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  Furu Wei was born in August 1983. He is currently a staff researcher at IBM China Research Lab, Beijing, China. Furu received his Ph.D in June 2009 in Department of Computer Science from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. Before that, he received a B.Sc degree from the same department in 2004. He has published more than 8 papers in top conferences and leading journals, such as SIGIR, ACL, COLING, CIKM, Knowledge and Information Systems, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. His main research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval and text mining.

 

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  Lei Shi is a staff researcher at IBM China Research Lab. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, in 2003, 2006 and 2008 respectively, all in Computer Science. His previous research topics lie in the Networking and Systems, where he has published several papers including Sigcomm, Infocom, ICDCS and Elsevier Computer Communications.

 

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  Li Tan is a researcher at IBM China Research Lab. He received a BSC degree in Applied Mathematics from Hengyang Normal Univ. in 2005, a MSC degree in Computational Mathematics from NanKai Univ. in 2008.

 

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  Nan Cao is a staff researcher at IBM China Research Lab. He recieved a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University.His research intrests mainly focused in two areas:1). information visualization, viual analytics, computer graphcis and geometry.2). network storage, distribute systems and database.

 

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  Qiang Zhang is a staff researcher in IBM China Research Lab(CRL). He joined CRL as pure blue after receiving his Master degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2003, majored in pattern recognition and intelligent system. His current research focus is how to enhance the consumability of analytics via novel interactive visualization since 2008. His past research experience in CRL includes understanding and exploring novel collaboration paradigm to enhance productivity of knowledge workers and organizations, including activity-centric computing, project management and enterprise web20. He is an evangelist for new technology, and fond of experimenting alpha and beta tools.

 

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  Weihong Qian is a researcher at IBM China Research Lab. She recieved a Master Degree in Computer Science and Technology from Zhe Jiang University. Her research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, computer graphics and geometry, embedded system etc.

 

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  Weijia Cai is a researcher at IBM China Research Lab. He received a master degree in School of Software from Tsinghua University. As visualization designer and developer for about four years and also have passion on designing more fast and flexible software. He insists that visualization can enhance the ability of the human mind to process information. It has more advantages in cutting-edges situation and education or learning activity.

 

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  Xiaohua Sun is a research staff member at IBM China Research Lab. She received her master and Ph.D. degree in Design and Computation from MIT in 2002 and 2007 respectively. Her current research interests include information visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. Xiaohua also leads the UI Center at CRL working on UI design for projects across the lab.

 

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  Xiaoxiao Lian is a researcher at IBM China Research Lab. She received Bachelor of Arts degree and Master of Arts degree in Arts in Information Design from Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. Her research interests include information visualization, interaction design, graphics design etc.

 

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  Yangqiu Song is a staff researcher at IBM China Research Lab. He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China in 2003 and 2009. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, information visualization and retrieval.

 

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  Shixia Liu is a research manager at IBM China Research Lab, where she manages the department of smart visual analytics. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. Her research interests include interactive visual text analysis, interactive visual social network analysis, social network analysis, text analytics, and computer graphics. Liu served as the PC member of several international conferences such as ACM Multimedia, PacificVis, and SDM, and has authored and coauthored a number of papers, and filed 40+ patents.