Shih-Wen Huang
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
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Email:
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(217) 979-8026
shuang51@illinois.edu
web.engr.illinois.edu/∼shuang51/
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Crowdsourcing, Intelligent Interfaces, Information Visualization,
Natural Language Processing , Information Retrieval
EDUCATION
M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
GPA 4.0/4.0
Advisor: Professor Wai-Tat Fu
B.B.A., Information Management, National Taiwan University
Minor in Civil Engineering
GPA 3.96/4.0 (Major), GPA 3.9/4.0 (Overall), Rank 2/47
2011-present
2007-2010
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Design with Crowds
Studied how to build crowd computing systems that utilize the wisdom of crowds to assist users in conducting
creative work (e.g., design). Specifically, we focused on two crowdsourcing opportunities: First, when generating ideas for creative work, crowds can provide diverse ideas and examples for users to explore. Second,
crowds can provide constructive feedback for users to improve their work.
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Aimed at ACM UIST ’13
Leveraging the Crowd to Improve Feature-Sentiment Analysis of User Reviews
Designed and developed an intelligent interface to help users digest a huge amount of online reviews. The
system has an innovative interface to provide real-time feedback when a user is writing reviews. Therefore,
the user can provide useful labels by simply correcting the mistakes made by the system. These labels can
then be used to train SVM classifiers that allow readers to highlight feature-related information.
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Published in ACM UIST ’12 and submitted to ACM IUI ’13
Motivating Workers in Crowdsourcing Utilizing the Power of Peer Workers
Conducted a series of experiments to see how the presence of peer workers can be used to enhance the quality
of crowdsourcing outcomes. Our results show that some mechanisms (e.g., increasing social transparency,
pairing workers) can make crowd workers perform significantly better.
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To appear in ACM CSCW ’13 and conditionally accepted to ACM CHI ’13
Systematic Analysis of Games with a Purpose
Studied the effects of different components of output agreement games, one of the most popular forms of games
with a purpose (GWAP). The results show that a gaming environment (e.g., scoring system, leaderboard)
effectively motivates players to generate high-quality work and the social interaction between players is the
key for GWAP to recruit volunteers.
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Published in AAAI workshop on Human Computation (HCOMP ’12)
Visualizing Time-Evolving Activities Using Communication Archive Data
Built a novel visualization to assist users in exploring their communication archive data. Our visualization
could help users easily identify the groups and activities in their dynamic social networks. Moreover, the
system has an interface that allows users to easily interact with their archive data.
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Published in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia ’11
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PUBLICATIONS
Huang, S.-W. and Fu, W.-T., "Don’t Hide in the Crowd! Increasing Social Transparency Between Peer
Workers Improves Crowdsourcing Outcomes," in Proceedings of ACM CHI 2013 (conditionally accepted)
Huang, S.-W., Tu, P.-F., Fu, W.-T., and Amanzadeh, M., "Leveraging the Crowd to Improve FeatureSentiment Analysis of User Reviews," in Proceedings of ACM IUI 2013 (to appear)
Huang, S.-W. and Fu, W.-T., "Enhancing Reliability Using Peer Consistency Evaluation in Human Computation," in Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2013 (to appear)
Huang, S.-W. and Fu, W.-T., "Motivating Crowds Using Social Facilitation and Social Transparency," in
Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2013 Companion (to appear)
Huang, S.-W., Tu, P.-F., Amanzadeh, M., and Fu, W.-T., "Review Explorer: An Innovative Interface for
Displaying and Collecting Categorized Review Information," in Adjunct Proceedings of ACM UIST 2012
Huang, S.-W. and Fu, W.-T., "Systematic Analysis of Output Agreement Games: Effects of Gaming Environment, Social Interaction, and Feedback," in Proceedings of the AAAI workshop on Human Computation
(HCOMP ’12), 2012
Luo, S.-J., Huang, S.-W., Yen, E.-S., Huang, L.-T., Chen, B.-Y., and Ma, K.-L., "Presenting Time-Evolving
Activities Using Communication Archive Data," in Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 (Poster session)
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Teaching Assistant
UIUC CS 411 Database Systems
UIUC CS 373 Theory of Computation
UIUC CS 105 Introduction to Computing
NTU Fin 7035 Game Theory with Applications to Business (Graduate)
• Research Assistant
Academia Sinica, Project Empirical Study of Taiwanese Litigation Outcome
• Summer Intern
Hexun Information Technology, Financial News Editor
• Second Lieutenant
Republic of China (Taiwan) Army, Executive Officer
Spring, Fall
Summer
Fall
Fall
2012
2012
2011
2009
Spring 2010
Summer 2009
8/2010-7/2011
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Reviewer
CHI 2013, IUI 2013
HONORS
Presidential Award, National Taiwan University
(GPA in the top 5% of the students in Dept. of Information Management)
2007, 2008
Conference Travel Award, UIUC Graduate College
2012
Conference Travel Award, International Conference on Social Computing,
Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction
2012
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LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Founder of NTU Dreamer Club
Founded a club that encourages and helps students to fulfill their dreams
2007
Vice president of NTU Student Association of Dept. of Information Management
Organized different activities and lectures for students
2008
Student leader of PKU Summer Exchange Activity
Leaded a student team to exchange with the students of Peking University
2008
SKILLS
Programming languages: Python, C/C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML5, SQL
Tools/toolkits: Mechanical Turk (REST API), Turkit, NLTK, Matlab, SPSS, Weka, SVMlight , Hadoop