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
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            Oct. 2011
                                                
                                                
                                                    Award of Excellence in the 11th Robogame Contest of USTC
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                            
                                                Oct. 2010
                                                
                                                
                                                    Outstanding Student Scholarship of USTC