Personal Information

He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University. His research focuses on natural language processing, large language models, and their application in education field.     [中文主页]
Before that, He was a principal algorithm engineer for Machine Translation team at Shopee,
the leader of machine translation algorithm team at DAMO Academy Alibaba Group,
the leader of MT group in Samsung R&D center BJ and a key member for Sogou translation.
He got his Ph.D. degree at Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Qun Liu.

News

2024.03: I joined the School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University as an Associate Professor.
2022.06: Our paper Learning to Generalize to More: Continuous Semantic Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation wins the outstanding paper award in ACL2022 !

Work Experience

  • 2024-present: Beijing Normal University, Associate Professor
  • 2022-2024: Shopee, Principal algorithm engineer, leader of MT innovation team
  • 2017-2022: Alibaba DAMO Academy, Senior Expert Engineer, leader of MT algorithm team
  • 2016-2017: Sogou Inc, Research engineer of MT group
  • 2014-2016: Samsung R&D center Beijing, Leader of MT group
  • 2013/05-11: City University of New York, visiting scholar, advised by Prof. Liang Huang

Publication

Google Scholar Profile

Professional Services

  • Member of Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Youth Working Committee
  • PC Member & Reviewer: ACL (2016-2022), EMNLP (2018-2020), AAAI (2019,2020), EACL (2019), COLING (2018-2022)

Honours

  • ACL 2022 Outstanding paper award
  • The Second prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of ZheJiang Province 2018
  • The DAMO awards from Alibaba DAMO Academy 2021
  • CSDN Technology leader award 2020
  • Alibaba Outstanding Academic Cooperation Project Award 2019 (with Deyi Xiong from Tianjin University)
  • Outstanding Team Award from Sogou Search Business Division - Machine Translation Team, 2016
  • Individual Innovation Award from Samsung R&D Center Beijing, 2016
  • Tecent Scholarship for UCAS 2013
  • Second Price Winner of National Mathematic Contest In Modeling, 2008