Published over 200 research papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, including ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and IJCAI;
Received the AAAI 2013 Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention Award;
Work has been cited over 14,000 times (Google Scholar), with an H-index of 56;
Authored four textbooks and translated two books;
Lead developer of the Language Technology Platform (LTP), which has been adopted by over 600 organizations and licensed for commercial use by Baidu, Tencent, Huawei, and other companies;
Led multiple key research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence” 2030 Program;
Won several awards, including the Heilongjiang Youth Science and Technology Award (2020), Google Focused Research Award (2015, 2016), and First Prize of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Progress Award (2016, Second Contributor);
Named among the “Top 2% of the World’s Leading Scientists” in the 2024 Stanford University & Elsevier global ranking.
Research Experience
Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (December 2017 - Present);
Doctoral Advisor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (April 2014 - Present);
Visiting Associate Professor, Natural Language Processing Group, Stanford University (January 2012 - January 2013);
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (December 2011 - December 2017);
Visitor, Baidu (April 2010 - June 2010);
Intern, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore (January 2007 - June 2007);
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (July 2006 onwards).
Education
Ph.D. Degree: December 2008, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology;
Bachelor's Degree: July 2002, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology.
Background
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence. Currently a Professor at the Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, and serves as the Vice Dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the Deputy Director of the Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval. A visiting scholar at Stanford University. A Young Scholar of the National-Level Youth Talent Program and a Young Scholar under the “Longjiang Scholars” program in Heilongjiang Province.
Miscellany
His MOOC course Advanced Language Programming (Python) was recognized as a National-Level Quality Online Open Course in 2017.