National University of Singapore, B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering (1999)
National University of Singapore, Ph.D in Computer Science (2005)
SJTU Medical-Engineering Cross-disciplinary Research Scheme (Co-PI), “A Chest Cancer Database
and Diagnositic Model based on Large Datasets”, 2019-2021, RMB 500,000.
Leyan Joint Research Grant (PI), “Data Augmentation in Cross-Domain Semantic Understanding and
Knowledge Construction”, 2018-2019, RMB 520,000.
Didi-SJTU Joint Research Scheme (PI), “A dataset of multi-turn QA”, 2018-2019, RMB 150,000.
Morgan Stanley Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Data Lineage Discovery”, 2018, RMB60,000.
SJTU-Michigan Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Automatic construction of a causality knowledge base
from large online financial text”, 2017-2018, USD 100,000.
Morgan Stanley Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Modernizing C++ with GSL Core Guidelines”, 2017,
RMB 150,000.
NSFC Key Program (Grant No. 91646205) (Co-PI), “Big Data Driven Holistic Management for
Cardiovascular Health,” 2017-2021, RMB 2,400,000.
Xuebajun Research Grant (PI), “Knowledge Base Question Answering,” 2016-2017, RMB 240,000.
CTRIP Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Change and Cancellation Policy Mining for Flight Reservations,”
2016, RMB 60,000.
Shanghai University Model Courses for International Students, “Programming Languages”, 2015-2017,
RMB 100,000.
Morgan Stanley Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Dead Code Detection of Real World Scala Applications
- Phase II”, 2015-2016, RMB 200,000.
Morgan Stanley Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Dead Code Detection of Scale Source Code”, 2015-2016,
RMB 200,000.
Morgan Stanley Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Dead Code Detection in Scala Compiler Source”, 2015,
RMB 200,000.
Google Faculty Research Award (PI), “Action Conceptualization from Text Documents”, 2013, USD
23,000.
Oracle Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Automatic Extraction of Computing Topics from Large Code
Repositories”, 2013-2014, USD 29,412.
AstraZeneca Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Information Extraction from Medical Documents”, 2013-
2014, RMB 172,500.
NSFC General Program (Grant No. 61373031) (PI), “An Ontology Based on Action Concepts and
Its Applications on Text Processing”, 2014-2017, RMB 750,000.
Shanghai Model University Course Award, “Database System Concepts”, 2014-2016, RMB 40,000.
Microsoft Joint Research Scheme (PI), “Text Understanding and Classi?cation Using Structured
Knowledge”, 2011-2012, USD 20,000.
NSFC Young Scientist Program (Grant No. 61100050) (PI), “Incremental Format Inference from Ad
Hoc Data”, 2012-2014, RMB 220,000.
Chinese Ministry of Education New Faculty Award (No. 20110073120023) (PI), 2012-2014, RMB
40,000.
NSFC Key Program (Grant No. 61033002) (Co-PI), “M-Models and M-Solvability”, 2011-2014, RMB
2,000,000.
SJTU-Morgan Stanley Joint Research Scheme (Co-PI), “Data Privacy”, 2011-2012, RMB 120,000.
Shanghai Bai Yu Lan Science and Technology Grant (PI), 2012, RMB 22,000.
SJTU Distinguished Research Fellow Award (PI), 2010-2012, RMB 200,000.
Area Chair: WAIM 2011.
PC member: AAAI 2019, IJCAI 2018, AAAI 2018, AAAI 2017, COLING 2014, ECML 2014, APLAS 2013, SAC 2014, ODBASE 2013, WWW 2013,
CIKM 2012, ECML 2011, NDBC 2011.
Reviewer: TKDE, VLDB, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., AI in Engineering, CP, ICLP.