Experience

🎓 Education

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
  • Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering (2017 - 2021)
  • Thesis title: Building Versatile Conversational Agents with Unified Generative Networks
  • Thesis Committee: Pascale Fung, Bertram Shi, Qifeng Chen, Yanqiu Song, Chen Yun-Nung
• University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
  • B.E. in Electronic Engineering (2013 - 2017)
  • GPA: 3.90/4.00 (Top 2%)

🧑‍💻 Working Experience

• Facebook, Facebook Reality Labs
  • Position: Research Scientist (2021-present)
  • Working on Conversational AI
• Facebook, Facebook Reality Labs
  • Position: Research Intern (2020)
  • Designed domain transferable dialogue state tracking models (e.g., T5DST, TransferQA) for task-oriented dialogues.

🗃️ Professional Activity

• Reviewer and Program Committee
  • Conferences: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, ARR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NLPCC
  • Journals: Artificial Intelligence, Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Neural Processing Letters
  • Workshops: MetaNLP, SustaiNLP, EANCS, NLP4ConvAI
• Talk
  • Deeper Conversational AI tutorial at NeurIPS 2020

🏆 Awards

• Best Paper Awards ConvAI@NeurIPS 2019 for Attention Over Paramters for Dialogue Systems
• Best Paper Awards RepL4NLP@ACL 2019 for Learning Multilingual Meta-Embeddings for Code-Switching Named Entity Recognition.