Associate Professor
NLP Lab, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7709-2543
Research Interests: NLP, knowledge graph, social computing
Email: liuzy [at] tsinghua.edu.cn
Add: Room 4-506, FIT Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084
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I am always looking for highly-motivated post-docs and visiting scholars to work together on natural language processing, knowledge graphs, and social computing. Please read the instructions and email me with your CV.
- Natural Language Processing. Language: English. The degree course of CS graduate students (specially for the Master Program of Advanced Programming) at Tsinghua University. [link]
- Foundations of Object-Oriented Programming. Language: Chinese. The compulsory course of CS undergraduate students at Tsinghua University. [link]
- Media Programming. Language: Chinese. The programming course specifically designed for journalism (and liberal arts) undergraduate students at Tsinghua University. [link]
- Model Knowledge Stimulation with Prompts for Pre-trained Language Models. [Slides]
- Knowledge-Guided NLP. [Slides]
- Deep Learning and Computational Social Sciences. [Slides]
Graduates
- Cunchao Tu (2013-2018): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Social Computation and Network Embedding. -> THU Postdoc Fellow. -> Co-Founder of Power Law Inc.
- Ayana (2013-2019): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Document Summarization. -> Faculty at Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics.
- Cheng Yang (2014-2019): PhD Collaborated on network embedding. Network Embedding and Its Applications. -> Faculty at BUPT.
- Yankai Lin (2014-2019): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Graphs. -> Tencent Wechat.
- Ruobing Xie (2014-2017): Master Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Representation Learning. 2017 -> Tencent Wechat.
- Xu Han (2017-): PhD.
- Yuan Yao (2018-): PhD.
- Haoxi Zhong (2018-2021): Master. -> Tencent.
- Jie Zhou (2018-2021): Master.
- Kaitao Zhang (2018-2021): Master.
- Zhengyan Zhang (2019-): PhD.
- Ganqu Cui (2019-): Master.
- Chaojun Xiao (2020-): PhD.
- Zheni Zeng (2020-): PhD.
- Yujia Qin (2020-): PhD.
- Jing Yi (2020-): Master.
- Fengyu Wang (2020-): Master.
- Shengding Hu (2020-): Master.
- Weize Chen (2021-): PhD.
- Shi Yu (2021-): PhD.
- Yuzhong Wang (2021-): Master.
- Chaoqun He (2021-): Master.
Undergraduates
- Class 2019: Xun Sun (THU->), Wanrong He (THU->), Junwen Tan (THU->), Yining Ye (THU->), Muyan Hu (THU->), Chenning Sun (CUG->), Yutao Sun (THU->).
- Class 2018: Yuzhuo Bai (THU->), Keyue Qiu (THU->), Yongwei Li (THU->), Bowen Dong (THU->), Yushi Bai (THU->), Yufeng Du (THU->), Jiayou Zhang (THU->), Zeyuan Zhang (THU->), Guangxuan Xiao (THU->), Tianyu Wang (BJUT->), Yuan Zang (THU->), Weihan Jiang (Beihang->), Qianrui Zhou (THU->), Tingji Zhang (THU->), Yangyi Chen (HUST->), Xueyu Hu (Beihang->).
- Class 2017: Weize Chen (THU->THU PhD), Yi Dai (THU->THU PhD), Hao Peng (THU->THU Master), Ziqi Wang (THU->), Rong Han (THU->THU PhD), Wangyi Jiang (THU->CAS PhD), Tianyu Yu (Beihang->THU), Zhengxian Fan (UCL->), Yuxian Gu (THU->THU PhD), Yun Shi (THU->THU Master), Shi Yu (THU->THU PhD), Xurui Zhang (THU->), Bairu Hou (THU->), Mukai Li (Beihang->), Xuyang Jin (THU->), Chuancheng Lv (THU->THU Master), Shirong Ma (THU->THU Master), Yuzhong Wang (THU->THU Master).
- Class 2016: Liang Chang (BUPT->ByteDance), Tianyu Gao (THU->Princeton), Shengding Hu (THU->THU Master), Junjie Huang (Beihang->UIUC Master), Haozhe Ji (THU->THU PhD), Sicong Ouyang (BUPT->BUPT Master), Yujia Qin (THU->THU PhD), Xiaozhi Wang (THU->THU PhD), Ruidong Wu (THU->), Chaojun Xiao (THU->THU PhD), Guoyang Zeng (THU->THU), Juexiao Zhang (THU->), Zheni Zeng (THU->THU PhD), Kai Zhang (ZUCC->THU RA), Ao Zhang (NJU->THU RA), Chenyang Zhu (SUFE->THU RA), Xuanming Zhang (UNNC->THU RA), Sichen Jin (ZJU->THU RA), Lingbo Tong (SCU->THU RA).
- Class 2015: Xiang Li (THU->), Yihong Gu (THU->), Zhiyuan Liu (XJTU->NUS), Shangbang Long (PKU->), Yifan Qiao (THU->), Changhe Song (THU->THU Master), Jun Yan（THU->USC PhD), Chenghao Yang (Beihang->), Pengfei Yu (THU->UIUC PhD), Zhijingcheng Yu (THU->NUS PhD), Yuhui Zhang (THU->Stanford Master), Zhengyan Zhang (THU->THU PhD), Hao Zhu (THU->CMU PhD), Ganqu Cui (THU->THU Master).
