Huiji Gao is an applied researcher at LinkedIn. He received his Ph.D. of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University in 2014, and B.S./M.S. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2007 and 2010, respectively. His research interests include social computing, crowdsourcing for disaster management system, recommender systems, and mobile data mining on location-based social networks. He was awarded the 2014 ASU Graduate Education Dissertation Fellowship, the 2014 ASU President's Award for Innovation, the 3rd Place Dedicated Task 2 Next Location Prediction of Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012, and Student Travel Awards and Scholarships in various conferences.
