Yingkai Gao


IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Email: kyle.ygao AT gmail.com OR yingkaig AT cs.cmu.edu

I am now an research software engineer at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, working for the Knowledge and Reasoning group. Before joining IBM, I was a master student and research assistant at Language Technologies Institute(LTI), Carnegie Mellon University(CMU), advised by Professor Jamie Callan.

I have broad interests in language technologies, especially information retrieval, information extraction, and machine learning approaches in these areas. I received my B.S. in Computer Science at Beihang University, China. In 2013, I spent 9 months at Microsoft Research Asia, Knowledge Mining Group, as a research intern, working with Lead Researcher Yunbo Cao on grounding search enging queries to knowledge base attributes. In Fall 2012, I was an exchange student at National University of Singapore. Supervised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua, I was a part-time developer at NExT Search Center on a real-time user generated content crawler.