Welcome to my academic webpage! I am currently a Ph.D. candidate student (4th year) at Prof. Changsheng Xu's Multimedia Computing (MMC) group, advised by Associate Prof.Jitao Sang. My research work generally focuses on user-centric social media analysis. Currently, my research work mainly focuses on cross-network user modeling and recommendation.

My typical research interests include:

• Cross-network social media analysis and application
• User modeling in social media, user behavior prediction, personalized services such as recommendation
• Data mining from the perspective of user, crowd sourcing, collective intelligence
• Applied machine learning: latent factor model, matrix factorization, graphical topic models, sparse coding, etc

I received my bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (hust). I also worked with Dr. Tao Mei on video content analysis at 2013 when interned at MSRA and was a research intern in China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media (CSIDM) at 2014.

Selected Publications

FriendTransfer: Cold-start Friend Recommendation with Cross-platform Transfer Learning of Social Knowledge
Ming Yan, Jitao Sang, Tao Mei and Changsheng Xu
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), San Jose, USA, 2013
Full paper, oral
[project] [pdf] [slides]

Mining Cross-network Association for YouTube Video Promotion
Ming Yan, Jitao Sang and Changsheng Xu
ACM Multimedia 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA
Full paper, oral
[project] [pdf] [slides] [poster] [dataset]

Unified YouTube Video Recommendation via Cross-network Collaboration
Ming Yan, Jitao Sang and Changsheng Xu
ACM ICMR 2015, Shanghai, China
Best student paper award, Full paper, oral
[project] [pdf] [slides] [dataset]