pp. 34-44, 2005.
30. Yalong Bai, K. Yang, T. Mei, Wei-Ying Ma, T.J. Zhao. Automatic data augmentation from massive Web images for deep visual recognition. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 1-20, 2018.
Conference and Workshop Papers (Ranked by Citations)
1. Hua-Jun Zeng, Qi-Cai He, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Jinwen Ma. Learning to cluster web search results. Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2004, 210-217.
2. Fuzheng Zhang, Jing Yuan, Defu Lian, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Collaborative knowledge base embedding for recommender systems. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2016, 353-362.
3. Di He, Y. Xia, T. Qin, L. Wang, N. Yu, Tie-Yan Liu, Wei-Ying Ma. Dual learning for machine translation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol 29, 2016.
4. Yu Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Detecting web page structure for adaptive viewing on small form factor devices. International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2003: 225-233.
5. Deng Cai, S. Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. VIPS: a vision-based page segmentation algorithm. Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2003-79, 2003.
6. Shipeng Yu, Deng Cai, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Improving pseudo-relevance feedback in web information retrieval using web page segmentation. International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2003: 11-18.
7. Hang Cui, Ji-Rong Wen, Jian-Yun Nie, Wei-Ying Ma. Probabilistic query expansion using query logs. International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2002: 325-332.
8. Ruihua Song, Haifeng Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Learning block importance models for web pages. International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2004: 203-211.
9. Yu Zheng, Lei Zhang, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Mining interesting locations and travel sequences from GPS trajectories. The 18th international conference on World Wide Web 2009, 791-800.
10. Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. GeoLife: A collaborative social networking service among user, location and trajectory. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 33(2), 32-39.
11. Yu Zheng, Q. Li, Y. Chen, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Understanding mobility based on GPS data. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 2008, 312-321.
12. Quannan Li, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Y. Chen, W. Liu, Wei-Ying Ma. Mining user similarity based on location history. Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2008, 1-10.
13. Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Extracting content structure for web pages based on visual representation. 5th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2003, 406-417.
14. Chen Xing, W. Wu, Y. Wu, J. Liu, Y. Huang, M. Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma. Topic aware neural response generation. Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence 31 (1), 2017.
15. Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Ji-Rong Wen. Hierarchical clustering of www image search results using visual, textual and link information. Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, 952-959.
16. Tao Liu, S. Liu, Z. Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. An evaluation on feature selection for text clustering. Proceedings of the 20th international conference on machine learning, 488-495.
17. Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Object-level ranking: bringing order to web objects. Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web 2005, 567-574.
18. Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Feng Jing, Wei-Ying Ma. Annosearch: Image auto-annotation by search. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2006, 1483-1490.
19. Ruihua Song, H. Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Learning block importance models for web pages. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web 2004, 203-211.
20. Yinghua Zhou, Xing Xie, C. Wang, Y. Gong, Wei-Ying Ma. Hybrid index structures for location-based web search. Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 155-162.
21. Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath. Texture features and learning similarity. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1996, 425-430.
22. Steven CH Hoi, W. Liu, M.R. Lyu, Wei-Ying Ma. Learning distance metrics with contextual constraints for image retrieval. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2006, 2072-2078.
23. Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath. Edge flow: a framework of boundary detection and image segmentation. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1997, 744-749.
24. Gui-Rong Xue, H.J. Zeng, Z. Chen, Y. Yu, Wei-Ying Ma, W.S .Xi, W.G. Fan. Optimizing web search using web click-through data. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2004, 118-126.
25. Tie-Yan Liu, Y. Yang, H. Wan, H.J. Zeng, Z. Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. Support vector machines classification with a very large-scale taxonomy. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter 7 (1), 36-43.
26. Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath. A comparison of wavelet transform features for texture image annotation. Proceedings., International Conference on Image Processing 1995, Vol. 2, 256-259.
27. Dou Shen, Z. Chen, Q. Yang, Hong-Jiang Zeng, B. Zhang, Y. Lu, Wei-Ying Ma. Web-page classification through summarization. Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2004, 242-249.
28. X. Marichal, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Blur determination in the compressed domain using DCT information. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 1999, 386-390.
29. Yu Zheng, Y. Chen, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. GeoLife2. 0: a location-based social networking service. The 10th international conference on mobile data management: systems, services and middleware 2009, 357-358.
30. Benyu Zhang, H. Li, Y. Liu, L. Ji, W.S. Xi, W. Fan, Z. Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. Improving web search results using affinity graph. Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR Conference 2005, 504-511.
31. Jiying Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, F. Lochovsky, Wei-Ying Ma. Instance-based schema matching for web databases by domain-specific query probing. VLDB 2004, Vol. 4, 408-419.
32. Deng Cai, S. Yu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Block-based web search. Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2004, 456-463.
33. Deng Cai, X. He, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Block-level link analysis. Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2004, 440-447.
34. Zhiwei Li, Bin Wang, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma. A probabilistic model for retrospective news event detection. Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2005, 106-113.
35. Jun Zhu, Z.Q. Nie, J.R. Wen, B. Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Simultaneous record detection and attribute labeling in web data extraction. Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2006, 494-503.
36. Xiaofei He, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Learning an image manifold for retrieval. Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2004, 17-23.
37. Hao Liu, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Automatic browsing of large pictures on mobile devices. Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2003, 148-155.
38. Jinhui Yuan, F. Gao, Q. Ho, W. Dai, J. Wei, X. Zheng, E.P. Xing, Tie-Yan Liu, Wei-Ying Ma. LightLDA: Big topic models on modest computer clusters. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, 1351-1361.
39. Lei Wu, XS Hua, N Yu, Wei-Ying Ma, S. Li. Flickr distance. Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008, 31-40.
40. Ming-Feng Tsai, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. Frank: a ranking method with fidelity loss. Proceedings of the 30th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2007, 389-390.
41. Patrick Baudisch, Xing Xie, Chong Wang, Wei-Ying Ma. Collapse-to-zoom: viewing web pages on small screen devices by interactively removing irrelevant content. Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 91-94.
42. Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, T. Qin, X. Zheng, Q.S. Cheng, Wei-Ying Ma. Web image clustering by consistent utilization of visual features and surrounding texts. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2005, 112-121.
43. Zaiqing Nie, Y. Ma, S. Shi, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Web object retrieval. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web 2007, 81-90.
44. Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Benchmarking of image features for content-based retrieval. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Vol. 1, pp. 253-257, 1998
45. Jun Zhu, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong Wen, Bo Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. 2d conditional random fields for web information extraction. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning 2005, 1044-1051.
46. Ping Wu, Ji-Rong Wen, H. Liu, Wei-Ying Ma. Query selection techniques for efficient crawling of structured web sources. The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering 2006, 47-47.
47. Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, X. Zheng, Q. S. Cheng, Wei-Ying Ma. Consistent bipartite graph co-partitioning for star-structured high-order heterogeneous data co-clustering. Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining 2005, 41-50.
48. Wei-Ying Ma, I. Bedner, G. Chang, A. Kuchinsky, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Framework for adaptive content delivery in heterogeneous network environments. Multimedia Computing and Networking 2000, Vol. 3969, 86-100.
49. J. Liu, B. Wang, M. Li, Z. Li, Wei-Ying Ma, H. Lu, S. Ma. Dual cross-media relevance model for image annotation. Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 605-614.
50. Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Zhang, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. A probabilistic semantic model for image annotation and multimodal image retrieval. 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2005, Vol. 1, 846-851.
51. Y. Men, Y Mao, Y Jiang, Wei-Ying Ma, Z. Lian. Controllable person image synthesis with attribute-decomposed gan. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2020, 5084-5093.
52. Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Object-level Vertical Search. CIDR 2007, 235-246.
53. Jidong Wang, H. Zeng, Z. Chen, H. Lu, L. Tao, Wei-Ying Ma. Recom: reinforcement clustering of multi-type interrelated data objects. Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2003, 274-281.
54. J. Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, M. Lu, H. Li, Wei-Ying Ma. Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank. Proceedings of the 31st International ACM SIGIR Conference 2008, 107-114.
55. Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. IGROUP: web image search results clustering. Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2006, 377-384.
56. Yu Zheng, L. Wang, R. Zhang, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. GeoLife: Managing and understanding your past life over maps. The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Data Management 2008, 211-212.
57. M. Zhang, L. Zhang, Y. Sun, L. Feng, Wei-Ying Ma. Auto cropping for digital photographs. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2005.
58. Y. Hu, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, L.T. Chia, D. Rajan. Salient region detection using weighted feature maps based on the human visual attention model. 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia 2004. Part II 5, 993-1000.
59. Xiaofei He, D. Cai, H. Liu, Wei-Ying Ma. Locality preserving indexing for document representation. Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2004, 96-103.
60. B. Wang, Z. Li, M. Li, Wei-Ying Ma. Large-scale duplicate detection for web image search. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2006, 353-356.
61. X. Li, L. Chen, L. Zhang, F. Lin, Wei-Ying Ma. Image annotation by large-scale content-based image retrieval. Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2006, 607-610.
62. Jun Yan, N. Liu, B. Zhang, S. Yan, Z. Chen, Q. Cheng, W. Fan, Wei-Ying Ma. OCFS: optimal orthogonal centroid feature selection for text categorization. Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2005, 122-129.
63. Xin Zheng, D. Cai, X. He, Wei-Ying Ma, X. Lin. Locality preserving clustering for image database. Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2005, 885-891.
64. L. Wang, C. Wang, X. Xie, J. Forman, Y. Lu, Wei-Ying Ma, Y. Li. Detecting dominant locations from search queries. Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2005, 424-431.
65. C.S. Lee, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Information embedding based on user's relevance feedback for image retrieval. SPIE Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems 1999, IV 3846, 294-304.
66. H. Tong, J. He, M. Li, C. Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Graph based multi-modality learning. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2005, 862-871.
67. Wei-Ying Ma, Yining Deng, B. S. Manjunath. Tools for texture-and color-based search of images. SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging II 1997, Vol. 3016, 496-507.
68. C. Wang, J. Wang, X. Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Mining geographic knowledge using location aware topic model. Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval 2007, 65-70.
69. T. Liu, Z. Chen, B. Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, G. Wu. Improving text classification using local latent semantic indexing. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2004, 162-169.
70. R. Cai, C. Zhang, C. Wang, L. Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Musicsense: contextual music recommendation using emotional allocation modeling. Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2007, 553-556.
71. H. Wu, J. Mao, Y. Zhang, Y. Jiang, L. Li, W. Sun, Wei-Ying Ma. Unified visual-semantic embeddings: Bridging vision and language with structured meaning representations. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019, 6609-6618.
72. Rongrong Ji, X. Xie, H. Yao, Wei-Ying Ma. Mining city landmarks from blogs by graph modeling. Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2009, 105-114.
73. Hao Liu, X. Xie, X. Tang, Z.W. Li, Wei-Ying Ma. Effective browsing of web image search results. Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia 2004, 84-90.
74. Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, G.R. Xue, X. Li. Multi-model similarity propagation and its application for web image retrieval. Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2004, 944-951.
75. G.R. Xue, H.J. Zeng, Z. Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, C.J. Lu. Implicit link analysis for small web search. Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2003, 56-63.
76. C. Wang, X. Xie, L. Wang, Y. Lu, Wei-Ying Ma. Detecting geographic locations from web resources. Proceedings of the Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval 2005, 17-24.
77. Z. Chen, S. Liu, Wenyin Liu, G. Pu, Wei-Ying Ma. Building a web thesaurus from web link structure. Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2003, 48-55.
78. J. Liu, M. Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Q. Liu, H. Lu. An adaptive graph model for automatic image annotation. Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2006, 61-70.
79. Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, X.D. Zhang, Z. Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. A study of relevance propagation for web search. Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2005, 408-415.
80. Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, M. Liu, Y. Li, Wei-Ying Ma. Arista-image search to annotation on billions of web photos. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern 2010, 2987-2994.
