Bio

Education

Aug, 2006 - 2011. Ph.D, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Sep, 2002 - Jul, 2006. Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Sep, 1989 - Jul, 2002. Elementary school, middle school and high school, Taian, Shandong.

Research Fundings

PI. Distributed Representation Learning, Knowledge Acquisition and Inference Applications of Large-Scale Knowledge Graphs (61572273). National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2016-2019.
PI. Robust Full-document Entity Recognition and Disambiguation with Large-Scale Knowledge Bases. MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Media and Networking Technology, Tsinghua University. 2014-2015.
PI. Efficient Chinese Entity Linking for Large-scale Web Corpus to Heterogeneous Entity Networks. MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Media and Networking Technology, Tsinghua University. 2013-2014.
PI. Research on Information Diffusion and Credibility in Social Media based on Collaborative Semantics. National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2013-2015.
Project member (rank 2nd). Research on Chinese Keyword Annotation by Integrating Keyword Extraction and Social Tag Suggestion. 2012-2015, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
Project member (rank 2nd). Research on Attributes, Structure and Evolutionary Dynamics of Chinese Complex Networks, 2009-2011, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
Project member. Research on Semantic Classification and Understanding of Large-scale Web Image and Text Data, 2007-2009, National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program).

Awards

2022 Best Demo Paper Award of ACL 2022 (OpenPrompt: An Open-source Framework for Prompt-learning, with Ning Ding, Shengding Hu, Weilin Zhao as co-first authors).
2020 Best Short Paper Award of SIGIR 2020 (Few-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting, with Shi Yu as the first author).
2020 Most Influential Scholar Award (AI 2000) in AAAI/IJCAI and Honorable Mention in NLP.
2019 Young Scientist of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).
2018 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, China.
2017 Scholar of Young Talent Promoting Project of CAST.
2016 CIPS Youth Innovation Prize.
2016 Second Prize of Tsinghua Teaching Achievement Award (3rd/5).
2015 CCF-Intel Young Faculty Researcher Program (YFRP).
2014 Second Prize of Tsinghua Teaching Achievement Award (3rd/5).
2013 Excellent Post-doctoral Fellow Award, Tsinghua University.
2012 Excellent Counsellor Award of “Lin Feng”, Tsinghua University.
2012 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation awarded by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.
2012 First Prize of Tsinghua Teaching Achievement Award (3rd/5).
2011 Second class award for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Tsinghua University.
2011 Advanced individual in Tsinghua University 100th Anniversary.
2010 Google China intern scholarship, Google.
2010 First class scholarship (Sohu Scholarship), Tsinghua University.
2009 First class scholarship (Tung OOCL Scholarship), Tsinghua University.
2008 Excellent Counsellor Award of “December 9th Movement”, Tsinghua University.
2008 First class scholarship (Tung OOCL Scholarship), Tsinghua University.
2006 Excellent Graduate, Tsinghua University.

Academic Services

Senior Action Editor: ACL ARR (2022-).
Action Editor: TACL (2021-), ACL ARR (2021-2022).
Editorial Board: Computational Linguistics (2021-), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2021-), Frontiers of Computer Science (2013-), Machine Intlligence Research (2021-), Neurocomputing (2019-2022).
PC Chair: CIKM 2020 Short Paper Track.
Area Chair: ACL 2021 2018 2017, EMNLP 2021 2020 2019, WWW 2021, IJCAI 2021, COLING 2020 2018, AACL 2020, IJCNLP 2017, NLPCC 2020.
Senior PC: IJCAI 2022.
Others: IJCAI 2021 (Reproducibility), ACL 2020 (Publicity), CIKM 2019 (Publicity).