I am a research scientist working at ByteDance AI Lab. I am developing scalable algorithms to learn and mine knowledge from data, with applications in NLP, machine translation, and time series analysis.
News
1 paper
accepted at NeurIPS 2019, about contextualized embedding for text generation and how we use kernels to model embedding variance. see you in Vancouver.
1 paper
accepted at INLG 2019. It is about the style transfer for text
generation .
1 paper
accepted at EMNLP 2019, about linear time neural
machine translation.
2 papers
accepted at ICCV 2019. One is to be presented as an Oral talk.
Dr. Hao Zhou
and I are going to give a tutorial on deep generative models for
text generation at NLPCC-ADL 2019 at Dunhuang, China.
Media Coverage
Coverage about Xiaomingbot:
- Disrupted
Journalism, DisruptionHub. July 20, 2017. (mentioning our
in-house developed Xiaomingbot)
- Robot gives competitive edge to tech application, China Daily,
September 4, 2016. (similar coverage by 83 reports in Chinese.
about our news writing robot: Xiaomingbot)
- Prolific Robot Journalist Covers 450 Olympic Stories. Newsweek. August 26, 2016. (coverage of our in-house developed writing robot Xiaomingbot)
- The Future of Writing? China's AI Reporter Published 450 Articles During Rio Olympics, Futurism, August 26, 2016.
- Robot Reporter Covered The Olympics For A Chinese News Outlet, Popular Science, August 25, 2016.
- China Sends AI Reporter to Cover the Rio Olympics -- Blows Every Journalist Out of the Water, Nextshark, August 25, 2016.
- A Chinese news outlet used an incredibly efficient “robot reporter” to cover the Olympics. Quartz. August 24, 2016.
- China's A.I. Olympics Reporter Could Replace Journalists, Inverse, August 24, 2016.
- Breaking down China's most popular news app, Toutiao, AbacUSNews, Oct. 2, 2018. (mentioning Xiaomingbot)
- The
Insanely Popular Chinese News App That You've Never Heard Of,
MIT Technology Review, January 26, 2017. (mentioning Xiaomingbot)