I have been a faculty member at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) since 2021. From 2016 to 2020, I worked as a researcher at the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) at Kyoto, following an internship there in 2013. I am deeply grateful to my senseis at NICT—Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita—for their invaluable guidance, support, and inspiration throughout my time in Japan. From 2012 to 2016, I pursued a joint Ph.D. between SJTU and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Lyon, under the supervision of Hai Zhao, Bao-Liang Lu, and Sabine Ploux. Prior to my doctoral studies, I studied and worked at the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2012. I earned my bachelor's degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2009. I was born in Harbin, China, in 1985—the city I proudly call home.
Language Intelligence is a form of cognitive capability—shared by humans and increasingly emulated by machines—that enables agents to learn about the external world through natural language, construct highly abstract linguistic representations, and thereby understand, refine, and creatively transform that world. Our research seeks to explore and expand the frontiers of this intelligence across three interconnected domains:
I have always been fortunate to work with these brilliant young researchers. Beginning in 2026, our lab will prioritize recruiting students dedicated to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the humanities and sciences, particularly those interested in exploring individual cognitive capacities and collective cognitive organization in artificial intelligence. For applicants focused on conventional NLP and ML, we will generally not be admitting new students in the short term, unless they are exceptionally outstanding (i.e., fully capable of conducting high-level research independently).
NSFC, 62176153, Multilingual Unsupervised Machine Translation, PI, 2022-2025
JSPS, 19K20354, Toward Unsupervised Machine Translation, PI, 2019-2020
We sincerely express our gratitude to Tencent, Ant Group, Alibaba, Hithink RoyalFlush, Baidu, and other companies for their generous financial support to our laboratory.
Teaching
Lecture
CS3966: Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model (for the John Class), 2024-
CS4314: Natural Language Processing (for the CS major), 2021-
CS3602: Natural Language Processing (for the AI major), 2021-2026
CS438: Information Extraction, 2021-2023
CS247: Data Mining, 2021-2022
