Autore: Yankai Lin

Zhiyuan Liu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, China. His research interests include pretrained language models, knowledge graphs and social computation, and he has published more than 120 papers at leading conferences and in respected journals with over 28000 Google Scholar citations. He has received several awards/honors, including Excellent Doctoral Dissertation awards from Tsinghua University and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and was named as one of  MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 China (MIT TR-35 China). He has served as area chair for various conferences, including ACL, EMNLP, COLING. Yankai Lin is an Assistant Professor at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. His research interests include pretrained language models and  knowledge-guided natural language processing. He has published more than 50 papers at leading conferences, including ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI and Neur IPS with over 8000 Google Scholar citations. He was named an Academic Rising Star of Tsinghua University and a Baidu Scholar. He has served as area chair for EMNLP and ACL ARR. Maosong Sun is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology and the executive vice-dean of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University. His research interests include natural language processing, artificial intelligence, computational humanities and social sciences. He was a project chief scientist of the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973 Program) of China. He has published over 200 papers at leading academic conferences and in respected journals, with over 30, 000 Google Scholar citations. He is the director of Tsinghua University-National University of Singapore Joint Research Center on Next Generation Search Technologies, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Information Processing. He received the National Outstanding Practitioner Award from the State Commission for Language Affairs, People’s Republic of China in 2007, and the National Excellent Scientific and Technological Practitioner Award from the China Association for Science and Technology in 2016. He became the Member of the Academia Europaea in 2020, and the Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2022.