Yefeng Liu

PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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I'm a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate at Distributed and Ubiquitous Computing Lab., Computer Science Department, Waseda University (早稲田大学), Tokyo, Japan. My supervisor is Prof.Tatsuo Nakajima. I also work with Prof. Todorka Alexandrova, and Dr. Vili Lehdonvirta at Oxford Internet Institute.

My interests center on Social Computing Systems and Human-Computer Interaction Systems, specifically Crowd Powered Systems, Social Media, and Knowledge Remix & Reuse. In my research, I design, evaluate and implement on-line systems and services that solve real-world problems, and study the major phenomena surrounding them. Hence, most of my works lies at the intersection of Computer Science, Design, and Social Psychology. Besides academia activities, I also co-founded a mobile Internet startup in Shanghai and server as Product Head since 2011.

Office: 63-505 Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan [Map]
Email: yefengdcl.cs.waseda.ac.jp

I plan to graduate in 2013 summer. I am currently available in the job market, you can find my Curriculum Vitae here.

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Experience

Waseda University (早稲田) Tokyo, Japan

Global-COE Research Associate 2013 -

Research Assistant at International Research Center for Ambient SoC 2010 - 2012


Diggerlab Shanghai, China

Co-founder, Head of Product 2011 -


Microsoft Research Beijing, China

Research Intern at Human-Computer Interaction Group 2012 Summer


Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Helsinki, Finland

Visiting Scholar at Network Society Group 2011 Summer


Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業) Tokyo, Japan

Research Assistant at Distributed Systems Lab. 2009 - 2010

*Dropped out of PhD program due to having new research interests


Swedish Defense Research Agency Stockholm, Sweden

Intern at Division of Command and Control Systems 2009.02 - 2009.08



Education

Waseda University (早稲田大学) Tokyo, Japan

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science with Human Computer Interaction 2010 - 2013


Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden

M.Sc. in Computer Science 2007 - 2009


University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China

B.Sc. in Communication Engineering 2003 - 2007



Publication

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2013

Yefeng Liu, Todorka Alexandrova, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Using Stranger as Sensor: Temporal and Geo-sensitive Question Answering via Social Media". The 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) [15% acceptance rate]

Yefeng Liu, Darren Edge, and Koji Yatani. "SidePoint: A Peripheral Knowledge Panel for Presentation Slide Authoring". The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13) [20% acceptance rate]

Yefeng Liu, Todorka Alexandrova, Satoshi Hirade, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Facilitating Natural Flow of Information among 'Taste-based' Groups". The ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA'13) [45% acceptance rate]

Mizuki Sakamoto, Tatsuo Nakajima, Yefeng Liu, and Todorka Alexandrova. "Achieving Sustainable World base on Micro-level Crowdfunding". The ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA'13) [45% acceptance rate]

2012

Herkko Hietanen, Antti Salovaara, Kumaripaba Miyurusara Atukorala, Yefeng Liu. "< Insert Image>: Helping in the Legal Use of Open Images". The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12) [23% acceptance rate]

Francisco Lepe Salazar, Tetsuo Yamabe, Todorka Alexandrova, Yefeng Liu, Tatsuo Nakajima. "Family Interaction for Responsible Natural Resource Consumption". The ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '12) [32% acceptance rate]

Satoshi Hirade, Ping-Hui Lin, Han Chen, Yefeng Liu, Todorka Alexandrova, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Case Study on Crowdsourcing for Serendipity". IEICE Technical Report, Artificial Artificial intelligence and knowledge-based processing, Volume 111, Issue 447 (2012), Page 1-4

Yefeng Liu, Vili Lehdonvirta, Todorka Alexandrova, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Drawing on Mobile Crowds via Social Media". ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, Volume 18, Issue 1 (2012), Page 53-67 [Impact Factor=1.176]

2011

Yefeng Liu, Todorka Alexandrova, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Gamifying Intelligent Environment". Workshop at ACM Multimedia 2011 (ACM MM'11)

Yefeng Liu, Vili Lehdonvirta, Todorka Alexandrova, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Real-time Crowd Computing using Social Media". 2nd Crowdsourcing Conference (CrowdConf '11)

