Biography

Dr. Wanxiang Che is a professor of School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology. He is the vice director of Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval. He is a young scholar of “Heilongjiang Scholar” and a visiting scholar of Stanford University. He is currently the vice director and secretary-general of the Computational Linguistics Professional Committee of the Chinese Information Society of China; Officer and Secretary of AACL Executive Board; a senior member of the China Computer Federation (CCF). He achieved for the AAAI 2013 Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention Award. His Language Technology Platform (LTP) has been shared by over 600 organizations, and authorized to Baidu, Tencent, and so on. He won the first place in CoNLL 2018 and 2019 shared tasks. In 2020, he won the Heilongjiang Youth Science and Technology Award; in 2015 and 2016, he won the Google Focused Research Award; in 2016, he won the first prize of the Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology Progress Award (2nd Place); in 2012, he won the second prize of the Heilongjiang Province Technology Invention Award (2nd Place); in 2010, he won the first prize of the “Qian Weichang” Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Information Society of China (2nd Place), the Hanwang Youth Innovation Award (individual). In 2017, the MOOC course “Advanced Language Programming (Python)” taught by him won the National Excellent Online Open Course.

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • Ph.D Degree, School of Computer Science and Technology, 2008.12

    Harbin Institute of Technology

  • Bachelor Degree, School of Computer Science and Technology, 2002.07

    Harbin Institute of Technology

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Dec 2017 – Present Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral Advisor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Apr 2014 – Present Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Associate Professor

Natural Language Processing Group, Stanford University

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Palo Alto
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Dec 2011 – Dec 2017 Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Visitor

Baidu

Apr 2010 – Jun 2010 Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore

Jan 2007 – Jun 2007 Singapore
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Jul 2006 – Dec 2011 Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Jul 2004 – Jul 2006 Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

IBM China Research Lab (CRL)

Mar 2004 – Jun 2004 Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)

Apr 2002 – Jul 2002 Beijing

Awards

Heilongjiang Youth Science and Technology Award

Heilongjiang Scholars Program:Young Scholar

The Second Prize of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Progress Award (Fifth Place)

The First Prize of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Place)

Google Focused Research Award

Google Focused Research Award

A Special Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

The Second Prize of Heilongjiang Province Technology Invention Award (Second Place)

The First Prize of HanWang Young Innovation Award

The First Prize of WeiChang Qian Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award (Second Place)

The Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship

Selected Professional Services

Organizations

  • Computational Linguistics Professional Committee of the Chinese Information Society of China: The Vice Director and Secretary-general
  • Officer and Secretary of AACL Executive Board
  • Senior Member of China Computer Federation (CCF)

Conferences

  • ACL: Sponsor Chair (2017, 2018), Area Chair (2016), Publication Chair (2015), Faculty Advisor of Student Research Workshop (2015, 2018), Reviewer
  • EMNLP: Publication Chair (2011)
  • SemEval: Organizers of Semantic Evaluation Exercises (2012, 2016)

Journals

  • Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS): Associate Editor
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (TASLP): Reviewer
  • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP): Reviewer
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR): Reviewer

Projects

Theories and Methods of Natural Language Processing with Fewer Labels (62236004)

Open Domain Multiple Knowledge Acquisition and Deep Structured Semantic Analysis (2020AAA0106501)

Research on Cross-lingual Semantic Dependency Parsing (61976072)

Theory and Method of Internet Chinese Information Processing Oriented to Ternary Space (2014CB340503)

Research on Sub-Strucutre Reliability Computing of Dependency Syntactic Parsing (61370164)

Chinese Dependency Parsing (60803093)

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