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

Recent Tech. Reports

Ping Li and Cun-Hui Zhang
Exact Sparse Recovery with L0 Projections


Awards

2011 Microsoft Research Award Certificate
2010 Prize in Yahoo! Learning to Rank Grand Challenge
2008 Google Research Award

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics, Master in Electrical Engineering, Master in Computer Science, Stanford University.

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
Fall 2012, Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods

Selected Recent Papers

Ping Li, Art Owen, and Cun-Hui Zhang
One Permutation Hashing
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012.

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,
Robust LogitBoost and Adaptive Base Class (ABC) LogitBoost,
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, Chris Burges, and Qiang Wu
McRank: Learning to Rank Using Multiple Classifications and Gradient Boosting,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 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.

Ping Li, Sandy Napel, Burak Acar, David S. Paik, R. Brooke Jeffrey Jr and Christopher F. Beaulieu,
Registration of central paths and colonic polyps between supine and prone scans in computed tomography colonography: Pilot study,
Medical Physics, 31, 2912-2923, 2004.