Yong Jiang
Alibaba DAMO Academy
Biography
Hi! I currently work at Alibaba DAMO Academy. I received my Ph.D from the joint program of ShanghaiTech University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kewei Tu. I am interested in machine learning and natural language processing.
My current research mainly focuses on multilingual NLP, structured prediction and so on. In my PhD time, I mainly worked on learning latent variable models for NLP problems and ML problems.
Spotlight of our recent work:
- Knowledge distillation for learning multilingual models: structure-level KD, structural KD.
- Improving sequence labeling methods: designing better potential functions, speeding up CRF training & inference.
- Better cross-lingual methods: risk minimization, multi-view learning
- Incorporating various kinds of knowledge to improve NER, sequence labeling and structured prediction: embedding combination, ACE, retrieval guided learning.
- Unsupervised grammar induction: 2nd order parsing, EACL tutorial.
We have some research intern positions available in Alibaba DAMO Academy. If you are interested in NLP and ML, please feel free to contact me: jiangyong.ml@@gmail.com.
Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
Education
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PhD in Computer Science, 2019
ShanghaiTech University
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PhD in Computer Science, 2019
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences