Scholar
Xiaoyu Shen
Google Scholar ID: BWfPrE4AAAAJ
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,074
H-index
27
i10-index
57
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Special Theme Paper Award at ACL 2023 (on weak supervision)
- Paper on cross-lingual product QA accepted to ACL 2023 Industry Track; released xPQA dataset
- Published a survey on training neural ranking models with limited annotations
- Best Demo Paper Award at COLING 2020
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2020)
- Google NLP Summit Grant (2019)
- International Max Planck Research School Fellowship (2017)
- Interspeech Travel Grant (2017)
- Outstanding Graduate / Outstanding Bachelor Thesis, Nanjing University (2015)
- National Scholarship and Outstanding Student, Nanjing University (2013)
Background
- Enthusiastic AI researcher and language lover
- Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI, leading the contextual question-answering project for shopping
- Built the full training pipeline from scratch, including pre-training, data collection/annotation, and active/continuous learning
- The shopping QA system is deployed across Amazon apps, webpages, and Alexa devices, serving hundreds of millions of users
- Research interests: interpretability and explainability, cross-lingual generalization, domain specialization
- Aims to advance LLMs toward becoming truly usable and reliable intelligent agents
- Believes AI should be a tool for social good rather than personal gain
Miscellany
- Guided by the Confucian-inspired mission: 'Establish conscience for Heaven and Earth, secure life for the people, continue the lost teachings of sages, and build peace for future generations'
- Volunteered with Rise Foundation distributing food to the homeless
- Tutored refugees at Redi-School
- Organized anti-separation activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Advocates for interdisciplinary AI research that promotes social equity and positive impact
