CV

CV can be downloaded here

Education

  • Ph.D in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), The University of Melbourne
  • M.Eng. Software Systems Engineering, The University of Melbourne
  • B.Eng. Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology

Professional Experience

  • Research Intern at Facebook AI Research (Seattle, WA, USA), Sept, 2018–Jan, 2019
    • Research Topic and Achievements: Coreference resolution, memory-enhanced deep learning models, paper accepted at ACL 2019
    • Supervisors: Jacob Eisenstein and Luke Zettlemoyer.
  • Research Assistant (Casual) at The University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia), May, 2017–Aug, 2017
    • Research Duties: Responsible for implementing a bi-directional LSTM-CRF model for sequential tagging tasks in low-resource languages for the DARPA-funded LORELEI project in collaboration with CMU.
  • Research Intern at Xerox Research Centre Europe (Grenoble, France), May, 2016–Oct, 2016:
    • Research Topic and Achievements: Memory Networks, deep learning approach for personality trait recognition, 3 papers accepted at EACL 2017
    • Supervisors: Scott Nowson, Julien Perez
  • Research Assistant (Casual) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology(Victoria, Australia), Sept, 2014–Feb, 2015:
    • Detailed Achievements: Customized Search Engine for Industry Partner. Managed to increase the accuracy of the query boundary detection process by 10% by applying machine learning techniques. Significantly improved the performance of the search engine (F-score from less than 10 to around 55 by boosting precision substantially and factoring in translation probabilities to detect paraphrases).
    • Supervisor: Xiuzhen Zhang
  • Research Assistant (Casual) at The University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia), Sept, 2014–Dec, 2014

Awards and Additional Certificates

  • Sept, 2018: ICTIR 2018 Best Short Paper Award
  • Dec, 2017: ALTA 2017 Best Poster Award
  • Nov, 2017: ALTA 2017 Student Scholarship
  • Oct, 2017: Google PhD Travel Scholarship Award
  • July, 2017: Best Paper Award, 5th Annual Doctoral Colloquium, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
  • Apr, 2017: Conference Travel Scholarship, The University of Melbourne
  • Mar, 2017: Winning Team of Electronic Trading Challenge Hackathon
  • Sept, 2016: Best Intern Presentation Award, Xerox Research Centre Europe
  • July, 2016: SIGIR Travel Scholarship
  • May, 2016: 3rd Prize, Microsoft Data Science Student Challenge Hackathon
  • Feb, 2015 - Present: Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA Scholarship)

Skills

  • Primary language: Python, Java
  • Knowledge of: TensorFlow, Keras, Theano, LATEX, Linux
  • Development tools: VS Code, Eclipse, Git, SVN

Languages

  • English: Full Professional Proficiency
  • Japanese: Full Professional Proficiency
  • Chinese: Native or Bilingual Proficiency

Publications

Patents

Julien Perez, Scott Nowson, Fei Liu. Author personality trait recognition from short texts with a deep compositional learning approach. US10049103B2 (granted).

Julien Perez, Fei Liu, Scott Nowson. Gated end-to-end memory network. US20180232152A1 (application).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer for: EMNLP 2017, 2018, 2019; CoNLL 2018; NAACL 2019; ACL 2019, 2020
  • PC member: PEOPLES 2018, ECNLP
  • Student volunteer: ACL 2018