Multiple papers accepted by top international conferences such as NeurIPS, SIGMOD, RecSys, ICML, ACL, SIGIR, ICLR; released several significant projects like ‘Lingshu’ multi-modal medical foundation model, babel multilingual language model, etc.; will serve as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025 and KDD 2025.
Research Experience
Served as a principal researcher at Tencent AI Lab for seven years before joining DAMO Academy; briefly served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Education
Received Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016, supervised by Professor Hong CHENG; obtained B.S. degree with honors from Sun Yat-sen University.
Background
Currently the head of Language And Science AI Lab (LASA) of DAMO Academy of Alibaba Group. Interested in developing novel and efficient models with various complex data structures, including graphs and sequences, particularly in the realm of Language and Science.