News
2021
| 05-11 | Selected as one of the AI Rising Stars in Chinese Students by Baidu Research. |
| 05-06 | We have two full papers on commonsense reasoning accepted to ACL2021 (1 long + 1 findings): X-CSR and RiddleSense! |
| 04-17 | Releasing FedNLP-- A research platform for Federated Learning in NLP. [Tweet] |
| 04-17 | A new arXiv preprint with Qinyuan, CʀᴏssFɪᴛ: A Few-shot Learning Challenge for Cross-Task Generalization in NLP. [Tweet] |
| 04-07 | Our works on commonsense reasoning got covered by an article on Communications of the ACM: The Best of NLP. |
| 03-15 | Finally passed my qual exam and officially became a PhD Candidate now. [Slides] |
| 01-25 | Releasing Rebiber, a simple tool to fix outdated arXiv citations! [Twitter] |
| 01-20 | Check out our ICLR 2021 paper on pre-training text-to-text transformers for common sense. |
2020
| 11-30 | Media coverage of CommonGen: The Register , Tech Xplore , Techzine , Radio.com , ScienceDaily , USC Viterbi ! |
| 11-06 | We will explore the connections between #CommonsenseAI and #ConversationalAI in the 4th Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge, as a team at USC-ISI! |
| 10-23 | Check our work in progress on Open-Ended Commonsense Reasoing, with Haitian, Bhuwan, Manzil, Xiang and William! |
| 10-20 | We got 3 papers in EMNLP20: CommonGen, NumerSense, and MHGRN. |
| 06-26 | Invited talk on "Neuro-Symoblic Commonsense Reasoning" virtually at Fudan University hosted by Prof. Zhongyu Wei. |
| 05-15 | My google internship work was accepted to KDD 2020 as a full research paper! Thanks to my amazing mentors: Ying, Nguyen, and Sandeep! |
| 04-23 | Our NERO paper got BEST PAPER Runner-Up (2 out of 1500 submissions) in The Web Conf (WWW) 2020. |
| 04-03 | Three papers have been accepted to the ACL 2020! Thanks to my wonderful collaborators. |
2019
| 12-19 | Had a great week in Beijing & invited talks at THU (hosted by Prof. Zhiyuan Liu), MSRA (hosted by Dr. Nan Duan), and PKU (hosted by Yansong Feng). |
| 12-01 | I will work as a research intern at Google AI again in 2020 summer, with William W. Cohen's team in Pittsburgh. |
| 11-13 | Invited talk on "Commonsense Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding and Generation" at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. |
| 11-02 | Traveling for EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 in Hong Kong, China. |
| 08-12 | Our work KagNet for commonsense reasoning is accepted as an long paper (w/ oral presentation) to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019. |
| 08-01 | The AlpacaTag annotation framework (ACL 2019 demo) is online now! |
| 05-19 | Our work in building active learning-based sequence tagging annotation framework has been accepted to ACL 2019. |
| 01-10 | Will take a research internship at Google AI in the comming summer! |
2018
| 11-11 | Had my very first travel in Europe for the EMNLP! Love Paris, Amsterdam, and Brussels!!! |
| 08-10 | Two papers have been accepted to the EMNLP 2018 !! |
| 07-24 | Attended the ACL 2018 and had a wonderful travel in Melbourne & Sydney! |
| 06-27 | Succeeded in my Bachelor's Thesis Defense and earned Best Thesis Award (Top 1% at SJTU & 1st in the CSE Department.) |
| 05-29 | Invited as a reviewer of EMNLP 2018! |
| 05-29 | Will be a volunteer for the ACL 2018. And thanks to the ACL Walker Fund for the support towards my travel expenses. |
| 04-21 | Two papers have been accepted to the ACL 2018 !! |
| 04-03 | I will become a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at USC/ISI with an Annenberg Fellowship Award this fall. |