Winner of the Best Short Paper award at NAACL 2021. Research areas include efficient language modeling, information extraction, prompting, time-series analysis, and grounded language acquisition.
Research Experience
Worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research (mentored by Corby Rosset), Microsoft Semantic Machines (mentored by Anthony Platanios), and Microsoft Research Asia (mentored by Chin-Yew Lin). Visiting student at Johns Hopkins University in 2018, mentored by Hongyuan Mei and Jason Eisner.
Education
Obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from Peking University in 2019; Ph.D. in natural language processing from Johns Hopkins University in 2024, advised by Professor Benjamin Van Durme.
Background
Research focuses on multimodal machine learning for clinical diagnosis and precision health. Interned at Microsoft Research, Microsoft Semantic Machines, and Microsoft Research Asia. Currently working at the Health Futures team at Microsoft Research, Redmond.
Miscellany
Also known as hiaoxui, founder of WallessPKU, a platform that helps Chinese students circumvent the Great Firewall to access the internet without censorship. Has been developing and funding this non-profit project for over 8 years, benefiting tens of thousands of people.