81. X. Xiao, X. Xie, Q. Luo, Wei-Ying Ma. Density based co-location pattern discovery. Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2008, 1-10.
82. D. Huang, S. Shi, C.Y. Lin, J. Yin, Wei-Ying Ma. How well do computers solve math word problems? large-scale dataset construction and evaluation. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2016, 887-896.
83. H. Wei, F. Zhang, N.J. Yuan, C. Cao, H. Fu, X. Xie, Y. Rui, Wei-Ying Ma. Beyond the words: Predicting user personality from heterogeneous information. Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2017, 305-314.
84. Wensi Xi, B. Zhang, Z. Chen, Y. Lu, S. Yan, Wei-Ying Ma, EA Fox. Link fusion: a unified link analysis framework for multi-type interrelated data objects. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on World Wide Web 2004, 319-327.
85. X. Fan, X. Xie, H.Q. Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma. Looking into video frames on small displays. Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2003, 247-250.
86. Bin Yu, Wei-Ying Ma, K. Nahrstedt, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Video summarization based on user log enhanced link analysis. Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2003, 382-391.
87. Lei Zhang, Y. Hu, M. Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Efficient propagation for face annotation in family albums. Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2004, 716-723.
88. Jidong Wang, Zheng Chen, Li Tao, Wei-Ying Ma, Wenyin, Liu. Ranking user's relevance to a topic through link analysis on web logs. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management 2002, 49-54.
89. Hua-Jun Zeng, Xuan-Hui Wang, Zheng Chen, Hongjun Lu, Wei-Ying Ma. CBC: Clustering based text classification requiring minimal labeled data. Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2003, 443-450.
90. Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Yida Wang, Jun Zhu, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Incorporating site-level knowledge to extract structured data from web forums. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web 2009, 181-190.
91. Xiaoguang Rui, Mingjing Li, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Nenghai Yu. Bipartite graph reinforcement model for web image annotation. Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2003, 585-594.
92. Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, H. Q. Zhou. Visual attention based image browsing on mobile devices. International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2003, Vol. 1, 1-53.
93. Xiaofei He, Wei-Ying Ma, Oliver King, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang. Learning and inferring a semantic space from user's relevance feedback for image retrieval. Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2002, 343-346.
94. Xiao Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Heung-Yeung Shum. Efficient indexing for large scale visual search. IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision 2009, 1103-1110.
95. Lei Wu, Mingjing Li, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Nenghai Yu. Visual language modeling for image classification. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2007, 115-124.
96. Wei-Ying Ma, Bo Shen, Jack Brassil. Content services network: the architecture and protocols. Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution 2001, Vol. 200, No.1, 89-107.
97. Xing Xie, Gengxin Miao, Ruihua Song, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Efficient browsing of web search results on mobile devices based on block importance model. Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2005, 17-26.
98. Rui Cai, Chao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Scalable music recommendation by search. Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2007, 1065-1074.
99. Qiankun Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav S Bhowmick, Wei-Ying Ma. Event detection from evolution of click-through data. Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2006, 484-493.
100. Ji-Rong Wen, Ni Lao, Wei-Ying Ma. Probabilistic model for contextual retrieval. Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2004, 57-63.
101. Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma. A unified framework for clustering heterogeneous web objects. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering 2002, 161-170.
102. Yu Zheng, Lizhu Zhang, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Mining correlation between locations using human location history. Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2009, 474-475.
103. Jim Kleban, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Spatial pyramid mining for logo detection in natural scenes. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2008. 1077-1080.
104. Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Wei-Ying Ma, Ji-Rong Wen, Hongjiang Zhang. Organizing WWW images based on the analysis of page layout and web link structure. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2004, Vol. 1, 113-116.
105. J. Yan, B. Zhang, S.C. Yan, Q, Yang, H. Li, Z. Chen, W. Xi, W. Fan, Wei-Ying Ma; Q.S. Cheng. IMMC: incremental maximum margin criterion. Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2004, 725-730.
106. Qiankun Zhao, Steven CH Hoi, Tie-Yan Liu, S Bhowmick, M. R Lyu, Wei-Ying Ma. Time-dependent semantic similarity measure of queries using historical click-through data. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web 2006, 543-552.
107. Yida Wang, J.M. Yang, W. Lai, R. Cai, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Exploring traversal strategy for web forum crawling. Proceedings of the 31st International ACM SIGIR Conference 2008, 459-466.
108. Ying Liu, D. Zhang, G. J. Lu, Wei-Ying Ma. Region-based image retrieval with high-level semantic color names. 11th International Multimedia Modelling Conference 2005, 180-187.
109. Ruihua Song, Haifeng Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma. Learning important models for web page blocks based on layout and content analysis. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter 2004, Vol. 6, No. 2, 14-23.
110. Jian-Tao Sun, Z. Chen, H. J. Zeng, Y. C. Lu, C. Y. Shi, Wei-Ying Ma. Supervised latent semantic indexing for document categorization. Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2004, 535-538.
111. Yijuan Lu, Lei Zhang, Qi Tian, Wei-Ying Ma. What are the high-level concepts with small semantic gaps? IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008.
112. Gu Xu, Wei-Ying Ma. Building implicit links from content for forum search. Proceedings of the 29th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2006, 300-307.
113. Wei-Ying Ma, B. S. Manjunath. Image indexing using a texture dictionary. Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems 1995, Vol. 2606, 288-298.
114. Xing Xie, Hao Liu, S. Goumaz, Wei-Ying Ma. Learning user interest for image browsing on small-form-factor devices. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005, 671-680.
115. Feng Jing, Bo Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang. A novel region-based image retrieval method using relevance feedback. Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2001, 28-31.
116. Hanghang Tong, Mingjing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Changshui Zhang, Jingrui He, Wei-Ying Ma. Learning no-reference quality metric by examples. 11th International Multimedia Modelling Conference 2005, 247-254.
