What’s New

  • 02/2024: We presented a tutorial about AI generated content (AIGC) at AAAI 2024. Check the tutorial website here.
  • 02/2024: I accepted the invitation to serve as Area Chair for ACL 2024.
  • 01/2024: One paper on Explaining Graph Neural Networks is accepted by ICLR 2024.
  • 12/2023: I accepted the invitation to serve as Area Chair for NAACL 2024.
  • 12/2023: One paper on Humor Response Generation is accepted by AAAI 2024.
  • 10/2023: One tutorial on AI Generated Contents is accepted by AAAI 2024.
  • 10/2023: Three papers on NLP4MaterialScience, Large Language Model, and State-Space Models are accepted by EMNLP 2023 main conference and Findings.
  • 08/2023: One paper on Question Generation is accepted by TKDE.
  • 07/2023: One paper on Low-Bit Shift Network is accepted by ICCV'23.
  • 05/2023: Four papers on NLP4MaterialScience, Question Answering, Pretrained Language Model Analysis, and Conversational Search are accepted by ACL'23.
  • 05/2023: Our paper on Conversational Search in WWW'23 received Best Paper Award Nomination (one of 16 sportlight papers among 365 accepted papers and 1900 submissions).
  • 04/2023: I gave a training course “Knowledge graphs: Extracting and leveraging meaning from unstructured text” in the NLP Training Series organized by IVADO and CLIQ-ai. (Slides)
  • 03/2023: I received the Faculty of Arts and Science Medal of Excellence in Research - 2022.
  • 01/2023: One paper on Conversational Search is accepted by WWW'23.
  • 01/2023: One paper on Few-Shot Relation Classification is accepted by EACL'23.
  • 12/2022: I accepted the invitation to serve as Area Chair for ACL 2023.
  • 10/2022: I accepted the invitation to serve as Area Chair for EACL 2023.
  • 10/2022: One paper on Event Causality Identification is accepted by AAAI'23.
  • 10/2022: One paper on Language Model and Humor is accepted by WSDM'23.
  • 10/2022: Two papers on Question Evaluation and Dialogue System are accepted by EMNLP'22.
  • 10/2022: Received Mila Internal Funding - Industry Sponsored Academic Labs on Material Discovery. Merci!
  • 08/2022: Received an Intel-Mila Collaboration Grant on Material Discovery. Merci!
  • 08/2022: Received a MITACS grant from GoodLabs Studio. Merci!
  • 08/2022: Received a MITACS grant from Thales Canada. Merci!
  • 06/2022: I accepted the invitation to serve as Area Chair for EMNLP 2022.
  • 06/2022: Received a FRQNT Établissement de la relève professorale grant. Merci beaucoup Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT)!
  • 05/2022: One paper on Social Media Content Tagging is accepted by KDD'22.
  • 05/2022: One paper on Clinical NER is accepted by KSEM'22.
  • 04/2022: We organized the ICLR'22 Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing Workshop. (DLG4NLP@ICLR’22)
  • 03/2022: Two papers on Taxonomy Expansion and Reading Path Generation are accepted by ICDE'22 (Industry Track).
  • 03/2022: One paper on Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering is accepted by CVPR'22.
  • 02/2022: One paper on model measurement and question answering is accepted by ACL'22.
  • 02/2022: I accepted the invitation to serve as Program Committee member of CIKM 2022.
  • 02/2022: I gave a training course “Knowledge graphs: Extracting and leveraging meaning from unstructured text” in the NLP Training Series organized by IVADO and CLIQ-ai. (Slides)
  • 01/2022: Two papers on knowledge-based question answering and multi-modal knowledge graph are accepted by DASFAA'22.
  • 01/2022: One paper on reasoning over graphs is accepted by ICLR'22 as spotlight.
  • 01/2022: One paper on taxonomy completion is accepted by WWW'22.
  • 12/2021: One paper on code modeling is accepted by ICSE-NIER'22.
  • 12/2021: I am quite honoured to be named as a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. (CIFAR News)
  • 12/2021: One conference tutorial on GNNs for NLP is accepted at WWW'22.
  • 11/2021: I completed my duty of serving as a voluntary mentor in the Mila Mentorship Program.
  • 11/2021: My PhD student Suyuchen Wang won the Artificial Intelligence Scholarship.
  • 11/2021: My MSc student Pierre-William Breau has been awarded and accepted the Graduate and Postdoctoral Excellence Scholarships.
  • 11/2021: One paper on question answering is accepted at ICDE'22.
  • 11/2021: I accepted the invitation to serve as Program Committee member of the Applied Science Track of ACM SIGKDD 2022.
  • 11/2021: One workshop proposal "Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing (Graph4NLP)" is accepted and will take place at NAACL 2022, ICLR 2022.

Education & Career

  • APAugust 2020 - Current

    Assistant Professor

    Université de Montréal, Canada (Link to DIRO)

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute (Link to Mila)

    Institut Courtois (Link to Institut Courtois)

  • Ph.D.January 2016 - January 2020

    Doctor of Philosophy

    University of Alberta (UA), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canada

  • M.Sc.September 2013 - September 2015

    Master of Science

    University of Alberta (UA), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canada

  • B.E.August 2009 - June 2013

    Bachelor of Engineering

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, China