Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019-2024 (expected)
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2017-2019
• B.S. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2013-2017

Work experience

• Summer 2023: Research Intern
  • Apple Siri Information Intelligence
• Summer 2021: Applied Scientist Intern
  • Amazon Alexa AI
  • Knowledge-Grounded Dialog for Story Understanding
• Summer 2019: Research Intern
  • Bing/Microsoft Research
  • Passage Ranking with Language Models

Research Skills

• Natural language processing
  • Information extraction
  • Models for low-resource settings, transfer learning
  • Vision-language models, language model grounding
  • Dialog systems
• Graph representation learning
  • Text-rich networks (including knowledge graphs)
  • Graph-based reasoning

Service

• Reviewer at ACL, EMNLP, ACL Rolling Review, EACL, AAAI.

Teaching

Leading Teaching Assistant for CS412 Introduction to Data Mining, Spring 2018-2020