117. Ning Liu, B. Zhang, J. Yan, Q. Yang, S.C. Yan, Z. Chen, F.S. Bai, Wei-Ying Ma. Learning similarity measures in non-orthogonal space. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2004, 334-341.
118. Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Qi-Cai He, Xing Li. Grouping web image search result. Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2004, 436-439.
119. Lei Zhang, Le Chen, Feng Jing, Kefeng Deng, Wei-Ying Ma. EnjoyPhoto: a vertical image search engine for enjoying high-quality photos. Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2006, 367-376.
120. Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. VirtualTour: an online travel assistant based on high quality images. Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2006, 599-602.
Keynote Speeches
· Democratizing Content Creation and Dissemination through AI Technology, The Web Conference, Taipei, Apr 20-24, 2020.
· AI for Content Curation, MIT Technology Review’s annual EmTech Digital Conference, San Francisco. (Presentation on behalf of ByteDance), Mar 26, 2018.
· Building an Artificially Intelligent and Socially Engaging Conversation Engine, The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) Industrial Track, Melbourne, Australia, 2015.
· Machine Comprehension of Text, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference, Cambodia, Dec 2014.
· Building a Scalable System for Machine Comprehension of Text, International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Nara Japan, Oct 6-9, 2014.
· From Information Organization to Knowledge Construction: Toward Semantic and Knowledge-based Search, 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, 2012.
· Interactive Social Relationship Mining: A Crowdsourcing Approach, The Sixth SNA-KDD Workshop in the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Beijing, Aug 12-16, 2012.
· Empowering People with Knowledge: The Next Frontier for Web Search, The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Hyderabad, India, 2010.
· Rethinking Multimedia Search in the new “Cloud + Clients” Era, The Workshop on Large-scale Multimedia Mining and Retrieval at ACM Multimedia Conference, 2009.
· Cloud Computing and the Future of Internet Services, The 10th International Mobile Data Management (MDM) Conference, 2009.
· Building Web-scale Data Mining Infrastructure for Search, The 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb, 2008.
· The Challenges and Opportunities of Mining Billions of Web Images for Search and Online Applications, The Multimedia Retrieval Workshop at ACM SIGIR Conference, 2007.
· The Challenges and Opportunities of Mining Billions of Web Images for Search and Advertising, The 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL2007.
· Building Infrastructure to Support Web-scale Data Mining for Search, DBWeb in Kyoto, Japan, 2006.
· Object-level Vertical Search, Workshop on Web Information Retrieval and Integration at ICDE, 2006.
· From Relevance to Intelligence: Toward Next Generation Web Search, Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop at ACM Multimedia Conference, 2005.
· Adaptive Content Delivery on Mobile Internet across Multiple Form Factors, International Multimedia Modeling Conference, 2004.
· Towards Next Generation Web Search, International Conference on Web Information Systems, 2004.
Book Chapters
· Xing Xie and Wei-Ying Ma, “Multimedia Adaptation and Browsing on Small Displays,” Web Content Delivery (Editors: Tang, Xueyan; Xu, Jianliang; Chanson, Samuel T.), 2005.
· Wei-Ying Ma and B. S. Manjunath, “Texture-based image retrieval,” Image Databases, Search and Retrieval of Digital Imagery, Editors: Vittorio Castelli and Lawrence D. Bergman, 2000.
· Wei-Ying Ma and Hongjiang Zhang, “Content-based image indexing and retrieval,” Chapter 11, The Handbook of Multimedia Computing, Editor: Borko Furht, CRC Press LLC, 1999.
· B. S. Manjunath, G. M. Haley and Wei-Ying Ma, “Multiband approaches to image classification and segmentation,” Image and Video Processing Handbook, Editor: Al Bovik, Academic Press, 1999.
· B. S. Manjunath, D. Forsyth, J. Malik, and Wei-Ying Ma “Image/Video Libraries,” Advances in Multimedia: Standards, Systems and Networks, Editors: A. Puri and T. Chen, 1999.
Patents
1. US Patent 10,891,322. Automatic conversation creator for news. Zhou, Ming; Kuo, Yu-Ting; Wei, Furu; Cui, Lei; Huang, Shaohan; London, Kati; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zhang, Haoyong. 2021.
2. US Patent 10,732,783. Identifying image comments from similar images. Yang, Kuiyuan; Ma, Wei-Ying; Liu, Chunyan; Li, Di; Xu, Pengfei; Rui, Yong; Wang, Baoxun. 2020.
3. US Patent 10,120,883. User interface for viewing clusters of images. Jing, Feng; Zhang, Lei; Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Deng, Kefeng. 2018.
4. US Patent 9,678,992. Text to image translation. Wang, Xin-Jing; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2017.
5. US Patent 9,703,895. Organizing search results based upon clustered content. Wang, Xin-Jing; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2017.
6. US Patent 9,703,782. Associating media with metadata of near duplicates. Wang, Xin-Jing; Zhang, Lei; Liu, Ming; Li, Yi; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2017.
7. US Patent 9,626,648. Recommending contacts in a social network. Liu, Dafan; Chen, Hua; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2017.
8. US Patent 9,554,093. Automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams. Hua, Xian-Sheng; Lai, Wei; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Shipeng. 2017.
9. US Patent 9,460,122. Long-query retrieval. Li, Zhiwei; Zhang, Lei; Cai, Rui; Ma, Wei-Ying; Shum, Heung-Yeung. 2016.
10. US Patent 9,396,214. User interface for viewing clusters of images. Jing, Feng; Zhang, Lei; Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Deng, Kefeng. 2016.
11. US Patent 9,483,577. Small form factor web browsing. Chen, Yu; Zhang, Hong-Jiang; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Ming-Yu. 2016.
12. US Patent 9,195,942. Method and system for mining information based on relationships. Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xu, Gu; Gao, Hongbin; Chen, Zheng; Hinrichs, Randy; Zeng, Hua-Jun. 2015.
13. US Patent 9,058,382. Augmenting a training set for document categorization. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2015.
