This is Qiang /chee ung/. I’m currently an applied scientist on the Alexa Search team at Amazon. I was a research scientist on the AllenNLP team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) after I spent three wonderful years as a Ph.D. student in the Cognitive Computation Group (CogComp), advised by Prof. Dan Roth. Prior to that, I got my master’s degree from UIUC and bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua. My research interests include natural language understanding and learning from indirect supervision. Please find my CV here.
Education
- 2016-2019: Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, UIUC [Thesis]
- 2017: Visiting student, University of Pennsylvania
- 2013-2016: Master in Signal Processing and Biomedical Imaging, UIUC [Thesis]
- 2012: Summer student intern, University of Southern California
- 2010-2013: Bachelor of Economics, Tsinghua University
- 2009-2013: Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
Work Experience
- Applied Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Boston, MA, 2020 —
- Research Scientist, AllenNLP, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Irvine, CA, 2019 — 2020
- Machine Learning Intern, Ads Ranking, Facebook, Seattle, WA, Summer 2017
- Research Intern, Computational Behavior Group in ISI, USC, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2012
- Research Intern, Mobile and Sensing Systems Group, MSRA, Beijing, Spring 2012
Teaching Experience
Awards & Honors
| List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for ECE120 | 2017 |
| The YEE Fellowship, College of Engineering | 2015-2016 |
| Finalist for the Best Paper Award, IEEE ISBI | 2015 |
| National Scholarship, Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University | 2010-2012 |
| First Prize in National Physics Olympiad, Shaanxi Province, China | 2008 |
Contact
Working from home…
“first name initial” “last name” at amazon dot com