CV
Education
- Ph.D, Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013-2018
- B.Eng., Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2009-2013
Experience
- August 2018 - Present
- Research Scientist at Meta
- Working on ads ranking personalization in the Ads Ranking and Foundational AI team.
- Working on user modeling and representation learning.
- August 2013 - August 2018
- Research Assistant at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- Supervisor: Dr. C. Lee Giles
- Conducted research on machine learning methods for building educational applications.
- Studied concept prerequisite learning and automatic distractor generation for question generation.
- May 2017 - August 2017
- Intern at Search Ranking team in Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
- Worked on click modeling to improve the opinion search product.
- Supervisor: Dr. Zhen Liao
- May 2016 - August 2016
- Research Intern at Natual Language Processing Group in Bosch Research and Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA
- Worked on natural language understanding using deep learning.
- Proposed a RNN-based joint model for both slot filling and intent detection. Improved Bosch’s search engine to better understand users’ intent.
- June 2015 - August 2015
- Research Intern at Data Analytics Group in Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Doha, Qatar
- Worked on methods for automatic risk of bias analysis for clinical trials.
- Contributed to Rayyan, a tool to help systematic review authors perform their job.
- Supervisor: Dr. Mourad Ouzzani
- June 2011 - July 2013
- Research Assistant at Natual Language Processing Group in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Conducted research on keyphrase extraction and expert finding.
- Supervisor: Dr. Zhiyuan Liu
Patents
- Systems and methods for news event organization. US9817908B2. Nov 14, 2017
Honors and Awards
- Excellent Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, 2013
- Aeon Scholarship, 2011
Professional Services
- Program Committee
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): 2019
- Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA): 2020, 2019, 2018
- Reviewers