14. US Patent 9,063,226. Detecting spatial outliers in a location entity dataset. Zheng, Yu; Feng, Jianqiao; Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2015.
15. US Patent 8,995,771. Identification of duplicates within an image space. Zhang, Lei; Wang, Xin-Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2015.
16. US Patent 8,645,370. Scoring relevance of a document based on image text. Yu, Qing; Shi, Shuming; Li, Zhiwei; Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2014.
17. US Patent 8,666,821. Selecting advertisements based on serving area and map area. Xie, Xing; Wang, Xianfang; Li, Ying; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Lee. 2014.
18. US Patent 8,782,805. Method and system for detecting when an outgoing communication contains certain content. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng. 2014.
19. US Patent 8,650,094. Music recommendation using emotional allocation modeling. Cai, Rui; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2014.
20. US Patent 8,700,600. Web forum crawling using skeletal links. Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying; Lai, Wei; Yang, Jiangming; Cai, Rui. 2014.
21. US Patent 8,429,110. Pattern tree-based rule learning. Cai, Rui; Zhang, Lei; Yang, Jiang-Ming; Ke, Yan; Fan, Xiaodong; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
22. US Patent 8,346,701. Answer ranking in community question-answering sites. Wang, Xin-Jing; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
23. US Patent 8,344,233. Scalable music recommendation by search. Cai, Rui; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
24. US Patent 8,457,416. Estimating word correlations from images. Liu, Jing; Wang, Bin; Li, Zhiwei; Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
25. US Patent 8,572,088. Automated rich presentation of a semantic topic. Lu, Lie; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2013.
26. US Patent 8,571,850. Dual cross-media relevance model for image annotation. Li, Mingjing; Lui, Jing; Wang, Bin; Li, Zhiwei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
27. US Patent 8,559,682. Building a person profile database. Zhang, Lei; Wang, Xin-Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
28. US Patent 8,401,977. Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wen, Ji-Rong; Song, Ruihua; Liu, Haifeng. 2013.
29. US Patent 8,438,168. Scalable music recommendation by search. Cai, Rui; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
30. US Patent 8,620,912. Ranking advertisements based upon advertisement features. Wang, Xin-Jing; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
31. US Patent 8,548,853. Peer-to-peer advertisement platform. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Fengping; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Li, Li; Najm, Tarek; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Ying; Chen, Zheng. 2013.
32. US Patent 8,396,331. Generating a multi-use vocabulary based on image data. Jia, Menglei; Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
33. US Patent 8,538,898. Interactive framework for name disambiguation. Lu, Zhengdong; Nie, Zaiqing; Luo, Gang; Cao, Yong; Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
34. US Patent 8,370,119. Website design pattern modeling. Cai, Rui; Yang, Jiang-Ming; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
35. US Patent 8,612,453. Topic distillation via subsite retrieval. Liu, Tie-Yan; Qin, Tao; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2013.
36. US Patent 8,341,112. Annotation by search. Zhang, Lei; Wang, Xin-ing; Jing, Feng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2012.
37. US Patent 8,126,274. Visual language modeling for image classification. Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei; Wu, Lei. 2012.
38. US Patent 8,224,849. Object similarity search in high-dimensional vector spaces. Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei; Wang, Bin. 2012.
39. US Patent 8,099,408. Web forum crawling using skeletal links. Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying; Lai, Wei; Yang, Jiangming; Cai, Rui. 2012.
40. US Patent 8,145,592. Calculating web page importance based on a conditional markov random walk. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2012.
41. US Patent 8,095,478. Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wen, Ji-Rong; Song, Ruihua; Liu, Haifeng. 2012.
42. US Patent 8,321,424. Bipartite graph reinforcement modeling to annotate web images. Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei; Rui, Xiaoguang. 2012.
43. US Patent 8,326,834. Density-based co-location pattern discovery. Xiao, Xiangye; Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2012.
44. US Patent 8,312,035. Search engine enhancement using mined implicit links. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Xue, Gui-Rong; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2012.
45. US Patent 8,250,067. Adding dominant media elements to search results. Li, Ming Jing; Shi, Shuming; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2012.
46. US Patent 8,326,820. Long-query retrieval. Li, Zhiwei; Zhang, Lei; Cai, Rui; Ma, Wei-Ying; Shum, Heung-Yeung. 2012.
47. US Patent 8,112,268. Method and system for prioritizing communications based on sentence classifications. Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Zhang, Benyu. 2012.
48. US Patent 8,051,083. Forum web page clustering based on repetitive regions. Lai, Wei; Cai, Rui; Yang, Jiangming; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2011.
49. US Patent 8,078,394. Indexing large-scale GPS tracks. Wang, Longhao; Zheng, Yu; Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2011.
50. US Patent 8,073,789. Method and system for web resource location classification and detection. Wang, Chuang; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing. 2011.
51. US Patent 8,041,133. Method and system for progressive image transmission. Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing. 2011.
52. US Patent 8,065,298. Concept network. Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Liu, Shengping. 2011.
53. US Patent 7,873,901. Small form factor web browsing. Chen, Yu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Ming-Yu; Zhang, Hong Jiang. 2011.
54. US Patent 7,873,902. Systems and methods for smart media content thumbnail extraction. Ma, Yu-Fei; Lin, Bin; Kong, Zhike; Zou, Xinli; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zhang, Hong-Jiang. 2011.
55. US Patent 7,873,903. Propagating relevance from labeled documents to unlabeled documents. Wang, Jue; Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2011.
56. US Patent 7,873,904. Small form factor web browsing. Chen, Yu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Ming-Yu; Zhang, Hong Jiang. 2011.
57. US Patent 7,873,905. Web object retrieval based on a language model. Wen, Ji-Rong; Shi, Shuming; Ma, Wei-Ying; Ma, Yunxiao; Nie, Zaiqing. 2011.
58. US Patent 7,873,906. Classifying functions of web blocks based on linguistic features. Ma, Wei-Ying; Xiao, Xiangye; Xie, Xing. 2011.
