Jing Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jingjing Wang, Soochow University
Time | Speaker | Talk |
13:00-13:20 | Bin Liang | How to Formulate Research Plans at Different Stages? |
13:20 -13:40 | Xiaobo Liang | Should Research 'Go with the Flow' or 'Swim Against the Current'? |
13:40--14:00 | Libo Qin | How to Start Your Research |
14:00--14:20 | Zhongyu Wei | Choosing Research Directions in the Era of Large Language Models |
14:20-14:30 | Open Discussions | 14:30-15:00 | Paper Presentation |
Bin Liang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. His research interests lie in natural language processing, affective computing, and multimodal learning. He has published more than 30 papers in conferences and journals such as ACL, EMNLP, WWW, SIGIR, TOIS, TAC, etc. His work has received the best paper award at CCL 2022.
Xiaobo liang is a Ph.D. at Soochow University, mentored by Associate Professor Juntao Li and Professor Min Zhang. He specializes in natural language generation, particularly emphasizing efficient training and inference techniques. His research has been featured in prestigious conferences such as NeurIPS, ACL, and EMNLP, etc.
Libo Qin is currently a professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University. He received the PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests are dialogue system and natural language processing. He has published research papers at international NLP/AI conferences and journals, such as ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and TASLP. His work has been selected as the Most Influential Paper by Paper Digest and won the Best Paper Award at the EMNLP2022 MMNLU Workshop.
Prof. Wei Zhongyu is an Associate Professor at the School of Big Data, Fudan University. He is also a dual-appointment researcher at the Laboratory of Intelligent Complex Systems, a PhD supervisor, and the director of the Data Intelligence and Social Computing Laboratory (Fudan DISC) at Fudan University. He is a member of the Fudan Natural Language Processing (Fudan NLP) team and holds a PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Affective Computing Special Committee of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Executive Committee Member and Secretary of the Social Media Processing Special Committee, and Deputy Director of the Youth Working Committee. He has served as a senior area chair and organizing committee member for several premier international conferences, including EMNLP and ACL. His research areas include natural language processing, social computing, and multimodal intelligent interaction technology. He has published over 80 papers in top-tier national and international conferences and journals in related fields. He has received awards such as the 2019 New Star in Social Media Processing Award from the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the 2020 Huawei Technology Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2021 Shanghai Rising Star Program, the 2022 Outstanding Young Scholar Award in Natural Language Processing from the China Computer Federation, and the 2022 Shanghai Young Teachers' Teaching Competition Excellence Award.