Zhuang's Resume

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (2019–2023)
- Thesis: Semantic Parsing in Limited Resource Conditions
- Supervisors: Dr. Lizhen Qu, Prof. Gholamreza Haffari, Prof. Philip Cohen
M.Comp. (Advanced) in Artificial Intelligence
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (2014–2015)
- Thesis: Representation Learning for Weakly Supervised Relation Extraction
- Supervisor: Dr. Lizhen Qu
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (2009–2013)

Lecturer/Assistant Professor
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia
(12/2024 – Present)
- Teaching and research in natural language processing.
Research Fellow (Part-time)
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
(02/2023 – 11/2024)
- Conducted research on cross-lingual, cross-cultural social norms in natural language processing.
Software Developer (Part-time)
Openstream.ai, Melbourne, Australia
(02/2023 – 11/2024)
- Developed semantic parsing components for planning-based dialogue systems.
Remote Research Intern
Adobe Research, San Jose, USA
(09/2021 – 11/2021)
- Worked on multimodal scene graph parsing.
Remote Research Intern
Openstream.ai, Seattle, USA
(06/2021 – 09/2021)
- Focused on automatic data curation for semantic parsing and multi-task semantic parsing.
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft STCA, Suzhou, China
(06/2017 – 12/2018)
- Maintained the language understanding components for Cortana and Bing search engine.
Engineer (Cloud Computing)
Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), Hong Kong
(09/2016 – 06/2017)
- Implemented machine learning algorithms for time series prediction, trading strategies, and portfolio management.
Visiting Student
National ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA), Canberra, Australia
(03/2015 – 06/2016)
- Worked on unsupervised learning and neural relation extraction models.