59. US Patent 7,873,907. Training a ranking function using propagated document relevance. Wang, Jue; Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2011.
60. US Patent 7,873,908. Group-by attribute value in search results. Chen, Hua; Nie, Zaiqing; Liu, Yue; Wu, Qiang; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2011.
61. US Patent 7,873,909. Method and system for prioritizing communications based on interpersonal relationships. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Chen, Zheng; Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2011.
62. US Patent 7,873,910. Hierarchy-based propagation of contribution of documents. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying; Qin, Tao. 2011.
63. US Patent 7,873,911. Spectral clustering using sequential matrix compression. Liu, Tie-Yan; Gao, Bin; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2011.
64. US Patent 7,873,912. Community mining based on core objects and affiliated objects. Wen, Ji-Rong; Zhou, Wen-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zhang, Hong-Jiang. 2011.
65. US Patent 7,873,913. Scoring relevance of a document based on image text. Yu, Qing; Shi, Shuming; Li, Zhiwei; Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2011
66. US Patent 7,873,914. Adding dominant media elements to search results. Li, Ming Jing; Shi, Shuming; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2011.
67. US Patent 7,873,915. Object similarity search in high-dimensional vector spaces. Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei; Wang, Bin. 2011.
68. US Patent 7,647,331. Detecting duplicate images using hash code grouping. Li, Mingjing; Wang, Bin; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2010.
69. US Patent 7,836,050. Ranking content based on relevance and quality. Jing, Feng; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
70. US Patent 7,689,585. Reinforced clustering of multi-type data objects for search term suggestion. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Zhang, Benyu; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Li; Li, Ying; Najm, Tarek. 2010.
71. US Patent 7,849,089. Method and system for adapting search results to personal information needs. Zhang, Benyu; Xue, Gui-Rong; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Jiang, Xue-Mei; Chen, Zheng. 2010.
72. US Patent 7,644,373. User interface for viewing clusters of images. Jing, Feng; Zhang, Lei; Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Deng, Kefeng. 2010.
73. US Patent 7,809,723. Distributed hierarchical text classification framework. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zeng, Hua-Jun. 2010.
74. US Patent 7,650,431. Serving locally relevant advertisements. Wang, Lee; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Xianfang; Xie, Xing; Li, Ying. 2010.
75. US Patent 7,779,001. Web page ranking with hierarchical considerations. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Chen, Zheng; Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xue, Guirong. 2010.
76. US Patent 7,860,317. Generating search results based on duplicate image detection. Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Fan, Xin; Zhou, Yinghua. 2010.
77. US Patent 7,720,830. Hierarchical conditional random fields for web extraction. Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying; Nie, Zaiqing; Zhu, Jun. 2010.
78. US Patent 7,805,438. Learning a document ranking function using fidelity-based error measurements. Liu, Tie-Yan; Tsai, Ming-Feng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
79. US Patent 7,725,451. Generating clusters of images for search results. Jing, Feng; Zhang, Lei; Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Chang-Hu. 2010.
80. US Patent 7,664,735. Method and system for ranking documents of a search result to improve diversity and information richness. Zhang, Benyu; Chen, Zheng; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
81. US Patent 7,657,504. User interface for displaying images of sights. Jing, Feng; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
82. US Patent 7,813,561. Automatic classification of objects within images. Jia, Menglei; Li, Hua; Xie, Xing; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
83. US Patent 7,743,058. Co-clustering objects of heterogeneous types. Liu, Tie-Yan; Gao, Bin; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
84. US Patent 7,818,279. Event detection based on evolution of click-through data. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
85. US Patent 7,809,813. System and method for providing content-oriented services to content providers and content consumers. Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Yu; Sun, Liang; Xie, Xing; Yuan, Chun; Zhang, HongJiang. 2010.
86. US Patent 7,657,089. Automatic classification of photographs and graphics. Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Yuanhao; Li, Zhiwei. 2010.
87. US Patent 7,698,332. Projecting queries and images into a similarity space. Liu, Tie-Yan; Qin, Tao; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
88. US Patent 7,809,185. Extracting dominant colors from images using classification techniques. Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei; Chen, Yuanhao. 2010.
89. US Patent 7,660,804. Joint optimization of wrapper generation and template detection. Wen, Ji-Rong; Wan, Min; Song, Ruihua; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zeng, Shuyi. 2010.
90. US Patent 7,698,294. Content object indexing using domain knowledge. Ma, Wei-Ying; Lu, Lie; Wen, Ji-Rong; Li, Zhiwei; Nie, Zaiqing; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen. 2010.
91. US Patent 7,698,339. Method and system for summarizing a document. Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Shen, Dou. 2010.
92. US Patent 7,707,208. Identifying sight for a location. Jing, Feng; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying.2010.
93. US Patent 7,853,596. Mining geographic knowledge using a location aware topic model. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Chong; Wang, Jinggang; Xie, Xing. 2010.
94. US Patent 7,774,340. Method and system for calculating document importance using document classifications. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng. 2010.
95. US Patent 7,747,618. Augmenting user, query, and document triplets using singular value decomposition. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Sun, Jian-Tao; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng; Zhang, Benyu; Liu, Huan. 2010.
96. US Patent 7,788,263. Probabilistic retrospective event detection. Li, Zhiwei; Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2010.
97. US Patent 7,617,176. Query-based snippet clustering for search result grouping. Zeng, Hua-Jun; He, Qicai; Liu, Guimei; Chen, Zheng; Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
98. US Patent 7,584,181. Implicit links search enhancement system and method for search engines using implicit links generated by mining user access patterns. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Xue, Gui-Rong; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
99. US Patent 7,596,597. Recommending contacts in a social network. Liu, Dafan; Chen, Hua; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
100. US Patent 7,574,530. Method and system for web resource location classification and detection. Wang, Chuang; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing. 2009.
101. US Patent 7,599,931. Web forum crawler. Shi, Bin; Xu, Gu; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
102. US Patent 7,594,277. Method and system for detecting when an outgoing communication contains certain content. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng. 2009.
