Ping Li
Assistant Professor


Department of Statistical Science
Faculty of Computing and Information Science
pingli [att] cornell [dot] edu

1192 Comstock Hall, (1 607) 255 9813

Postdoctoral Positions Available

Big data, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or NLP

Awards

2010 Prize in Yahoo! Learning to Rank Grand Challenge
2009 ONR (Office of Naval Research) Young Investigator Award
2006 SIGKDD Best Student Paper Award

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University, 2007

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Randomized Algorithms for Large Data Sets

Teaching

Srping 2012 Categorical Data
Fall 2008, Fall 2009 Theory of Probability
Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Theory of Statistics
Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Statistical Computing
Spring 2011, Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods

Selected Recent Papers

Ping Li, Anshumali Shrivastava, Joshua Moore, and Christian Konig
Hashing Algorithms for Large-Scale Learning,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011.

Ping Li and Christian Konig
Theory and Applications of b-Bit Minwise Hashing,
Research Hightlights, Communications of the ACM, 2011. (Previous version apeared in WWW 2010)

Ping Li and Cun-Hui Zhang
A New Algorithm for Compressed Counting with Applications in Shannon Entropy Estimation in Dynamic Data,
Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2011.

Ping Li, Christian Konig, and Wenhao Gui
b-Bit Minwise Hashing for Estimating Three-Way Similarities,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010.

Ping Li,
Robust LogitBoost and Adaptive Base Class (ABC) LogitBoost,
Uncertainty on Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2010.

Ping Li, Michael Mahoney, and Yiyuan She
Estimating Higher-Order Distances Using Random Projections,
Uncertainty on Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2010.

Ping Li,
ABC-Boost: Adaptive Base Class Boost for Multi-class Classification,
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2009.

Ping Li,
Compressed Counting,
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2009.

Ping Li, Kenneth W. Church and Trevor J. Hastie
One Sketch For All: Theory and Application of Conditional Random Sampling,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2008

Ping Li, Chris Burges, and Qiang Wu
McRank: Learning to Rank Using Multiple Classifications and Gradient Boosting,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2007

Ping Li, Trevor J. Hastie, and Kenneth W. Church,
Nonlinear Estimators and Tail Bounds for Dimension Reduction in L1 Using Cauchy Random Projections,
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2497-2532, 2007.

Ping Li and Kenneth W. Church,
A sketch algorithm for estimating two-way and multi-way associations,
Computational Linguistics 33(3), 305-354, 2007

Ping Li, Debashis Paul, Ravi Narasimhan and John Cioffi,
On the distribution of SINR for the MMSE MIMO receiver and performance analysis,
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 52:1, 271-286, 2006.