Miao Fan
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aPlHReAAAAAJ
Chief scientist and Head of AI at Navinfo Co., Ltd
Adjunct associate professor of Renmin University of China
Member of IEEE, CIE and CSGPC
Ph.D. on computer science of Tsinghua University
Author of books "Machine Learning with Python for Kaggle Competitions" and "AI Programming with Python in Practice"
20+ top-tier papers with 1200+ citations
40+ granted patents and 8 software copyrights
Employment History
• Navinfo Co., Ltd.
Chief Scientist & Head of AI （2022.12 — Now）
• Momenta
Senior Director （2022.6 — 2022.12）
• Baidu Inc.
Staff Scientist （2017.7 — 2022.6）
Education
• Baidu Inc. & Tsinghua University
Postdoctoral Fellow （2017.10 — 2019.11）
• Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Ph.D. with Dean's Honor （2012.9 — 2017.6）
• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Visiting Scholar （2015.3 — 2016.3）
• Software Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
B.Eng. （2008.9 — 2012.6）
Research Grants
• Research on integrating online perception and offline maps for HD maps construction for autonomous driving systems
Natural Science Foundation of Beijing, China
Principal Investigator (2024-2027)
• Research on big data processing and analysis system for autonomous driving
Key Science and Technology Program of Shaanxi Province, China
Principal Investigator (2024-2026)
• Research on updating HD maps by crowdsourcing technology with autonomous vehciles
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Co-Principal Investigator (2023-2026)
Monographs
• AI Programming with Python in Practice
Miao Fan, Shengtong Xu （Tsinghua University Press）
• Machine Learning with Python for Kaggle Competitions (2nd Edition)
Miao Fan, Shengtong Xu （Tsinghua University Press）
• Machine Learning with Python for Kaggle Competitions (1st Edition)
Miao Fan, Chao Li （Tsinghua University Press）
Social Services
Renmin University of China
Adjunct associate professor
Publications (Selected)
• Distributed Representation Learning for Knowledge Graphs with Entity Descriptions
Miao Fan, Qiang Zhou, Thomas Fang Zheng, Ralph Grishman
Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier. [J]
• Probabilistic Belief Embedding for Large-Scale Knowledge Population
Miao Fan, Qiang Zhou, Andrew Abel, Thomas Fang Zheng, Ralph Grishman
Cognitive Computation, Springer. [J]
• Personalized Query Auto-Completion for Large-Scale POI Search at Baidu Maps
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Jinyi Lei, Haifeng Wang, Enhong Chen
Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, ACM. [J]
• Neural HD Map Generation from Multiple Vectorized Tiles Locally Produced by Autonomous Vehicles
Miao Fan, Yi Yao, Jianping Zhang, Xiangbo Song, Daihui Wu
SpatialDI'24. [C]
• DuMapper：Towards Automatic Verification of Large-Scale POIs with Street Views at Baidu Maps
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang
CIKM'22. [C]
• Meta-Learned Spatial-Temporal POI Auto-Completion for the Search Engine at Baidu Maps
Miao Fan, Yibo Sun, Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Ying Li
KDD'21. [C]
• HGAMN：Heterogeneous Graph Attention Matching Network for Multilingual POI Retrieval at Baidu Maps
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Yibo Sun, Miao Fan, Zhengjie Huang, Chunyuan Yuan, Yawen Li
KDD'21. [C]
• Curriculum Meta-Learning for Next POI Recommendation
Yudong Chen, Xin Wang, Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, Shengwen Yang, Wenwu Zhu
KDD'21. [C]
• DOLG：Single-Stage Image Retrieval with Deep Orthogonal Fusion of Local and Global Features
Min Yang, Dongliang He, Miao Fan, Baorong Shi, Xuetong Xue, Fu Li, Errui Ding, Jizhou Huang
ICCV'21. [C]
• Semi-Supervised Variational Reasoning for Medical Dialogue Generation
Dongdong Li, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Miao Fan, Jun Ma, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR'21. [C]
