Chengyu WANG (汪诚愚)
Algorithm Expert, Alibaba Group
Email: chywang2013@gmail.com, chengyu.wcy@alibaba-inc.com
Biography
Chengyu Wang is an algorithm expert at Alibaba Group. He has obtained his Ph.D degree from East China Normal University (ECNU), supervised by Prof. Xiaofeng He and Prof. Aoying Zhou. Currently, he works on deep learning algorithms on various topics for Platform for AI (PAI) of Alibaba Cloud (including natural language processing, multi-modality learning, transfer learning, few-shot learning and large language models), and builds NLP toolkits named EasyTransfer (open-sourced in Tensorflow) and EasyNLP (open-sourced in PyTorch) for Alibaba Cloud. He has published 60+ papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, such as ACL, KDD, WWW, SIGIR, AAAI, ECAI, TKDE, WSDM, CIKM, SDM, EMNLP, etc.
The Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Chengyu Wang can be found HERE (possibly out of date).
- Work Experience
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Algorithm ExpertJuly 2020-Current
Platform for AI (PAI) of Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group
- Education
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Ph.D., East China Normal University Sept 2015-June 2020
School of Software Engineering
Major: Software Engineering (Data Science and Engineering) (Overall GPA: 90.29/100 Major GPA: 90.44/100)
Supervisors: Prof. Xiaofeng He and Prof. Aoying Zhou
Thesis: Algorithmic Studies on Relation Extraction from Chinese Short Texts
Won National Scholarship for PhD Students three times (2016, 2017, 2019), ECNU President Scholarship (2019) and Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (2020)
B.Eng., East China Normal University Sept 2011-June 2015
School of Software Engineering
Major: Software Engineering (Overall GPA: 3.77/4.0 Major GPA: 3.84/4.0)
Won National Scholarship three times (2012, 2013, 2014) and Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (2015)
- Publications and Patents
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Publications: Refer to [Selected Paper List]. See also [Google Scholar], [DBLP] and [Full Paper List].
Patents: More than 20 patents are filed. Several are granted. Refer to [Patents].
- Academic Activities
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Program Committee (PC) Member
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
- International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
- IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
- International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
- ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM)
- The Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
- ACL Rolling Review (for *ACL conferences)
Area Chair
- ACL Rolling Review (for *ACL conferences)
Invited Reviewer for Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP)
- ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
- ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)
- Information Processing and Management (IPM)
- Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA)
- Natural Language Engineering (NLE)
- Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS)
- Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)
- Computers & Graphics
- Information Sciences
- Neural Networks
- Expert Systems
- Neurocomputing
Selected Awards
- Outstanding Research Intern Mentor of Alibaba Cloud, 2024
- CIKM 2013 Best Demo Award, 2023
- Second Prize of CCF Science and Technology Achievement Award, 2022
- Innovation Pioneer of Alibaba Group, 2022
- First Place in NLPCC 2021 Shared Task 2: FewCLUE, 2021
- President Scholarship of East China Normal University (top-10 graduate students), 2019
- ACL 2019 Student Volunteer Program, 2019
- AAAI 2019 Student Volunteer and Scholarship Program, 2019
- ECNU Student Science and Technology Excellence Scholarship, 2018
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (Nominee), 2018
- COLING 2016 Student Support Program, 2016
- WISE 2016 Best Paper Nominee, 2016
- SIGIR Student Travel Grant (CIKM 2016), 2016
- Google Student Travel Grant (WWW 2016), 2016
- ECNU Graduate Freshman Scholarship, 2015
- Second Prize in First National Big Data Technology Innovation Contest, 2013
- WISE 2013 Challenge Runner-up Award, 2013
- National Scholarship for PhD Students (three times), 2016, 2017 and 2019
- Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (twice), 2015 and 2020
- National Scholarship (three times), 2012, 2013 and 2014
Chengyu Wang is an algorithm expert at Alibaba Group. He has obtained his Ph.D degree from East China Normal University (ECNU), supervised by Prof. Xiaofeng He and Prof. Aoying Zhou. Currently, he works on deep learning algorithms on various topics for Platform for AI (PAI) of Alibaba Cloud (including natural language processing, multi-modality learning, transfer learning, few-shot learning and large language models), and builds NLP toolkits named EasyTransfer (open-sourced in Tensorflow) and EasyNLP (open-sourced in PyTorch) for Alibaba Cloud. He has published 60+ papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, such as ACL, KDD, WWW, SIGIR, AAAI, ECAI, TKDE, WSDM, CIKM, SDM, EMNLP, etc.
The Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Chengyu Wang can be found HERE (possibly out of date).
Algorithm ExpertJuly 2020-Current
Platform for AI (PAI) of Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group
Ph.D., East China Normal University Sept 2015-June 2020
School of Software Engineering
Major: Software Engineering (Data Science and Engineering) (Overall GPA: 90.29/100 Major GPA: 90.44/100)
Supervisors: Prof. Xiaofeng He and Prof. Aoying Zhou
Thesis: Algorithmic Studies on Relation Extraction from Chinese Short Texts
Won National Scholarship for PhD Students three times (2016, 2017, 2019), ECNU President Scholarship (2019) and Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (2020)
B.Eng., East China Normal University Sept 2011-June 2015
School of Software Engineering
Major: Software Engineering (Overall GPA: 3.77/4.0 Major GPA: 3.84/4.0)
Won National Scholarship three times (2012, 2013, 2014) and Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (2015)
Publications: Refer to [Selected Paper List]. See also [Google Scholar], [DBLP] and [Full Paper List].
Patents: More than 20 patents are filed. Several are granted. Refer to [Patents].
Program Committee (PC) Member
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
- International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
- IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
- International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
- ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM)
- The Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
- ACL Rolling Review (for *ACL conferences)
Area Chair
- ACL Rolling Review (for *ACL conferences)
Invited Reviewer for Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP)
- ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
- ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)
- Information Processing and Management (IPM)
- Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA)
- Natural Language Engineering (NLE)
- Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS)
- Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)
- Computers & Graphics
- Information Sciences
- Neural Networks
- Expert Systems
- Neurocomputing
- Outstanding Research Intern Mentor of Alibaba Cloud, 2024
- CIKM 2013 Best Demo Award, 2023
- Second Prize of CCF Science and Technology Achievement Award, 2022
- Innovation Pioneer of Alibaba Group, 2022
- First Place in NLPCC 2021 Shared Task 2: FewCLUE, 2021
- President Scholarship of East China Normal University (top-10 graduate students), 2019
- ACL 2019 Student Volunteer Program, 2019
- AAAI 2019 Student Volunteer and Scholarship Program, 2019
- ECNU Student Science and Technology Excellence Scholarship, 2018
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (Nominee), 2018
- COLING 2016 Student Support Program, 2016
- WISE 2016 Best Paper Nominee, 2016
- SIGIR Student Travel Grant (CIKM 2016), 2016
- Google Student Travel Grant (WWW 2016), 2016
- ECNU Graduate Freshman Scholarship, 2015
- Second Prize in First National Big Data Technology Innovation Contest, 2013
- WISE 2013 Challenge Runner-up Award, 2013
- National Scholarship for PhD Students (three times), 2016, 2017 and 2019
- Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (twice), 2015 and 2020
- National Scholarship (three times), 2012, 2013 and 2014
Last updated: January 2024