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Hi, I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, where I lead the LanguageX lab. 

Recent Research:

• NLP problems

  • Dialogue System: [arXiv'22], [NAACL'22]

  • Information Extraction: [*SEM'22],[TACL'22] [EACL'23]

  • Natural Language Inference & Fact-Checking: [EMNLP'18], [NAACL'19], [EMNLP'20], [ACL'21]

  • Document Summarization: [IJCAI'15], [Nature Digital Medicine, 2021]

• Learning problems

  • Zero-shot & Few-shot Learning: [EMNLP'20], [NAACL'21], [CoNLL'22]

  • Learning from Task Instructions: [EMNLP2019], [ACL2022], [ACL2023], [EMNLP'23 Tutorial], [Arxiv'23-a], [Arxiv'23-b]

  • Learning from Indirect Supervision: [NAACL2021], [ACL2021], [EMNLP2020], [CoNLL2022], [ACL'23 Tutorial] 

  • Incremental Learning: [EMNLP2020], [NAACL2021], [ACL2022]

  • Trustworthy AI (e.g., system explainability, system robustness): [arXiv 2020], [arXiv'20], [ACL'23]

  • Improving training: Mixup-Transformer [COLING'20], BatchMixup [ACL'21], Learning to Select from Multiple Options [AAAI'23]

Professional Activities:

• Co-Chair: Wise-Supervision 2022 (workshop co-located with AKBC2022)

• Senior Area Chairs: NAACL'2021, ACL Rolling Review (ARR), IJCNLP-AACL'23, LREC-COLING'24, EACL'24

• Area Chairs: NAACL'2019, ACL'2019, ACL'2021, NLPCC'21&23, CCL'23, ACL'2023, EMNLP'23

• Senior PC Member: AAAI (2021, 2023)

Work&Education Experience:

• Assistant professor. Temple University. Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022

• 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:

• "Generalizable Information Extraction". AWS AI Labs. March 14, 2023

• "Learning from Task Instructions -- A New Learning Paradigm for NLP". Penn State University. July 28, 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 Global Top Chinese Young Scholars 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