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Junfeng Pan

I designed, built, drove and grew large-scale machine learning systems for ads predictions in Facebook from its day one and optimized for multi-billion dollar business. I am proud of it.

Engineering Manager M2/Lead E7
Ads Ranking team, Facebook Inc.
1601 S California Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
United States

Drop me a note if you are interested in joining Facebook.

panjunfeng[at]gmail.com
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What is new?

2016 Represented Facebook and gave tech talks in Melbourne/Sydney. See invite links at Melbourne and Sydney
2015 Represented Facebook and gave tech talks Machine Learning at Scaling Facebook and Practical Lessons Learned in Beijing/Shanghai. See invite links at Beijing and Shanghai
2015 Hosted Keynote Speech at KDD'2015 in Sydney, Australia
2015 Invited Talk at IJCAI'2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Presentation with my paper accepted by ADKDD'2014 on "Practical Lessons from Predicting Clicks on Ads at Facebook".
2013 I am on a featured interview in the magazine! Refer to American Scientist; Sep/Oct2013, Vol. 101 Issue 5, p399
2013 Overarching Tech Lead of Ads Ranking team, Facebook Inc.
2013 I am on the Facebook Academics page! Refer to Sigma Xi Interview with Junfeng Pan
2013 Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics engineers (IEEE)
2012 Tech Lead of Ads Data and Model Engineering, Facebook Inc.
2011 Research Scientist, Facebook Inc.
2010 Google's Prestigious OC Award (a.k.a EMG Award) for my contribution, impact and innovation to Adwords Quality.
2010 Google Peer Bonus Award from Expanded Match Team for my contribution to pattern discovery and the application in keyword classification.
2010 Google Peer Bonus Award from Expanded Match Team for my contribution to query enrichment and the application in keyword matching.
2010 Google Peer Bonus Award from UI Experience Research Team for my contribution to user intent understanding with machine learning.
2010 Google Peer Bonus Award from Google Search Team for my contribution to web-based information extraction framework.
2010 EB-1A Extraordinary Scientist. Permanent Resident. (What is EB-1A?)
2010 EB-1B Outstanding Researcher. Permanent Resident. (What is EB-1B?)
2009 O-1A Extraordinary Scientist (What is O-1A?)
2007 Research Engineer in Google
2007 Visiting Scholar in CS & AI Lab, EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2006 Summer Intern in Google New York City
2005 Champion of ACM KDD Cup world competition (Precision Award, Performance Award and Creativity Award)

Education

Ph.D. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Computer Science, Supervisor Prof. Qiang Yang
B.Sc., Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University , Computer Science, summa cum laude

Professional Services

Conference Co-organizer and Co-Chair

2019 Session Chair on "AI and Web" of the 33rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2015 Host Keynote Speech at the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2015 Session Chair on "Social Network" of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2010 Session Chair on "Physically Grounded AI: Human Behaviors" of the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2010 Session Chair on "Physically Grounded AI: Behaviour Modeling" of the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2009 Session Chair on "Unsupervised Learning" of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2009 Session Chair on "Dimensionality Reduction" of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2008 Co-Organizer of Workshop on Computational Intelligence for the Web, Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS)
2008 Session Chair on "Activity Recognition" of the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2008 Session Chair on "Model Transfer" of the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2008 Publicity Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Power-Aware Pervasive Devices (PerDev)

Conference Program Committee Member

2018 Program Committee member of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2016 Senior Program Committee member of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
2015 Program Committee member of WWW Workshop on TargetAd
2014 Program Committee member of International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR2014)
2014 Program Committee member of 15th International conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM2014)
2014 Program Committee member of International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS2014)
2013 Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Big Data
2012 Program Committee member of the 5th Annual International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD/KDD)
2012 Program Committee member of the Multimedia Data Mining Workshop (MDM/KDD)
2012 Program Committee member of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
2012 Program Committee member of the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI)
2012 Reviewer for the annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
2011 Program Committee member of the 5th Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNA-KDD)
2011 Senior Program Committee member of the 22nd Internal Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2011 Program Committee member of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2011 Program Committee member of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
2011 Program Committee member of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)
2011 Program Committee member of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction (ACHI)
2010 Program Committee member of the 16th annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
2010 Program Committee member of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2010 Program Committee member of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
2010 Program Committee member of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction (ACHI)
2010 Program Committee member of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)
2010 Program Committee member of the 3rd Annual International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD)
2010 Program Committee member of the 2010 Multimedia Data Mining Workshop (MDM/KDD)
2010 Program Committee member of the 2nd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML)
2009 Program Committee member of the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML)
2009 Program Committee member of the Internal Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2009 Program Committee member of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
2009 Program Committee member of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
2009 Program Committee member of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)
2009 Program Committee member of the 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML)
2009 Program Committee member of the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM)
2009 Program Committee member of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
2009 Program Committee member of the the 5th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM)
2009 Program Committee member of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction (ACHI)
2009 Program Committee member of the Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM)
2008 Program Committee member of the IEEE First International Workshop on Generation C Wireless Networks, International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (GenCWiNets)
2008 Program Committee member of the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2008 Program Committee member of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI)
2008 Program Committee member of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)
2008 Program Committee member of the 1st International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction (ACHI)
2007 Program Committee member of the IEEE ICDM Data Mining Contest
2006 Program Committee member of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining and Wireless Sensor Networks (DM-WSN)

