Scholar
Barry Menglong Yao
Google Scholar ID: gF_6lHcAAAAJ
PhD Student, Virginia Tech
Citations & Impact
Citations
179
H-index
5
i10-index
3
Publications
8
Co-authors
12
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. Proposed end-to-end multi-modal fact-checking and explanation generation, constructed MOCHEG dataset; 2. Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at SIGIR'23.
Research Experience
- 1. PhD student, Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Lifu Huang, Jun 2021 – Present; 2. Research assistant, University at Buffalo, under supervision of Dr. David Doermann, Jan 2022 – Aug 2022; 3. Supervised research, University at Buffalo, under supervision of Dr. Changyou Chen, Dec 2020 – Jun 2022; 4. Software Engineer, WeBank Co., Ltd., China, Aug 2016 – Jul 2020.
Education
- 1. PhD in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Lifu Huang; 2. M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, advised by Dr. Changyou Chen; 3. B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University.
Background
- Research interests include entity linking and fake news detection. Received the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention from SIGIR 2023 and the Best MS Research Award from the CSE department at the University at Buffalo.
