Zhiyuan Liu

刘知远

副教授

About

I am now working as associate professor of NLP Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. My major research interests are in Natural Language Processing, knowledge graph and social computing. I am always looking for highly-motivated post-docs and visiting scholars to work together on natural language processing, knowledge graphs, and social computing. Please read the instructions and email me with your CV.

Publications

You can find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.


Students

Graduates

  • Cunchao Tu (2013-2018): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Social Computation and Network Embedding. Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Thesis, Tsinghua and Beijing Outstanding Graduate. -> THU Postdoc Fellow. -> Co-Founder of Power Law Inc.
  • Ayana (2013-2019): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Document Summarization. -> Faculty at Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics.
  • Cheng Yang (2014-2019): PhD Collaborated on network embedding. Network Embedding and Its Applications. CIPS Outstanding PhD Thesis. -> Faculty at BUPT.
  • Yankai Lin (2014-2019): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Graphs. Beijing Outstanding Graduate. -> Tencent Wechat.
  • Ruobing Xie (2014-2017): Master Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Representation Learning. Tsinghua Outstanding Master Thesis, Tsinghua and Beijing Outstanding Graduate. -> Tencent Wechat.
  • Xu Han (2017-2022): PhD. Neural Knowledge Acquisition. -> Postdoc at Tsinghua.
  • Yuan Yao (2018-2023): PhD. Cross-Modal Information Extraction.
  • Haoxi Zhong (2018-2021): Master. Legal NLP. Tsinghua Outstanding Master Thesis and Outstanding Graduate. -> Tencent.
  • Jie Zhou (2018-2021): Master. Graph Neural Networks. Beijing Outstanding Graduate. -> Startup.
  • Kaitao Zhang (2018-2021): Master. Neural IR.
  • Zhengyan Zhang (2019-2024): PhD. Fast Big Models.
  • Ganqu Cui (2019-2024): Master. Safe Big Models.
  • Chaojun Xiao (2020-): PhD. Long Document Modeling.
  • Zheni Zeng (2020-): PhD. Bio NLP.
  • Yujia Qin (2020-2024): PhD. Big Models.
  • Jing Yi (2020-2023): Master. Big Models.
  • Fengyu Wang (2020-2023): Master. Text Generation.
  • Shengding Hu (2020-): Master. Delta Tuning.
  • Weize Chen (2021-): PhD. Big Model Theory.
  • Shi Yu (2021-): PhD. Neural IR.
  • Yuzhong Wang (2021-): Master. Legal NLP.
  • Chaoqun He (2021-): Master. Text Generation.

Undergraduates

  • Class 2019: Xun Sun (THU->), Wanrong He (THU->), Junwen Tan (THU->), Yining Ye (THU->), Muyan Hu (THU->), Chenning Sun (CUG->), Yutao Sun (THU->).
  • Class 2018: Yuzhuo Bai (THU->), Keyue Qiu (THU->), Yongwei Li (THU->), Bowen Dong (THU->), Yushi Bai (THU->), Yufeng Du (THU->), Jiayou Zhang (THU->), Zeyuan Zhang (THU->), Guangxuan Xiao (THU->), Tianyu Wang (BJUT->), Yuan Zang * (THU->), Weihan Jiang (Beihang->), Qianrui Zhou (THU->), Tingji Zhang (THU->), Yangyi Chen (HUST->), Xueyu Hu (Beihang->).
  • Class 2017: Weize Chen (THU->THU PhD), Yi Dai (THU->THU PhD), Hao Peng (THU->THU Master), Ziqi Wang (THU->), Rong Han (THU->THU PhD), Wangyi Jiang (THU->CAS PhD), Tianyu Yu (Beihang->THU), Zhengxian Fan (UCL->), Yuxian Gu (THU->THU * PhD), Yun Shi (THU->THU Master), Shi Yu (THU->THU PhD), Xurui Zhang (THU->), Bairu Hou (THU->), Mukai Li (Beihang->), Xuyang Jin (THU->), Chuancheng Lv (THU->THU Master), Shirong Ma (THU->THU Master), Yuzhong Wang (THU->THU Master).
  • Class 2016: Liang Chang (BUPT->ByteDance), Tianyu Gao (THU->Princeton), Shengding Hu (THU->THU Master), Junjie Huang (Beihang->UIUC Master), Haozhe Ji (THU->THU PhD), Sicong Ouyang (BUPT->BUPT Master), Yujia Qin (THU->THU PhD), * Xiaozhi Wang (THU->THU PhD), Ruidong Wu (THU->), Chaojun Xiao (THU->THU PhD), Guoyang Zeng (THU->THU), Juexiao Zhang (THU->), Zheni Zeng (THU->THU PhD), Kai Zhang (ZUCC->THU RA), Ao Zhang (NJU->THU RA), Chenyang Zhu (SUFE->THU RA), * Xuanming Zhang (UNNC->THU RA), Sichen Jin (ZJU->THU RA), Lingbo Tong (SCU->THU RA).
  • Class 2015: Xiang Li (THU->), Yihong Gu (THU->), Zhiyuan Liu (XJTU->NUS), Shangbang Long (PKU->), Yifan Qiao (THU->), Changhe Song (THU->THU Master), Jun Yan（THU->USC PhD), Chenghao Yang (Beihang->), Pengfei Yu (THU->UIUC PhD), * Zhijingcheng Yu (THU->NUS PhD), Yuhui Zhang (THU->Stanford Master), Zhengyan Zhang (THU->THU PhD), Hao Zhu (THU->CMU PhD), Ganqu Cui (THU->THU Master).
  • Class 2014: Deming Ye (THU->THU PhD), Yuan Yao (THU->THU PhD), Jiaju Du (THU->THU Master), Yilin Niu (THU->THU PhD), Haoxi Zhong (THU->THU Master), Luming Tang (THU->Cornell PhD), Ji Xin (THU->U Waterloo PhD), Xingchi Yuan * (THU->Google), Ziyun Wang (THU->NYU Master), Zikun Hu (THU->NUS PhD).
  • Class 2013: Lei Xu (THU->MIT PhD), Xu Han (THU->THU PhD), Zhipeng Guo (THU->THU Master), Hao Wang (THU->NTU PhD), Wenyuan Zeng (THU->U Toronto PhD), Jiawei Wu (THU->UCSB PhD).
  • Class 2012: Honyin Luo (THU->MIT PhD), Zichuan Lin (THU->THU Master), Weicheng Zhang (BUPT->JHU Master), Deyang Yin (BUPT->Columbia Master).
  • Class 2011: Yang Liu (THU->UIUC PhD), Tianze Shi (THU->Cornell PhD), Ying Lin (BUPT->RPI PhD), Haitian Gong (BUPT->CMU Master).
  • Class 2010: Yan Wang (THU->CMU Master), Yankai Lin (THU->THU PhD).
  • Class 2009: Han Zhao (THU->Waterloo Master), Chen Liang (THU->PSU PhD), Han Li (THU->WISC PhD), Cunchao Tu (THU->THU PhD), Xiaowen Chu (BUPT->CMU Master).
  • Class 2008: Sicong Zhang(THU->Georgetown PhD), Weipeng He (THU->Hamburg Master).
  • Class 2007: Wenyi Huang (THU->PSU PhD), Xinxiong Chen (THU->THU PhD->Startups).
  • Class 2006: Xiaxiao Li (BUPT->Alberta Master), Chuan Shi (THU EE->UMN PhD).
  • Class 2005: Peng Li (THU->THU PhD->Baidu IDL).


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, * withNing 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).