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

Allen Institute for AI - Postdoctoral Young Investigator

Feb. 2023 – Now

Facebook AI Research - Research Intern

May. 2021 – Dec. 2021

Google AI - Research Intern

May. 2020 – Aug. 2020

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

Area Chair

  • 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 May 2021)
  • ICML 2022-2023, NeurIPS 2021-2023, ICLR 2021-2023, 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