Zhongqing Wang, Soochow University

Piji Li, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Wayne Xin Zhao is currently a professor at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. He received the PhD degree from Peking University, in 2014. His research interests are recommender systems and natural language processing, and he has published more than 100 referred papers in international conferences and journals. His ECIR'11 paper "Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media Using Topic Models" has won "Test-of-time Award" at ECIR'21.

Deng Cai recieved his PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include semantic parsing, machine translation, dialogue systems, and text generation. In particular, his research is concerned with improving the interpretability and generalization of deep learning models with symbolic semantics and reasoning, and external and explicit memory.He has published research papers at prestigious NLP/AI conferences and journals, such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and AAAI. His work won an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL (2021).

Ning Ding is a Ph.D student at Tsinghua Univeristy, studying natural language processing and machine learning. His research has been published at ICLR, ACL and EMNLP, etc. He is a recipient of ACL Best Demo Paper Award, Baidu Ph.D Fellowship and China National Scholarship.