Journal Reviewer

Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Special Issue on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (TKDD)
Reviewer for Communications of the ACM (CACM)
Reviewer for IEEE Multimedia
Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Knowledge Discovery and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks (TNN)
Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Reviewer for IEEE Intelligent Systems
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
Reviewer for (Elsevier) Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)

Publications

Practical Lessons from Predicting Clicks on Ads at Facebook [Paper]
Jeffrey J. Pan, et al. The 8th International Workshop on Data Mining for Online Advertising (ADKDD'2014). Co-located with KDD'2014, New York. August, 2014
Tracking Mobile Users in Wireless Networks via Semi-Supervised Co-Localization. [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Jeffrey J. Pan, Sinno J. Pan, Jie Yin,Lionel Ni, Qiang Yang. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. March, 2012.
Semi-Supervised Localization via Action Respecting Manifold
Jeffrey J. Pan, Seth Teller and Qiang Yang. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Intelligent Systems Assisted Cognition. Pasadena, CA. July, 2009
Transferring Multi-device Localization Models using Latent Multi-task Learning.. [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Vincent W. Zheng, Sinno Jialin Pan, Qiang Yang and Jeffrey J. Pan. In Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08) July, 2008.
Sensor-Based Abnormal Human-Activity Detection for Security Monitoring. [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Jie Yin, Qiang Yang and Jeffrey J. Pan. Special Issue on Intelligence and Security Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
Digital Wall: A Power-efficient Solution for Location-based Data Sharing
Jeffrey J. Pan, Sinno J. Pan, Vincent W. Zheng and Qiang Yang. In Proceeding of PerCom-08 Workshop on Power-Aware Pervasive Devices (PerDev-08), Hong Kong. March 2008.
Online Co-Localization in Indoor Wireless Networks by Dimension Reduction. [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Jeffrey J. Pan, Qiang Yang, Jialin Pan. In Proceedings of the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) July, 2007. Regular paper.
Adaptive Localization in a Dynamic WiFi Environment Through Multi-view Learning. [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Jialin Pan, James T. Kwok, Qiang Yang, Jeffrey J. Pan. In Proceedings of the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) July, 2007. Regular paper.
Domain-Constrained Semi-Supervised Mining of Tracking Models in Sensor Networks. [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Rong Pan, Junhui Zhao, Wenchen Zheng, Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Dou Shen, Jialin Pan, and Qiang Yang. ACM SIGKDD. San Jose, USA. August 2007.
Cost-Sensitive-Data Preprocessing for Mining Customer Relationship Management Databases. [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Jeffrey J. Pan, Qiang Yang, Yiming Yang, Lei Li, Francis T. Li and George W. Li. IEEE Intelligent Systems. (Vol. 22, No. 1). Pages 46-51. January/February 2007.
Co-Localization from Labeled and Unlabeled Data Using Graph Laplacian (in Wireless and Sensor Networks). [Paper][Slides][Bibtex]
Jeffrey J. Pan, Qiang Yang. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07). Hyderabad, India. Jan, 2007. Regular paper.
Multidimensional vector regression for accurate and low-cost location estimation in pervasive computing. [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]
Jeffrey J. Pan, James T. Kwok, Qiang Yang, Yiqiang Chen. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). Sept. 2006.
A Manifold Regularization Approach to Calibration Reduction for Sensor-Network Based Tracking. [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]
Jeffrey J. Pan, Qiang Yang, Hong Chang, Dit-Yan Yeung. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06).
Accurate and low-cost location estimation using kernels. [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]
Jeffrey J. Pan, James T. Kwok, Qiang Yang, Yiqiang Chen. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), July 2005.
Q²C@UST: Our Winning Solution to Query Classification in KDD Cup 2005. [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex] [Demo]
Dou Shen, Rong Pan, Jian-Tao Sun, Jeffrey J. Pan, Kangheng Wu, Jie Yin and Qiang Yang. SIGKDD Explorations. Page 100-110. Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2005.
Competence-driven case-based mining. [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]
Rong Pan, Qiang Yang, Jeffrey J. Pan, Lei Li. In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05).
Query Enrichment for Web-query Classification. [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex] [Demo]
Dou Shen, Rong Pan, Jian-Tao Sun, Jeffrey J. Pan, Kangheng Wu, Jie Yin and Qiang Yang. Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Pages 1-33. Vol. 24, No. 3, July 2006.
Fast speaker adaptation via maximum penalized likelihood kernel regression. [Paper] [Slides] [Bibtex]
Ivor W. Tsang, James T. Kwok, Brian Mak, Kai Zhang, Jeffrey J. Pan. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-06), Toulouse, France, May 2006.
The Principal and Improvement of Hot Fix for S12-Switch.
Junbiao Pan, Jeffrey J. Pan. Science and Research of Telecommunications, Pages 56-64, Vol.7 No.2, June 2003.
Programming in PHP
Jiancong Bai, Jeffrey J. Pan and Jianbo Luo. China Machine Press, ISBN-7111-08596-5, January 2001.

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