• GEDIT：Geographic-Enhanced and Dependency-Guided Tagging for Joint POI and Accessibility Extraction at Baidu Maps
Yibo Sun, Jizhou Huang, Yuanchun Yuan, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin
CIKM'21. [C]
• Understanding the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Transportation-related Behaviors with Human Mobility Data
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Miao Fan, An Zhuo, Yibo Sun, Ying Li
KDD'20. [C]
• Personalized Prefix Embedding for POI Auto-Completion in the Search Engine of Baidu Maps
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Miao Fan, An Zhuo, Ying Li
KDD'20. [C]
• A Reinforced Semi-supervised Neural Network for Helpful Review Identification
Yue Feng, Miao Fan, Mingming Sun, Ping Li
CIKM'20. [C]
• A Multistage Ranking Strategy for Personalized Hotel Recommendation with Human Mobility Data
Yiwei Li, Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, Kan Li
ICTIR'20. [C]
• MOBIUS：Towards the Next Generation of Query-Ad Matching in Baidu's Sponsored Search
Miao Fan, Jiacheng Guo, Shuai Zhu, Shuo Miao, Mingming Sun, Ping Li
KDD'19. [C]
• MONOPOLY：Learning to Price Public Facilities for Revaluing Private Properties with Large-scale Urban Data
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, An Zhuo, Ying Li, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CIKM'19. [C]
• Large Margin Prototypical Network for Few-shot Relation Classification with Fine-grained Features
Miao Fan, Yeqi Bai, Mingming Sun, Ping Li
CIKM'19. [C]
• Reinforced Product Metadata Selection for Helpfulness Assessment of Reviews
Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li
EMNLP'19. [C]
• Product-Aware Helpfulness Prediction of Online Reviews
Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Lin Guo, Mingming Sun, Ping Li
WWW'19. [C]
• Reading Customer Reviews to Answer Product-related Questions
Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
SDM'19. [C]
• Learning to Discover Curbside Parking Spaces from Vehicle Trajectories
Yuxin Wen, Jizhou Huang, Chongli Zhu, Miao Fan, Ying Li
IEEE BigData'19. [C]
• A Globalization-Semantic Matching Neural Network for Paraphrase Identification
Miao Fan, Wutao Lin, Mingming Sun, Yue Feng, Ping Li
CIKM'18. [C]
• Learning Embedding Representations for Knowledge Inference on Imperfect and Incomplete Repositories
Miao Fan, Qiang Zhou, Thomas Fang Zheng
WI-IAT'16. [C]
• Jointly Embedding Relations and Mentions for Knowledge Population
Miao Fan, Kai Cao, Yifan He, Ralph Grishman
RANLP'15. [C]
• Large Margin Nearest Neighbor Embedding for Knowledge Representation
Miao Fan, Qiang Zhou, Thomas Fang Zheng, Ralph Grishman
WI-IAT'15. [C]
• Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with Matrix Completion
Miao Fan, Deli Zhao, Qiang Zhou, Zhiyuan Liu, Thomas Fang Zheng, Edward Y. Chang
ACL'14. [C]
• Content-based Semantic Tag Ranking for Recommendation
Miao Fan, Qiang Zhou, Thomas Fang Zheng
WI-IAT'12. [C]
Granted Patents (Selected)
• Method and Device for Evaluating Comment Quality, and Computer Readable Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11756094B2
• Method and Apparatus for Presenting Information
Miao Fan, Lin Guo, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11651015B2
• Method for Sorting Geographic Location Point, Method for Training Sorting Model and Corresponding Apparatuses
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, Yufan Hou
US Patent No.：US11556601B2
• Method and Apparatus for Generating Information Assessment Model
Miao Fan, Sen Ye, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11521016B2
• Method, Apparatus, Computer Device and Readable Medium for Knowledge Hierarchical Extraction of a Text
Miao Fan, Sen Ye, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11514247B2
• POI Valuation Method, Apparatus, Device and Computer Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, An Zhuo, Ying Li, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11468349B2
