Resume

[Curriculum Vitae] [中文简历]

Research Interests

• Natural language processing, signal processing, high-dimensional statistics, and machine learning

Education

• 2013 - 2017: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
• 2011 - 2013: University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA. M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
• 2007 - 2011: Xidian University, China. B.S. in Electronic and Information Engineering (GPA ranking: 1/114).

Work Experience

• 2020 - present: Baidu Inc., Staff Research Engineer.
• 2018 - 2020: Petuum, Inc., Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer.
• 2010 - 2011: Microsoft Research Asia, Research Intern.

Research Experience

• 2013 - 2017: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Research Assistant.
• 2012 - 2013: University of Pennsylvania, Research Assistant.

Awards

• North America Finalist of IBM Watson Build Challenge, 2017.
• Paper selected as the runner-up for Best Paper in Electric Energy Systems Track in Proc. of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2015.
• Founders Award of Excellence (top 1%), 2015.
• Paper selected as one of the Best Conference Papers on Power System Analysis and Modeling of IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2014.
• Excellent Graduate of Xidian University (top 1%), 2011.
• National Scholarship (top 0.2% nationwide), 2010.
• First prize of the College Academic and Technological Scholarship (top 2%), 2008, 2009, 2010.
• Excellent Student Award (top 1%), 2008.

Research Interns / Students Mentored

• Jicheng Li, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021.
• Xuanfu Wu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021 & 2022.

Professional Activities & Service

• Program Committee Member:
  • Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
  • The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  • The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Industry Track
  • The Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING)
  • The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
  • SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
  • The China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL)
• Journal Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR)
• Conference Reviewer:
  • The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • The Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ACL ARR)
  • The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  • The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  • The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
  • The Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
  • The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
  • The China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL)
  • The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)
  • American Control Conference (ACC)
  • Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems Conference (ISAP)

Skills

• Proficiency with Matlab, Python, DyNet, PyTorch, and TensorFlow
• Experienced in Java, R, C/C++, and C#