- I am a machine learning engineer at Wish, working on the recommendation and personalization for the Wish Clip (video shopping platform), the homepage feed, related product feed, ad product feed and other feeds. My works include research, modeling training, validation, deployment and system maintenance.
- My research interests include 1). information retrieval, recommender system, ecommerce personalization 2). NLP applications: question answering, semantic parsing, 3) data driven machine learning and transfer learning.
- I got my Master of Mathematics (Computer Science) degree (Thesis-based) at the University of Waterloo. I was fortunated to be supervised by Jimmy Lin at the Data System group and work with him for two years.
- I got my B.S. degree in computer science and technology at Zhejiang University. I also worked as a research assistant with Professor Lu Wei in the winter of 2017 (actually there is no winter in Singapore).
Latest News
- 2022-04-28: One patent filed on semantic parsing.
- 2021-10-04: I joint Wish recommendation team, training (almost) all recommendation models at Wish and deploy them in production.
- 2021-05-28: One paper is accepted by ACL workshop. Check it out on Arxiv.
- 2021-05-24: One demo paper is accepted by ACL. Check it out on Arxiv
- 2021-05-07: Our paper on transformer optimization is accepted as the ACL main conference long paper! Check it out on Arxiv
- 2020-11-19: We are No.1 in the Spider Leaderboard (Yale Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Challenge). Check out our score here!
- 2020-10-01: The source code for BERTserini is officially open-sourced here!
- 2020-06-30: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to ICTIR 2020.
- 2020-04-26: Attended two online conferences: WWW 2020 and ICLR 2020.
- 2020-01-10: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to WWW 2020.
- 2019-10-14: I have one demo paper accepted to WSDM 2020! Code has been released.
- 2019-08-13: I have four papers accepted to EMNLP 2019!
- 2019-07-28: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to ACL workshop (NLP for Conversational AI) 2019. I had a nice journey in Florence, Italy!
- 2019-07-23: Excited to know that my SIGIR paper got the Best Paper Honorable Mention award! Check it here.
- 2019-07-21: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to SIGIR 2019. I had a nice journey in Paris, France!
- 2019-06-01: As the first author, I have two papers accepted to NAACL 2019. I had an exciting travel to Minneapolis, USA from June 1st to June 7th.
- 2019-06-01: Try our open domain question answer bot demo and add it to your slack workspace. More details for this demo can be found here.
- 2019-05-21: Our new submission to the MSMARCO passage re-ranking task tied for first place with a MRR of 0.383 on the eval set! See the leaderborad.
- 2019-04-08: We are the top one in MSMARCO passage re-ranking task! See the leaderborad.
- 2019-04-05: I successfully defended my Master thesis at University of Waterloo! The title is
End-to-end Neural Information Retrieval. See the paper and the slides. - 2019-01-27: I have one paper accepted to AAAI 2019.
- 2018-05 to 2019-05: I did a internship in RSVP.ai, where I spent much time on the coreference resolution task, the customer complaint escalation task and the open domain question answering task.
