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Bang Liu

Bang Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the University of Montreal. He is a core member of the RALI laboratory (Applied Research in Computer Linguistics) of DIRO, an associate member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, and a Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) Chair. He received his B.Engr. degree in 2013 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), as well as his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from University of Alberta in 2015 and 2020, respectively. His research interests primarily lie in the areas of natural language processing (NLP), data mining, multimodal and multitask learning, AI + X (e.g., animation, VR, health). For hobbies, he enjoys drawing, guitar, Japanese Manga, and various sports.

Openings: I am looking for highly-motivated students to work on natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, and a broad range of topics related to artificial intelligence. Please send me your CV if interested.

What’s New

  • 05/2022: One paper on Social Media Content Tagging is accepted by KDD'22.
  • 04/2022: We organized the ICLR'22 Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing Workshop. (DLG4NLP@ICLR’22)
  • 04/2022: Received a Tencent WeChat Rhino-Bird Gift Fund. Thanks Tencent!
  • 03/2022: Two papers on Taxonomy Expansion and Reading Path Generation are accepted by ICDE'22 (Industry Track).
  • 03/2022: One paper on Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering is accepted by CVPR'22.
  • 02/2022: One paper on model measurement and question answering is accepted by ACL'22.
  • 02/2022: I accepted the invitation to serve as Program Committee member of CIKM 2022.
  • 02/2022: I gave a training course “Knowledge graphs: Extracting and leveraging meaning from unstructured text” in the NLP Training Series organized by IVADO and CLIQ-ai. (Slides)
  • 01/2022: Two papers on knowledge-based question answering and multi-modal knowledge graph are accepted by DASFAA'22.
  • 01/2022: One paper on reasoning over graphs is accepted by ICLR'22 as spotlight.
  • 01/2022: One paper on taxonomy completion is accepted by WWW'22.
  • 12/2021: One paper on code modeling is accepted by ICSE-NIER'22.
  • 12/2021: I am quite honoured to be named as a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. (CIFAR News)
  • 12/2021: One conference tutorial on GNNs for NLP is accepted at WWW'22.
  • 11/2021: I completed my duty of serving as a voluntary mentor in the Mila Mentorship Program.
  • 11/2021: My PhD student Suyuchen Wang won the Artificial Intelligence Scholarship.
  • 11/2021: My MSc student Pierre-William Breau has been awarded and accepted the Graduate and Postdoctoral Excellence Scholarships.
  • 11/2021: One paper on question answering is accepted at ICDE'22.
  • 11/2021: I accepted the invitation to serve as Program Committee member of the Applied Science Track of ACM SIGKDD 2022.
  • 11/2021: One workshop proposal "Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing (Graph4NLP)" is accepted and will take place at NAACL 2022, ICLR 2022.

Education & Training

  • Ph.D.January 2016 - January 2020

    Doctor of Philosophy

    University of Alberta (UA), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canada

  • M.Sc.September 2013 - September 2015

    Master of Science

    University of Alberta (UA), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canada

  • B.E.August 2009 - June 2013

    Bachelor of Engineering

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, China

Honors & Awards

  • Dec. 2021
    Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) Chair
  • May 2020
    Governor General’s Gold Medal nomination
  • May 2020
    George Walker PhD Award in Electrical Engineering
  • Sep. 2017 - Sep. 2019
    Alberta Innovates - Graduate Student Scholarship (63,000 CAD)
  • Apr. 2019
    J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award (1,500 CAD)
  • Jan. 2016 - Jan. 2017
    University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship (15,000 CAD)
  • Oct. 2012
    Outstanding Student Scholarship of USTC
  • Mar. 2012
    Meritorious Winner in Mathematical Contest in Modeling
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    Top 11% among 3697 teams.
    2012 MCM Problem A Results.
  • Oct. 2011
    Award of Excellence in the 11th Robogame Contest of USTC
  • Oct. 2010
    Outstanding Student Scholarship of USTC