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