Yisong Yue - Research Biography

Yisong Yue is a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, where he works on machine learning approaches to structured prediction and interactive systems, with an application focus in information retrieval. He is the author of the SVM-map software package for optimizing mean average precision using support vector machines, and he currently manages the experimental search service for the Physics E-Print ArXiv. He is also the recipient of a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship and a Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award. His recent research focuses on machine learning approaches to learning from user interactions (implicit feedback), online experiment design, diversified retrieval, and interactive search.