Baoning Wu's Homepage

I am Baoning Wu, my Ph.D. dissertation has been signed!! See the Publications section below!

I joined Snap.com (which is part of IdeaLab ) as a search quality scientist in Mar, 2007.
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MY ADVISOR: PROF.DAVISON

at Stanford

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RESEARCH INTEREST:

* Fighting search engine spam

* Peer-to-peer systems

* Web proxy performance

Also interested in text data mining, machine learning and mobile ad hoc network.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Program committee member of AIRWeb '05 Workshop

Program committee member of AIRWeb '07 Workshop

Reviewer of SIGIR '07 poster session

Program committee member of WSDM 2008 conference

Program committee member of AIRWeb '08 Workshop

INTERNSHIP:

Microsoft Research and Live Labs, in Microsoft's headquarter. Seattle, WA (2006) ( photo )

Google Inc. in Google's headquarter. Mountain View, CA (2005)

PUBLICATIONS:

Baoning Wu (2007) Finding and Fighting Search Engine Spam. Ph.D. Dissertation PDF
Baoning Wu and Kumar Chellapilla. (2007) Extracting Link Spam using Biased Random Walks from Spam Seed Sets. Accepted in the 3rd AirWeb workshop, Banff, Canada, May, 2007 To appear
Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison. (2006) Detecting Semantic Cloaking on the Web. Accepted in 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22-26, 2006 PDF
Baoning Wu, Vinay Goel and Brian D. Davison. (2006) Topical TrustRank: Using Topicality to Combat Web Spam. Accepted in 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22-26, 2006 PDF
Baoning Wu, Vinay Goel and Brian D. Davison. (2006) Propagating Trust and Distrust to Demote Web Spam. Accepted in MTW06 workshop of 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22-26, 2006 PDF
Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison. (2006) Undue Influence: Eliminating the Impact of Link Plagiarism on Web Search Rankings. Accepted in 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Dijon, France. Apr 23-27, 2006 PDF
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, and Baoning Wu. (2005) Connecting P2P to the Web: A Gnutella-WWW Gateway. Technical Report. Lehigh University PDF
Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison. (2005) Identifying link farm spam pages. Accepted in 14th International World Wide Web Conference, Chiba, Japan, May 10-14, 2005 PDF
Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison. (2005) Cloaking and Redirection: a preliminary study. Accepted in AirWeb '05 Workshop, Chiba, Japan, May 10, 2005 PDF
Brian D. Davison and Baoning Wu. (2004) Implementing an evaluation architecture for Web proxies, In Proceedings of CMG2004, Las vegas, NV, Dec 5-10, 2004 BEST PAPER AWARD
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, and Baoning Wu. (2004) Lessons from a Gnutella-Web Gateway, poster, 13th International World Wide Web Conference, New York City, NY, May 17-22, 2004 PDF
Wenbin Ma, Baoning Wu, Wei Zhang, and Liang Cheng. (2003) Implementation of a lightweight service advertisement and discovery protocol for mobile ad hoc networks, IEEE Globecom 2003, pp. 1023-1027, San Francisco, CA, Dec 1-5, 2003 PDF
Brian D. Davison, C. Krishnan, and Baoning Wu. (2002) When does a hit = a miss? In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW-2002) , Boulder, CO, Aug 14-16, pages 91-102 PDF
Brian D. Davison, K. Komaravolu, and Baoning Wu. (2002) A Split Stack Approach to Mobility-Providing Performance-Enhancing Proxies. Technical Report LU-CSE-02-012, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University PDF