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), advised by Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii. 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 natural language generation and deep learning for language. He received COLING Best Paper Award 2018.

中文简介

Our Research Group

• Language Computing and Machine Learning Group (in Chinese)

Research Interests

• Natural language generation
  
  • Dialogue (AAAI2019, EMNLP 2018)
  • Machine Translation (ACL2019, ACL2018)
  • Summarization (ACL 2018, ACL 2017)
  • Vision to Language Generation (ACL 2019, EMNLP 2018)
  
  
• Deep learning for language
  • Sparse Deep Learning (ICML 2017, TKDE 2018)
  • Optimization (ICLR 2019, NIPS 2014)
  • Generative Adversarial Network (EMNLP 2018)
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning (ACL 2019, ACL 2018)

Publications

• Selected papers

Awards

• COLING 2018 Best Paper Award [link], 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


• 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

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)

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

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