Updates:
May 2022: A paper accepted by *SEM 2022 (w/ Xiaodong Yu and Prof. Dan Roth)
April 2022: Awarded "2022 Chinese Young Scholar Leader in Artificial Intelligence"
April 25, 2022: Gave an invited talk at Fudan University, China
April 2022: A new paper about Task-completion Dialogue System is accepted as NAACL'22 Findings. (w/ Chang Tian and Prof. Marie-Francine Moens at KU Leuven)
March 2022: A new paper about Task-Oriented Dialogue is publicly available
Hi, I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at Temple University, where I lead the LanguageX lab.
Recent Research:
Zero/few-shot NLP & Data Augmentation: [EMNLP2019], [COLING2020], [ACL2021], [NAACL2021]
Indirect Supervision (e.g., by textual entailment): [NAACL2021], [ACL2021],[EMNLP2020]
Information Extraction: [Arxiv 2020], [Arxiv 2021]
Trustworthy NLP (e.g., fack-checking): [arXiv 2020], [NAACL2019], [EMNLP2018]
Professional Activities:
Senior Area Chairs: NAACL'2021
Area Chairs: NAACL'2019, ACL'2019, ACL'2021, NLPCC'21, ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Senior PC Member: AAAI (2021)
PC member: AAAI(2019, 2020), IJCAI(2017,2018,2019), ACL(2016,2017,2018), NAACL(2016,2018), EMNLP(2016,2017,2018,2019,2020), COLING(2016,2018), EACL'2017, IJCNLP'2017, LREC'2018, NLPCC'2018, CCL(2016,2017), Repl4NLP(2019), CoNLL(2019)
Standing reviewer:
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
Computational Linguistics
Work&Education Experience:
Senior Research Scientist. Salesforce Research, Palo Alto. Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2021.
Postdoc. Supervisor: Prof. Dan Roth. University of Pennsylvania. Oct 2017 - July 2019.
Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Hinrich Schütze. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. 2017
Intern, IBM Watson, Yorktown Heights, NY USA. Feb. 27 -- May 30, 2016.
MSc. Supervisor: Prof. Xiaoming Li & Dr. Lian'en Huang; Peking University, China, 2013.
BSc. Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2010.
Invited Talks:
"Learning from Task Instructions -- the New Wave of NLP Research". Fudan University, China. April 26, 2022
"Representation Learning in Textual Entailment'', National Institutes of Health (NIH), Maryland, USA, Dec. 10, 2018
"Neural Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs'', University of Oxford & Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. March 2017
Honors and Awards:
Awarded "2022 Chinese Young Scholar Leader in Artificial Intelligence"
Paper awarded "Area Chair Favorites" in COLING'2018
Google Grant, *SEM@NAACL'2018
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (国家优秀自费留学生奖学金), 2016
Baidu Ph.D. Fellowship, 2014 & 2015
Google Travel Grant for ACL2014
Best Paper Award in WISE'2013
National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2012
Guanghua Scholarship, Peking University, 2012
Pacesetter of Outstanding Students, Peking University, 2012