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Harr Chen
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Stata Center
,
32-G494
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge
,
MA
02139
harr at mit dot edu / harrchenone (AIM) / harrchen at msn dot com (MSN)
I am:
a fourth year graduate student
a member of the
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
at
MIT
advised by
Professor David Karger
and
Professor Regina Barzilay
interested primarily in information retrieval and natural language processing
affiliated with the
Haystack project
a student of the
Sloan School of Management
Financial Technology Option
funded by the
Office of Naval Research
aka harrbar, harrchenemy
a sage who sits above Asgard, the other two being
Jafnharr and Thridi
the pirate's favorite computer scientist (arrrgh harrrrr!)
way too fond of HTML lists
defined on
Urban Dictionary
(though I'm not actually ABC)
redirected on Wikipedia to the Norse God
Odin
I was:
a
Credit Suisse
proprietary trading (New York) and equity derivatives trading (Hong Kong) summer associate
a
Google
research intern
a
Microsoft
full time software engineer
a
University of Washington
undergraduate (go Huskies!)
a graduate of the UW
Early Entrance Program
(the picture at the upper left of that page is me - in years long past)
a student at
Margaret McKenny
elementary school, Olympia, WA
I have:
an
Erdos Number
of four, putting me in
distinguished company
a
CV
- it's so old that it's not even worth linking to anymore
I work on:
stuff
I published:
S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay.
Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-text Annotations
. In
Proceedings of ACL/HLT 2008.
Harr Chen, David R. Karger.
Less is More: Probabilistic Models for Retrieving Fewer Relevant Documents.
In
Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2006
. Slides:
[ppt]
Raman Chandrasekar
, Harr Chen,
Simon Corston-Oliver
,
Eric Brill
.
Subwebs for Specialized Search.
In
Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2004
.
I patented:
Harr Chen, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Sonja Knoll,
Hsiao-Wuen Hon
.
System and method for using anchor text as training data for classifier-based search systems
. Filed December 2004.
Harr Chen, Raman Chandrasekar, Simon Corston-Oliver, Eric Brill.
Building and using subwebs for focused search.
Filed February 2004.
Simon Corston-Oliver, Raman Chandrasekar, Harr Chen.
Machine-learned approach to determining document relevance for search over large electronic collections of documents.
US Patent No. 7287012.
I have visited:
Brazil
Canada
P.R. China (country of birth)
France
Hong Kong
Italy
Germany
Macau
The Netherlands
The Philippines
United Kingdom
United States (country of residence)
I think about:
Actually, I don't think, I really should be just doing research. :)
*Ambigram courtesy of
Ali Mohammad
.