Yefeng Liu, Todorka Alexandrova, Vili Lehdonvirta, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Mobile Image Search via Local Crowd: a User Study". International Workshop on Cyber‐Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA '11)

Yefeng Liu. "Service Composition Workspace - a Semantic Web Approach". ISBN 978-3-639-37740-8, VDM Publishing, Saarbrücken Germany, August 24th, 2011 [Invited, Non-peer reviewed]

Yefeng Liu, Vili Lehdonvirta, Todorka Alexandrova and Tatsuo Nakajima, "Real-time Crowd Computing". The 8th Global COE International Symposium on Ambient SoC [Best Poster Award]

Yefeng Liu, "A User Study of Crowd Powered Mobile Image Search", Symposium on Interaction with Smart Artifacts, Bilateral DFG-Symposium between Japan and Germany, March 7-9, 2011, Tokyo, Japan. [Invited, non-peer reviewed]

Yefeng Liu, Vili Lehdonvirta, Todorka Alexandrova, Ming Liu, and Tatsuo Nakajima. "Engaging Socal Media - Case Mobile Crowdsourcing". Workshop at International World Wide Web Conference 2011 (WWW 2011)

Xiaodong Lu, Yefeng Liu, et al. "Autonomous Node Allocation Technology for Assuring Heterogeneous Streaming Service Under the Dynamic Environment". IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol.E94-B, No.01, 2011. [Impact Factor=0.359]

2010

Yefeng Liu, Vili Lehdonvirta, Mieke Kleppe, Todorka Alexandrova, Hiroaki Kimura, Tatsuo Nakajima. "A Crowdsourcing Based Mobile Image Translation and Knowledge Sharing Service". The 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2010)



Awards and Honours

Student Scholarship, 22nd Intenational World Wide Web Conference 2013


The third prize (team), China Ping'An Inspirational Entrepreneurship Competition 2012


Microsoft Research Fellow, Microsoft Research Asia 2011


Best Poster Award, The 8th Global COE International Symposium on Ambient SoC 2011


Global-COE Scholarship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2010 - 2013


Japanese Government Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan 2009 - 2012


Adlerbert Assistance Fund, Gothenburg City Government, Sweden 2008



Talks

"Ubiquitous Context Sensing with Strangersourcing", Waseda E-JUST Workshop, Egypt-Japan Uni. of Sci. and Tech., 2013.03, Alexandria, Egypt
"Using Stranger as Sensors", Tokuda Lab, Keio University SFC, 2013.03, Tokyo, Japan
"Stranger-sourcing via Social Media", Global-COE young researcher workshop, 2013.03, Tokyo, Japan
"Human Computation", 36kr.com Open Day, 2012.02, Shanghai, China
"MoboQ: Ask people there, now", Geeks on a Plane: Asia, 2011.10, Shanghai, China
"Crowdsourced Mobile Image Translation and Knowledge Sharing", Global-COE young researcher workshop, 2010.12, Kitakyushu, Japan


Service

Conference Reviewer

International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '13)
The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13)
The Annual Conference of the Specialist HCI group of the BCS (HCI '12, HCI '13)
The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo '11, SocInfo '12)

Grant Assessor

Australian Research Council (ARC)


Membership

2010-, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2010-, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
09-10, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
09-10, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)


Selected Media Coverage

<Crowd-sensing apps tap every stranger's eyes and ears>, New Scientist Magazine, Issue 2910, 2013.03
<告诉我, 你在哪儿>, Economic Weekly Magazine, 2012.12
<包打听微问答>, Entrepreneur (China) Magazine, 2012.06
<面包圈给你答案>, CBNweekly Magazine, Issue.10 2012
<基于地理位置的微问答>, Sina Finance, 2012.03
<不一样的问答服务, 创业公司面包圈让位于该地点的人实时回答你的问题>, 36Kr, 2012.02
<面包圈: 基于地点的即时微问答社区>, TechNode, 2012.02


Links

My Blog (in Chinese)
A HCI Conferences Calendar|Useful
Crowd Research|Useful
Gamification Research Network|Useful
Phd Comics|Fun

Last update: 02/2013