Biography

Chengyu Wang is a senior 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 for Platform for AI (PAI) of Alibaba Cloud on natural language processing, multi-modality learning, few-shot learning and large language models, and builds NLP toolkits named EasyTransfer, EasyNLP and EasyDistill for Alibaba Cloud. He has published 100+ papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, CVPR, WWW, SIGIR, TKDE, etc.

Experience

Work Experience
  • Senior Algorithm Expert, Platform for AI (PAI), Alibaba Cloud (July 2020-Current)
Education
  • Ph.D., East China Normal University (Sept 2015-June 2020)
    Supervisors: Prof. Xiaofeng He and Prof. Aoying Zhou
    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)
    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)

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