Experience


Research Internships
  • Italian Trulli
          Researcher Intern, Google AI Research, Speech Intelligence Team, 2022.09 - 2023.01
          Mentors and Managers: Vicky Zayats, Johann Rocholl, Dan Walker, Dirk Padfield
  • Amazon Science
          Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Alexa AI, ASR Language Modeling Team, 2022.05 - 2022.08
          Mentors and Managers: Jari Kolehmainen, Yi Gu, Qi Luo, Aditya Gourav, Ivan Bulyko.
          (Sr.) Principal Scientist Advisors: Ankur Gandhe, Denis Filimonov, Ariya Rastrow, Andreas Stolcke
  • Amazon Science
          Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Alexa AI, SpeakerID Team, 2021.05 - 2021.08
          Mentors: Yuguang Yang, Guoli Sun, Ryan Langman, Eunjung (Christine) Han.
          Sr. Principal Scientist Advisors: Jasha Droppo, Andreas Stolcke
    • Selected Honors and Awards
  • Future Faculty Diversity Program, (Acceptance Rate < 20%), Virginia Tech, 2024
  • Best Paper, (HypoCompass Paper), (Top 1%, 1/76), AIED, 2024
  • Best Interactive Event Award, (HypoCompass Paper), (Top 1%, 1/76), AIED, 2024
  • Carnegie Funds for Faculty Development, University of Michigan, School of Information, 2024
  • Best Demo (ConvXAI Paper) (Top 6%, 1/16), CSCW, 2023
  • Google Research Science Conference Scholarships, (MultiturnCleanup Paper), Google Research, 2023
  • Rising Star of Data Science, UC San Diego, UChicago, Stanford University, 2023
  • Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (ScatterShot Paper) (Top 5%, 3/65), IUI, 2023
  • Graduate Student Travel Grant, IST, PennState, 2020, 2022
  • CRA-W Grad Cohort Award, Grad Cohort Workshop for Women, 2019
  • Lehigh University Fellowship, Lehigh University, 2018-2019
  • Outstanding Master Degree (Top 12.5%, 5/40), RenMin University of China, 2015
  • Liaison Officer (Top 1%, 30/3000), Delegation of Singapore Deputy Prime Minister at APEC, 2014
  • Outstanding Merit Student (Top 0.2%, 1/550), Beijing, 2013
  • Excellent Graduate (Top 0.2%, 1/550), Beijing, 2013
  • Outstanding-Dissertation Award (Top 0.5%, 3/550), USTB, 2013
  • National Endeavor Fellowship, Nationwide (Top 2%, 5/550), National, 2011 and 2012
  • Vice Chairman (Top 0.3%, 10/3000), The 6th presidium of the 22nd session of USTB student union, 2011-2012
  • Alumni Funding Scholarship (Top 0.3%, 8/3,000), USTB, 2012
    • Research Talks
  • Northeastern University, 2024.11, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
  • Cornell University, 2024.11, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
  • Columbia University, 2024.11, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
  • University of Washington, 2024.11 & 2024.10, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
  • Google, 2024.10, Towards Human-Centered Alignment in Speech Language Models
  • Virginia Tech, 2024.10, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
  • Microsoft, Responsible & Open AI Research, 2024.7, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024.7, Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment via Interaction
  • EMNLP'23, 2023.12, MultiTurnCleanup: A Benchmark for Multi-Turn Spoken Conversational Transcript Cleanup
  • University of Michigan, 2023.10 & 2023.11, Towards Human-Centered AI Alignment via Interaction
  • Rising Star of Data Science, 2023.11, Towards Useful AI Interpretability via Interactive AI Explanations [Lightning Talk Slide][Poster]
  • Carnegie Mellon University, 2023.07, Towards Useful AI Interpretability via Interactive AI Explanations
  • Princeton University, 2023.05, Towards Useful AI Interpretability via Interactive AI Explanations
  • CHI'23 In2Writing Workshop, 2023.04, Parachute: Evaluating Interactive Human-LM Co-writing Systems
  • IUI'23, 2023.03, ScatterShot: Interactive In-context Example Curation for Text Transformation
  • Google Research, 2023.01, A Benchmark for Multi-Turn Spoken Conversational Transcript Cleanup
  • University of Notre Dame, 2022.09, Useful XAI via Interactive AI Explanations
  • Amazon Science, 2022.08, Auto-Regressive Language Model Distillation
  • Amazon Science, 2021.08, Improving Fairness in Speaker Verification Models
  • CHI'21 HCXAI Workshop, 2021.05, A Review on Human-Centered Explainable NLP
    • Professional Services
  • PC Member:
  • Paper Reviewing:
    • Full-time Working Experience
  • China Minsheng Banking Corporation Limited, Head Office, "Future Banker" Management Trainee Project, 2016-2018
    - Job rotation in Beijing Head Office (2016.08-2017.01), Shanghai Branch (2017.01-2018.08).
    - Rotated departments include Financial Market Department, Transaction Banking Department, Asset Custody Department, Credit Review Department, etc.