Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- Aug. 2018 ~ Dec, 2022, with Prof. Xiang Ren
- Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery Lab (USC-INK)
- Annenberg Fellowship Award
Bachelor in Computer Science (IEEE Honor Class)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Sept. 2014 ~ Jun. 2018, with Prof. Kenny Q. Zhu
- Best Bachelor Thesis Award (Top 1% at SJTU)
Work Experience
University of Washington - Affiliate Assistant Professor
Nov. 2024 – Now
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Allen Institute for AI - Research Scientist
Feb. 2023 – Now
- Manager: Prof. Yejin Choi
- Team: Mosaic & Aristo
Facebook AI Research - Research Intern
May. 2021 – Dec. 2021
- Manager: Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Peers: Sida Wang, Lin Xiao, Robin Jia, Victoria Lin
- Continual Model Refinement for Online OOD Generalization –> ACL 2022
Google AI - Research Intern
May. 2020 – Aug. 2020
- Manager: William W. Cohen
- Peers: Haitian Sun, Bhuwan Dhingra, Manzil Zaheer
- Commonsense Reasoning with Virtual Knowledge Base –> NAACL 2021
Google AI - Research Intern
May. 2019 – Aug. 2019
- Manager: Sandeep Tata
- Peers: Ying Sheng, Nguyen Vo
- Structured Data Extraction over Web Documents. –> KDD 2020
Microsoft Research Asia - Research Intern
Sept. 2017 – Mar. 2018
- Manager: Jian-Guang Lou
- Semantic Parsing and Question Answering for Tabular Data Analysis.
StatNLP Group - Visiting Research Assistant
Jun. 2017 – Sept. 2017
- Advisor: Prof. Wei Lu
- Transfer Learning and Information Extraction –> EMNLP 2018
Services
Tutorials
Complex Reasoning in Natural Language (@ACL 2023)
- Co-authors: Wenting Zhao (Cornell), Mor Geva (Google), Michihiro Yasunaga (Stanford), Aman Madaan (CMU), Tao Yu (HKU)
Knowledge Augmented Methods for NLP (@ACL 2022 & @WSDM 2023)
- Co-authors: Chenguang Zhu (Microsoft), Xiang Ren (USC), Meng Jiang (NDU), Wenhao Yu (NDU), Yichong Xu (Microsoft)
Conferences
Senior Area Chair
- ACL 2025 (Language Modeling)
Area Chair
- EMNLP 2024
- EMNLP 2023 (Interactive System and Dialog Track)
- ACL 2023 (Question Answering Track)
Program Committe Member / Reviewer
- EMNLP 2018-2023, ACL 2020-2023, NAACL 2020-2022, COLING 2020, ACL Rolling Review (since 2021)
- ICML 2022-2024, NeurIPS 2021-2024, ICLR 2021-2024
- AAAI 2020-2023, IJCAI 2020
- AACL-IJCNLP 2020, CCL 2020, NLPCC 2019, AKBC 2020-2021
- TKDE (Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering)
- TMLR (Transactions on Machine Learning Research)
Workshops
Organizers
Program Committe Member (Reviewer)
- RepL4NLP@ACL (19-21), EMNLP19-DeepLo, ACL19-SRW, ICLR19-LLD
Honors
- Best Paper Award, TrustNLP 2021.
- AI Rising Stars in Chinese Students by Baidu Research (2021)
- Best Paper Runner-Up, WWW 2020
- Travel Support for ACL2018, ACL Walker Fund, 2018
- Best Bachelor Thesis Award (Top 1% at SJTU & 1st in the CSE Department), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018
- Annenberg Fellowship Award, University of Southern California, 2018
- Yuanqing Yang’s Scholarship (CNY 25k), the foundation of Class 1988 in CS@Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018
- Qide Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018
- Excellent Undergraduate Sutdent Scholarship, Shanghai City, 2016-2017
- Academic Excellence Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016-2017