Zhuang's Resume
Education
- Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 2013
- Master of Computing (Advenced) in Artificial Intelligence , the Australian National University, 2015
- Doctor of Philosophy in Natural Language Processing, Monash University, 2022 (expected)
Academic Experience
- 03/2015 – 06/2016: Visiting Student
- National ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA), Canberra, Australia
- Supervisor: Dr. Lizhen Qu
- Duties included:
- Conduct master’s thesis research.
- Work on improving the performance of relation extraction systems using both supervised and unsupervised representation learning approaches.
- Participant in the implementation of NICTA’s private deep learning toolkit, DL-IE. DL-IE includes common deep learning algorithms for various natural language processing tasks.
- Get one article about unsupervised relation extraction published in the Workshop of The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).
Professional Experience
- 06/2017 – 12/2018: Software Development Engineer
- Microsoft Search Technology Center Asia (STCA), Suzhou, China
- Supervisors: Dr. Yang Yang, Dr. Daxin Jiang
- Duties included:
- Participant in the design and implementation of a semantic parsing-based factoid question answering system.
- Participant in the design and implementation of a probabilistic taxonomy for text understanding.
- Maintain the language understanding components, including the domain and intent classification models and the slot tagging models, in the dialogue system, Cortana.
- Extract features for relevance ranking of the search engine, Bing.
- Participant in the design and implementation of the new Cortana chat-bot framework.
- 09/2016 – 06/2017: Engineer
- Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), Hong Kong, China
- Duties included:
- Develop machine learning approaches for the time series prediction.
- Design and implement machine learning algorithms for the automatic generation of trading strategies and portfolio management.
Teaching
Services
- Reviewer for [The journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ)]
Awards
- IEEE Xtreme Programming Competition 8.0 Team Rank: Australia – 2 , World – Top 100, 10/2014
- Faculty of Information Technology Research Scholarship
- Faculty of Information Technology International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Languages
Mandarin (Native Speaker), English
Publications
Unsupervised Pre-training With Seq2Seq Reconstruction Loss for Deep Relation Extraction Models
Li, Z., Qu, L., Xu, Q., & Johnson, M. Unsupervised Pre-training with Sequence Reconstruction Loss for Deep Relation Extraction Models. Workshop of The Australasian Language Technology Association.
Context Dependent Semantic Parsing: A Survey
Li, Z., Qu, L., & Haffari, G. (December 8th, 2020). Context Dependent Semantic Parsing: A Survey. The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Few-Shot Semantic Parsing for New Predicates
Li, Z., Qu, L., Huang, S., & Haffari, G. Few-shot Learning for Semantic Parsing. 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Talks
Introduction to Transfer Learning
Talk at ASTRI, Hong Kong, China
Context Dependent Semantic Parsing: A Survey
Conference proceedings talk at COLING, Virtual
Semantic Parsing for Dialogue
University Milestone talk at Monash University, Melbourne