103. US Patent 7,565,372. Evaluating and generating summaries using normalized probabilities. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng; Li, Hua. 2009.
104. US Patent 7,590,603. Method and system for classifying and identifying messages as question or not a question within a discussion thread. Zhang, Benyu; Chen, Zheng; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
105. US Patent 7,567,895. Method and system for prioritizing communications based on sentence classifications. Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Zhang, Benyu. 2009.
106. US Patent 7,584,100. Method and system for clustering using generalized sentence patterns. Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng; Zeng, Hua-Jun. 2009.
107. US Patent 7,617,194. Supervised ranking of vertices of a directed graph. Liu, Tie-Yan; Qin, Tao; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009
108. US Patent 7,624,081. Predicting community members based on evolution of heterogeneous networks using a best community classifier and a multi-class community classifier. Zhao, Qiankun; Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009
109. US Patent 7,606,875. Detecting serving area of a web resource. Xie, Xing; Wang, Lee; Zhang, Qi; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009
110. US Patent 7,634,476. Ranking of web sites by aggregating web page ranks. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009
111. US Patent 7,580,931. Topic distillation via subsite retrieval. Liu, Tie-Yan; Qin, Tao; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
112. US Patent 7,590,267. Accelerated face detection based on prior probability of a view. Xiao, Rong; Zhang, Lei; Sun, Yan-Feng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
113. US Patent 7,562,056. Method and system for learning an attention model for an image. Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing. 2009.
114. US Patent 7,607,082. Categorizing page block functionality to improve document layout for browsing. Xie, Xing; Miao, Gengxin; Xin, Guomao; Song, Ruihua; Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
115. US Patent 7,627,571. Extraction of anchor explanatory text by mining repeated patterns. Jing, Feng; Deng, Kefeng; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
116. US Patent 7,577,650. Method and system for ranking objects of different object types. Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying; Nie, Zaiqing. 2009.
117. US Patent 7,609,898. Method and system for progressive image transmission. Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing. 2009.
118. US Patent 7,630,964. Determining relevance of documents to a query based on identifier distance. Xin, Guomao; Wen, Ji-Rong; Song, Ruihua; Shi, Shuming; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
119. US Patent 7,613,995. Vision-based document segmentation. Wen, Ji-Rong; Yu, Shipeng; Cai, Deng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
120. US Patent 7,630,976. Method and system for adapting search results to personal information needs. Zhang, Benyu; Xue, Gui-Rong; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Jiang, Xue-Mei; Chen, Zheng. 2009.
121. US Patent 7,529,748. Information classification paradigm. Wen, Ji-Rong; Sun, Yan-Feng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Nie, Zaiqing; Jiang, Renkuan. 2009.
122. US Patent 7,548,936. Systems and methods to present web image search results for effective image browsing. Liu, Hao; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing; Li, Zhiwei. 2009.
123. US Patent 7,516,401. Function-based object model for analyzing a web page table in a mobile device by identifying table objects similarity in function. Chen, Jin-Lin; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
124. US Patent 7,545,985. Method and system for learning-based quality assessment of images. Zhang, Hong-Jiang; Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
125. US Patent 7,480,652. Determining relevance of a document to a query based on spans of query terms. Wen, Ji-Rong; Song, Ruihua; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
126. US Patent 7,546,278. Correlating categories using taxonomy distance and term space distance. Yang, Huai-Yuan; Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
127. US Patent 7,529,390. Automatically cropping an image. Zhang, Lei; Zhang, Mingju; Ma, Wei-Ying; Sun, Yan-Feng. 2009.
128. US Patent 7,480,858. Analyzing webpages using function-based object models for web page display in a mobile device. Chen, Jin-Lin; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
129. US Patent 7,533,094. Method and system for determining similarity of items based on similarity objects and their features. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng; Liu, Ning; Yan, Jun. 2009.
130. US Patent 7,502,789. Identifying important news reports from news home pages. Yao, Jinyi; Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2009.
131. US Patent 7,509,299. Calculating web page importance based on a conditional Markov random walk. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2009.
132. US Patent 7,502,495. Method and system for incrementally learning an adaptive subspace by optimizing the maximum margin criterion. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Yan, Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Chen, Zheng. 2009.
133. US Patent 7,529,735. Method and system for mining information based on relationships. Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xu, Gu; Gao, Hongbin; Chen, Zheng; Hinrichs, Randy; Zeng, Hua-Jun. 2009.
134. US Patent 7,403,642. Efficient propagation for face annotation. Zhang, Lei; Li, Mingjing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Sun, Yan-Feng; Hu, Yuxiao. 2008.
135. US Patent 7,428,529. Term suggestion for multi-sense query. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Zhang, Benyu; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Li; Li, Ying; Najm, Tarek. 2008.
136. US Patent 7,441,207. Method and system for improved viewing and navigation of content. Filner, Aaron S; McLain, Jay F; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
137. US Patent 7,366,705. Clustering based text classification. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Wang, Xuanhui; Chen, Zheng; Zhang, Benyu; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
138. US Patent 7,433,895. Adding dominant media elements to search results. Li, Ming Jing; Shi, Shuming; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Zhiwei. 2008.
139. US Patent 7,406,459. Concept network. Chen, Zheng; Liu, Shengping; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
140. US Patent 7,383,254. Method and system for identifying object information. Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying; Nie, Zaiqing. 2008.
141. US Patent 7,471,827. Automatic browsing path generation to present image areas with high attention value as a function of space and time. Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zhang, Hong-Jiang; Hao, Liu. 2008.
142. US Patent 7,389,444. Method and system for troubleshooting a misconfiguration of a computer system based on product support services information. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Yi-Min; Wen, Ji-Rong. 2008.
143. US Patent 7,437,382. Method and system for ranking messages of discussion threads. Zhang, Benyu; Chen, Zheng; Xi, Wensi; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
144. US Patent 7,461,073. Co-clustering objects of heterogeneous types. Gao, Bin; Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
145. US Patent 7,346,621. Method and system for ranking objects based on intra-type and inter-type relationships. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xi, Wensi; Chen, Zheng; Fox, Edward A. 2008.
