Mingxuan Sun

Assistant Professor

3272S Patrick F. Taylor Hall

Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Phone: 225 578 2882
msun@csc.lsu.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012

M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2006

Research Interests

Machine learning, Data science and Visualization

Teaching Responsibilities

Selected Publications

Komal Kapoor, Mingxuan Sun, Jaideep Srivastava, and Tao Ye, A hazard based approach to user return time prediction, The 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), New York, NY, Aug. 2014.

Mingxuan Sun, Fuxin Li, Joonseok Lee, Ke Zhou, Guy Lebanon, and Hongyuan Zha, Learning Multiple-question Decision Trees for Cold-start Recommendation, The 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Rome, Italy, Feb. 2013.

Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, and Paul Kidwell, Estimating Probabilities in Recommendation Systems, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 61(3):471-492, May 2012.

Joonseok Lee, Mingxuan Sun, Seungyeon Kim, and Guy Lebanon, Automatic Feature Induction for Stagewise Collaborative Filtering, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Lake Tahoe, NV, Dec. 2012.

Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, and Paul Kidwell, Estimating Probabilities in Recommendation Systems, The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2011.

Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, and Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Visualizing Differences in Web Search Algorithms Using the Expected Weighted Hoeffding Distance, The 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2010.