Chen Zhang
Scholar

Chen Zhang

Google Scholar ID: XOj25XAAAAAJ
Huawei International | NUS
NLP EvaluationAgentic RAGLLM Alignment
Citations & Impact
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Citations
678
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
19
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
11
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 1. Selected Papers:
  • - Aligning Language Models Using Follow-up Likelihood as Reward Signal, AAAI 2025
  • - TS-Align: A Teacher-Student Collaborative Framework for Scalable Iterative Finetuning of Large Language Models, Findings of EMNLP 2024
  • - CrossTune: Black-Box Few-Shot Classification with Label Enhancement, LREC-COLING 2024
  • - A Comprehensive Analysis of the Effectiveness of Large Language Models as Automatic Dialogue Evaluators, AAAI 2024
  • - xDial-Eval: A Multilingual Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation Benchmark, Findings of EMNLP 2023
  • - Self-Supervised Modeling for Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation, Ph.D. Thesis
  • - PoE: A Panel of Experts for Generalized Automatic Dialogue Assessment, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
  • - FineD-Eval: Fine-grained Automatic Dialogue-Level Evaluation, EMNLP 2022
  • - MDD-Eval: Self-Training on Augmented Data for Multi-Domain Dialogue Evaluation, AAAI 2022
  • - Automatic Evaluation and Moderation of Open-domain Dialogue Systems, DSTC10 Track 5
  • - Investigating the Impact of Pre-trained Language Models on Dialog Evaluation, EMNLP 2021
  • 2. Other Achievements:
  • - November 2024: Join the Search & Recommendation Team in Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Singapore
  • - December 2023: Serve as an Area Chair of ACL ARR
  • - September 2023: Join ECE, National University of Singapore as a research fellow
  • - June 2023: Receive PhD from National University of Singapore
  • - March 2023: Be part of the organizing committee of EMNLP-2023
  • - March 2023: Submit thesis titled 'Self-Supervised Modeling for Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation'
  • - April 2022: Serve as the workshop chair for DSTC11
  • - April 2021: Be the main organizer of DSTC10 Track 5, 'Automatic Evaluation and Moderation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems'
Research Experience
  • 1. AI Researcher, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Search & Recommendation Team, Nov 2024 - Present
  • 2. Research Fellow, ECE Department, National University of Singapore, Sep 2023 - Oct 2024, Supervisors: Prof. Haizhou Li and Prof. Xinchao Wang
  • 3. NUS-Robert Bosch (SEA) IPP Student, 2019 - 2022, Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Friedrichs
Education
  • 1. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from National University of Singapore, Singapore (Jan 2019 to Jun 2023), EDB NUS-Bosch IPP Scholarship
  • 2. Double Degree in Business & Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Aug 2012 - Jun 2016), Science & Technology Undergraduate Scholarship
  • 3. GCE A Level, Victoria Junior College, Singapore (Jan 2010 - Dec 2011), Singapore MOE SM1 Scholarship
  • 4. GCE O Level, Victoria School, Singapore (Jan 2008 - Dec 2009), Singapore MOE SM1 Scholarship
Background
  • Research interests include LLM Alignment, LLM Evaluation, and Dialogue Systems. Currently, an AI Researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, working with Dr. Liu Yong.