146. US Patent 7,428,700. Vision-based document segmentation. Wen, Ji-Rong; Yu, Shipeng; Cai, Deng; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
147. US Patent 7,363,279. Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wen, Ji-Rong; Song, Ruihua; Liu, Haifeng. 2008.
148. US Patent 7,392,474. Method and system for classifying display pages using summaries. Chen, Zheng; Shen, Dou; Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
149. US Patent 7,376,643. Method and system for determining similarity of objects based on heterogeneous relationships. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Xue, Gui-Rong; Chen, Zheng; Zhang, Benya; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
150. US Patent 7,337,092. Event-based automated diagnosis of known problems. Yuan, Chun; Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Yi-Min; Zhang, Zheng. 2008.
151. US Patent 7,418,660. Method and system for caching and adapting dynamic display pages for small display devices. Hua, Zhigang; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing. 2008.
152. US Patent 7,444,343. Hybrid location and keyword index. Wang, Chuang; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing; Zhou, Yinghua. 2008.
153. US Patent 7,457,801. Augmenting a training set for document categorization. Liu, Tie-Yan; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2008.
154. US Patent 7,457,825. Generating search requests from multimodal queries. Li, Ming Jing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Xie, Xing; Fan, Xin; Li, Zhiwei. 2008.
155. US Patent 7,260,568. Verifying relevance between keywords and web site contents. Zhang, Benyu; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Li, Li; Li, Ying; Najm, Tarek. 2007.
156. US Patent 7,305,389. Content propagation for enhanced document retrieval. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Zhang, Benyu; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen; Cook, Daniel B; Hirschler, Gabor; Fries, Karen; Samuelson, Kurt. 2007.
157. US Patent 7,287,025. Systems and methods for query expansion. Wen, Ji-Rong; Cui, Hang; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2007.
158. US Patent 7,289,985. Enhanced document retrieval. Zeng, Hua-Jun; Zhang, Benyu; Chen, Zheng; Ma, Wei-Ying; Hon, Hsiao-Wuen; Cook, Daniel B; Hirschler, Gabor; Fries, Karen; Samuelson, Kurt. 2007.
159. US Patent 7,246,306. Web information presentation structure for web page authoring. Chen, Jinlin; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2007.
160. US Patent 7,260,261. Systems and methods for enhanced image adaptation. Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zhang, Hong-Jiang; Chen, Liqun; Fan, Xin. 2007.
161. US Patent 7,290,006. Document representation for scalable structure. Xie, Xing; Ma, Wei-Ying; Zhang, Hong-Jiang; Chen, Liqun. 2007.
162. US Patent 7,171,337. Event-based automated diagnosis of known problems. Yuan, Chun; Wen, Ji-Rong; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Yi-Min; Zhang, Zheng. 2007.
163. US Patent 7,194,466. Object clustering using inter-layer links. Chen, Zheng; Wang, Ji-Dong; Zeng, Hua-Jun; Sun, Xiaoming; Tao, Li; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2007.
164. US Patent 7,293,007. Method and system for identifying image relatedness using link and page layout analysis. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wen, Ji-Rong; He, Xiaofei; Cai, Deng. 2007.
165. US Patent 7,249,135. Method and system for schema matching of web databases. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wen, Ji-Rong. 2007.
166. US Patent 7,249,136. Small form factor web browsing. Chen, Yu; Ma, Wei-Ying; Wang, Ming-Yu; Zhang, HongJiang. 2007.
167. US Patent 7,249,137. Segmenting and indexing web pages using function-based object models. Chen, Jin-Lin; Ma, Wei-Ying. 2006.
168. US Patent 7,249,138. Method and system for indexing and searching databases. Ma, Wei-Ying; Wen, Ji-Rong. 2006.
169. US Patent 7,249,139. Information embedding based on user relevance feedback for object retrieval. Ma, Wei-Ying; Lee, Catherine S; Zhang, HongJiang. 2002.
Editorial Boards
· Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2005-2012
· Editor, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, 2004-2012
· Associate Editor, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1998-2004
· Guest Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE – Special Issue on Advances in Multimedia Information Retrieval, Apr. 2008
Conference and Workshop Committees
· General co-chair, The 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2011
· Program co-chair, International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2008
· Steering committee member, International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, 2010-2016
· Area chair, Multimedia Information Retrieval, ACM SIGIR Conference 2010
· Area chair, Rich Media, International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2010
· Publicity chair, ACM Multimedia Conference 2009
· General co-chair, Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2008
· Program co-chair, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2007
· Area chair, Multimedia Information Retrieval, ACM SIGIR Conference, 2006-2007
· Demo chair, ACM Multimedia Conference 2007
· Panel chair, ACM Multimedia Conference 2006
· General co-chair, International Multimedia Modeling Conference 2005
· Conference co-chair, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2005
· Vice chair, Multimedia & Hypermedia, International World Wide Web Conference 2005
· Workshop chair, ACM Multimedia Conference 2005
· PC member of ACM Multimedia, 2001-2007
· PC member of WWW, 2003-2007
· PC member of ACM SIGIR, 2004-2005
· PC members of ACM SIGKDD, CIKM, NAACL/HLT, MMM, ICME, PCM, WSDM, etc. 2007
· PC member of IEEE ICME, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006
· PC member of IEEE ICCV 2003
· PC member of IEEE CVPR 2000
· PC member of IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries, 1998-2001
Other Professional Activities
· Independent Director, Yidu Cloud Inc., 2021-Now
· Member of Advisory Board, Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2012-2018
· Guest Professor, National Taiwan University, 2007-2020
· Guest Professor, Nankai University, China, 2005-
· Concurrent Doctoral Advisor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2013-2018
· Concurrent Doctoral Advisor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2008-2012
· Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University, China, 2003-2006