- Class 2014: Deming Ye (THU->THU PhD), Yuan Yao (THU->THU PhD), Jiaju Du (THU->THU Master), Yilin Niu (THU->THU PhD), Haoxi Zhong (THU->THU Master), Luming Tang (THU->Cornell PhD), Ji Xin (THU->U Waterloo PhD), Xingchi Yuan (THU->Google), Ziyun Wang (THU->NYU Master), Zikun Hu (THU->NUS PhD).
- Class 2013: Lei Xu (THU->MIT PhD), Xu Han (THU->THU PhD), Zhipeng Guo (THU->THU Master), Hao Wang (THU->NTU PhD), Wenyuan Zeng (THU->U Toronto PhD), Jiawei Wu (THU->UCSB PhD).
- Class 2012: Honyin Luo (THU->MIT PhD), Zichuan Lin (THU->THU Master), Weicheng Zhang (BUPT->JHU Master), Deyang Yin (BUPT->Columbia Master).
- Class 2011: Yang Liu (THU->UIUC PhD), Tianze Shi (THU->Cornell PhD), Ying Lin (BUPT->RPI PhD), Haitian Gong (BUPT->CMU Master).
- Class 2010: Yan Wang (THU->CMU Master), Yankai Lin (THU->THU PhD).
- Class 2009: Han Zhao (THU->Waterloo Master), Chen Liang (THU->PSU PhD), Han Li (THU->WISC PhD), Cunchao Tu (THU->THU PhD), Xiaowen Chu (BUPT->CMU Master).
- Class 2008: Sicong Zhang(THU->Georgetown PhD), Weipeng He (THU->Hamburg Master).
- Class 2007: Wenyi Huang (THU->PSU PhD), Xinxiong Chen (THU->THU PhD->Startups).
- Class 2006: Xiaxiao Li (BUPT->Alberta Master), Chuan Shi (THU EE->UMN PhD).
- Class 2005: Peng Li (THU->THU PhD->Baidu IDL).
Education and Experience
- Aug, 2006 - 2011. Ph.D, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
- Sep, 2002 - Jul, 2006. Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
- Sep, 1989 - Jul, 2002. Elementary school, middle school and high school, Taian, Shandong.
Research Fundings
- PI. Distributed Representation Learning, Knowledge Acquisition and Inference Applications of Large-Scale Knowledge Graphs (61572273). National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2016-2019.
- PI. Robust Full-document Entity Recognition and Disambiguation with Large-Scale Knowledge Bases. MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Media and Networking Technology, Tsinghua University. 2014-2015.
- PI. Efficient Chinese Entity Linking for Large-scale Web Corpus to Heterogeneous Entity Networks. MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Media and Networking Technology, Tsinghua University. 2013-2014.
- PI. Research on Information Diffusion and Credibility in Social Media based on Collaborative Semantics. National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2013-2015.
- Project member (rank 2nd). Research on Chinese Keyword Annotation by Integrating Keyword Extraction and Social Tag Suggestion. 2012-2015, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
- Project member (rank 2nd). Research on Attributes, Structure and Evolutionary Dynamics of Chinese Complex Networks, 2009-2011, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
- Project member. Research on Semantic Classification and Understanding of Large-scale Web Image and Text Data, 2007-2009, National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program).
Awards
- 2020. Best Short Paper Award of SIGIR 2020 (with Shi Yu as the first author).
- 2020. Most Influential Scholar Award (AI 2000) in AAAI/IJCAI and Honorable Mention in NLP.
- 2019. Young Scientist of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).
- 2018. MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, China.
- 2017. Scholar of Young Talent Promoting Project of CAST.
- 2016. CIPS Youth Innovation Prize.
- 2016. Second Prize of Tsinghua Teaching Achievement Award (3rd/5).
- 2015. CCF-Intel Young Faculty Researcher Program (YFRP).
- 2014. Second Prize of Tsinghua Teaching Achievement Award (3rd/5).
- 2013. Excellent Post-doctoral Fellow Award, Tsinghua University.
- 2012. Excellent Counsellor Award of "Lin Feng", Tsinghua University.
- 2012. Excellent Doctoral Dissertation awarded by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- 2012. First Prize of Tsinghua Teaching Achievement Award (3rd/5).
- 2011. Second class award for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Tsinghua University.
- 2011. Advanced individual in Tsinghua University 100th Anniversary.
- 2010. Google China intern scholarship, Google.
- 2010. First class scholarship (Sohu Scholarship), Tsinghua University.
- 2009. First class scholarship (Tung OOCL Scholarship), Tsinghua University.
- 2008. Excellent Counsellor Award of "December 9th Movement", Tsinghua University.
- 2008. First class scholarship (Tung OOCL Scholarship), Tsinghua University.
- 2006. Excellent Graduate, Tsinghua University.
Academic Services
- Action Editor: TACL (2021-), ACL ARR (2021-).
- Editorial Board: Computational Linguistics (2021-), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2021-), Frontiers of Computer Science (2013-), Neurocomputing (2019-).
- PC Chair: CIKM 2020 Short Paper Track.
- Area Chair: ACL 2021 2018 2017, EMNLP 2021 2020 2019, WWW 2021, IJCAI 2021, COLING 2020 2018, AACL 2020, IJCNLP 2017, NLPCC 2020.
- Senior PC: IJCAI 2022.
- Others: IJCAI 2021 (Reproducibility), ACL 2020 (Publicity), CIKM 2019 (Publicity).
Last update: October 16, 2021.
