SUSIE XI RAO / RESEARCHER / PHD CANDIDATE

Affiliations

• DS3Lab, Department of Computer Science (INFK), ETH Zurich
• Chair of Applied Economics, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (MTEC), ETH Zurich
  

Research background and areas

With a background in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Susie Rao is now working as a Data Science researcher at the Chair of Applied Economics and a PhD candidate at the DS3Lab under the co-supervision Prof. Ce Zhang (technical) and Prof. Peter Egger (domain). She graduated from the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich (Director: Prof. Martin Volk).

Her research interests are dynamic network analysis, information extraction, natural language processing and their applicability to various domains such as bibliometrics, e-commerce, and applied economics.

She has been working on the following research projects:

• pattern matching and record linkage in large databases, e.g.,
  • record linkage in Chinese firm-level and transaction-level DBs (finalized);
• information extraction and categorization in legal text such as international investment treaties and court cases, e.g.,
  • Automatic Labeling of Articles in International Investment Agreements (Machine Learning and Word Embeddings) (finalized);
• fraud detection, e.g.,
  • xFraud (finalized);
  • Dynamic HGNN (finalized);
  • Real-time fraud detection (finalized);
• topology and endogeneity of firm-product-trade network and discipline connectedness in the “Web” of Science as well as the interplay between patents and scholarly publications (ongoing).
  • Hierarchical classification of subfields in CS/Econ.

Contact me: srao@ethz.ch

Recommended subject fields :-) e.g.,

• [bachelor thesis]
• [master thesis]
• [semester project]
• [collaboration]

Related links

For more infomation about DS3Lab, visit ds3lab.org.
For more infomation about Chair of Applied Economics, visit https://cae.ethz.ch.