Our Team

We are a vibrant team led by Xiaoyu Shen—including PhDs, research engineers, and interns—comes together with a shared passion for advancing natural language processing (NLP). We're dedicated to developing innovative algorithms that enable machines to truly understand, generate, and reason with human language.

PI Introduction

Xiaoyu Shen

Xiaoyu Shen graduated from the software institute of Nanjing University in 2015 as an undergraduate, and then received his PhD dearee from Max Planck institute for lnformatics and Saarbrücken Graduate School in Germany under the supervision of Gerhard Weikum and Dietrich Klakow. His research interests mainly include latent variable models, Bayesian inference, dialogue generation, Q&A systems, etc.

In September 2020, he joined Amazon Alexa Al Berlin R&D Center as a Machine Learning Scientist, leadingthe Alexa inteligent Customer Service Merchandise Q&A project. He joined EIT in November 2023 as an Associate Researcher and Ph.D. Supervisor, jointly cultivating Ph.D.students with Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Science and Technology of China and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

He has published over 60 papers in top conferences on artificial intelligence and natural language processing, such as ACL, ICML, EMNLP and ICSE. He has won the National Scholarship, Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing University, Outstanding Graduation Thesis, National Outstanding Self-funded Overseas Student, COLlNG Best Demo Paper Award, ACL Special Theme Paper Award, and ClS-RAM Best Paper Nomination.

He has given many invited presentations at the University of Tokyo, Cambridge University, Google Brain, etc. He is a commitee member of several top conferences and journals including ACL, EMNLP, AISTAS, NeurlPS, TOlS, area chair of ACL, theme editor of High-Performance Computing for Al in Big Model Era.

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