• Method and Apparatus for Responding to Question, and Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11461399B2
• Method, Apparatus, Device and Storage Medium for Evaluating Quality of Answer
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11409964B2
• Method and Apparatus for Identifying Traffic Accident, Device and Computer Storage Medium
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Hao Zhang, Miao Fan
US Patent No.：US11328600B2
• Method and Apparatus for Determining Response for User Input Data, and Medium
Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11238050B2
• Method, Apparatus for Evaluating Review, Device and Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11403680B2
• Method and Device for Information Retrieval, Device and Computer Readable Storage Medium
Miao Fan, Zehao Dou, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
US Patent No.：US11055374B2
• Method and Apparatus for Building Synonymy Discriminating Model and Method and Apparatus for Discriminating Synonymous Text
Miao Fan, Mingming Sun, Wutao Lin, Ping Li
US Patent No.：US10776578B2
• Message processing method, device, equipment and computer storage medium
Shengtong Xu, Xiao Yang, Chao Wang, Miao Fan
CN Patent No.：CN112003778B
• Method, device, equipment and computer storage medium for query automatic completion
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN111222058B
• Method, device, equipment and computer storage medium for query automatic completion
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN111241427B
• Method for establishing sequencing model, method for automatically completing query and corresponding device
Ying Li, Jizhou Huang, Miao Fan, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN111221952B
• Method for extracting spatial relation of geographic position points and method and device for training extraction model
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Wei Zhang, Miao Fan
CN Patent No.：CN111737383B
• Method, device and equipment for POI value evaluation and computer storage medium
Miao Fan, Jizhou Huang, An Zhuo, Ying Li, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN110659433B
• Traffic accident recognition method, device, equipment and computer storage medium
Jizhou Huang, Haifeng Wang, Hao Zhang, Miao Fan
CN Patent No.：CN111859291B
• Method, device, equipment and storage medium for evaluating comments
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN108363790B
• Method and device for pushing information
Miao Fan, Tong Zhou, Jizhou Huang
CN Patent No.：CN113495942B
• Information retrieval method, device, equipment and computer readable medium
Miao Fan, Jinxing Yu, Zehao Dou, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN110633407B
• Method, apparatus, device and computer readable storage medium for information retrieval
Miao Fan, Zehao Dou, Mingming Sun, Haifeng Wang
CN Patent No.：CN110674429B
• Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for updating model parameters
Miao Fan, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li
CN Patent No.：CN110399547B
• Method and Device for Establishing Synonymous Identification Model and Identifying Synonymous Text
Miao Fan, Mingming Sun, Wutao Lin, Ping Li
CN Patent No.：CN107797985B
Software Copyright Registration (Selected)
• GNMap：矢量化高精地图的多轮融合生成软件 （V1.0）
Miao Fan, Yi Yao, Xiangbo Song
Registration No. (CN)：2024SR0080866
• UNiNet-Pro：高精地图通用目标的云上一体视觉感知平台（V1.0）
Miao Fan, Yi Yao, Xiangbo Song, Xiang Li
Registration No. (CN)：2023SR1508587
• UNiNet-Backbone：高精地图全要素的视觉自注意学习与大规模挖掘平台（V1.0 & V2.0）
Miao Fan, Yi Yao, Xuxu Kong
Registration No. (CN)：2023SR0762065 & 2023SR1021672
• UNiNet-Cls：自然场景下交通标志的实时视觉识别软件（V1.0）
Miao Fan, Yi Yao
Registration No. (CN)：2023SR1029817
• UNiNet-Seg：自然场景下道路要素的实时视觉分割与提取软件（V1.0）
Yi Yao, Miao Fan
Registration No. (CN)：2023SR1508594
• UNiNet-Det：自然场景下道路目标的实时视觉检测软件（V1.0）
Yi Yao, Miao Fan, Xiangbo Song
Registration No. (CN)：2024SR0078845