Xu SUN  (孙栩) Tenured Associate Professor, PhD Supervisor Language Computing and Machine Learning Group, Department of Computer Science, Peking University Email：xusun (AT) pku.edu.cn Brief Bio: Xu Sun is Tenured Associate Professor and PhD supervisor in Department of Computer Science, Peking University. He got Ph.D from The University of Tokyo (2010). From 2010 to 2012, he worked at The University of Tokyo, Cornell University, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as research fellows. He has been a research intern at MSR-Redmond in 2009. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning, especially on structured learning for language, and natural language generation. He has been Area Chair and Senior PC (SPC) of EMNLP, IJCAI, and IJCNLP. He is the recipient of two National and PKU Young Talents Programs, 2012 and 2014, respectively. He is the recipient of Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award (求是杰出青年学者奖) 2015, Okawa Research Award 2016, CCF NLPCC Distinguished Young Scientist Award 2018, and COLING Best Paper Award 2018.

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News

• We have 6 long and 4 short papers accepted to ACL 2019 main conference. Congrats Shuming, Wei, Bingzhen, Chen, Xuancheng, Pengcheng and Fuli!
  
  
• We have 3 papers accepted to IJCAI 2019 main conference. Congrats Pengcheng, Fenglin, Xuancheng and Fuli!
  
  
• We have 1 paper accepted to ICLR 2019 main conference. Congrats Liangchen!
  
  
• We have 2 papers accepted to AAAI 2019 main conference. Congrats Shuming and Liangchen!
  
  
• We have 8 papers (4 long and 4 short) accepted to EMNLP 2018 main conference. Congrats Jingjing, Junyang, Fenglin, Yi, and Chen!
  
  
• Our paper receives two COLING 2018 Best Paper Awards! [link][photo1][photo2]
  
  
• We have 4 papers accepted to COLING 2018 main conference. Congrats Pengcheng, Yi, Junyang, and Hao!
  
  
• We have 6 papers accepted to ACL 2018 main conference. Congrats Jingjing, Wei, Shuming, Pengcheng, and Junyang!
  
  
• We have 2 papers accepted to AAAI 2018 main conference and 1 paper accepted to IJCAI 2018 main conference. Congrats Shuming, Xiaodong and Chengyao!
  
  

Our Research Group

• Language Computing and Machine Learning Group (in Chinese)

Research Interests

• Natural language generation
  
  • Dialogue (AAAI2019, EMNLP 2018)
  • Machine Translation (ACL2019, ACL2018, EMNLP 2018)
  • Summarization (ACL 2018, IJCAI 2018, ACL 2017)
  • Vision to Language Generation (ACL 2019, AAAI 2019, IJCAI 2019, EMNLP 2018)
  
  
• Deep learning for language
  • Sparse Deep Learning (ICML 2017, TKDE 2018)
  • Neural Network Optimization (ICLR 2019)
  • Generative Adversarial Network (EMNLP 2018)
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning (ACL 2019, ACL 2018)

Publications

• Selected papers

Awards

• COLING 2018 Best Paper Award [link][photo1][photo2], 2018


• Distinguished Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2018


• 1st Rank Prize, Science and Technology Prize of CIE (Chinese Institute of Electronics), 2018 (中国电子学会科学技术奖一等奖)


• Architecture Innovation Award, JD Dialogue Challenge, 2018


• CCF NLPCC Distinguished Young Scientist Award, 2018


• Okawa Research Award, Japan, 2017


• Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award (求是杰出青年学者奖), Qiu Shi Foundation, 2015


• Peking University Outstanding Faculty, 2015


• Recipient of the China's Youth 1000-Talent Program (青年千人计划), the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, China, 2014


• Recipient of Peking University 100 Young Talents Program, 2012

Academic Activities

• Selected Academic Services
  • Standing Review Committee (2018 - 2020)： Transactions of Association of Computational Linguistics (TACL Journal)
  • Senior Program Committee (SPC): IJCAI-ECAI 2018
  • Area Chair: NLPCC 2018 (Machine Learning)
  • Area Chair: IJCNLP 2017 (Morphology, Segmentation & Tagging)
  • Tutorial Co-chair: CCL 2017
  • Student Workshop Co-chair: NLPCC 2017
  • Area Chair: EMNLP 2015 (Morphology, Segmentation & Tagging)
  • Area Chair: YCCL 2012


• Program committee member
  • ACL, ICML, NIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, EMNLP, COLING, NAACL, ACML, PAKDD, CCL, NLPCC, LREC


• Journal reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (since 2015)
  • Computational Linguistics (since 2012)
  • Transactions of ACL (since 2016)
  • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (since 2016)
  • Information Processing and Management (since 2011)
  • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (since 2009)
  • Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) (since 2017)

Education

• PhD in computer science, The University of Tokyo, 2010. Advisor: Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii


• M.S. in computer science, Peking University, 2007.


• B.E. in computer science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2004

Work Experience

• Tenured Associate Professor and PhD Supervisor, Peking University, 2019-now


• Tenure-Track Faculty and PhD Supervisor, Peking University, 2012-2018


• Researcher, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2012


• Researcher, Cornell University, 2011


• Researcher, The University of Tokyo, 2010 - 2011


• Intern, Microsoft Research Redmond, 2009 Summer


• Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, 2005 Summer

Students

Github

• AdaBound (An optimizer that trains as fast as Adam and as good as SGD)
• pkuseg (A multi-domain Chinese word segmentation toolkit)

Links

• Google Scholar


• DBLP


• Research Gate

Teaching

Patents

Sponsors