About
I am always looking for highly-motivated post-docs and visiting scholars to work together on Large Language Model,
Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, and Social Computing. Please read the instructions and email me
with your CV.
Publications
For a complete list of papers, please see my Google Scholar profile.
Part of Students & Postdoc
Graduates
Cunchao Tu
2013-2018
PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Social Computation and Network Embedding. Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Thesis, Tsinghua and Beijing Outstanding Graduate. -> 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
Yankai Lin
2014-2019
PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Graphs. Beijing Outstanding Graduate. -> Tencent Wechat. -> Faculty at RUC
Cheng Yang
2014-2019
PhD Collaborated on Network Embedding. Network Embedding and Its Applications. CIPS Outstanding PhD Thesis. -> Faculty at BUPT
Ruobing Xie
2014-2017
Master Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Representation Learning. Tsinghua Outstanding Master Thesis, Tsinghua and Beijing Outstanding Graduate, Siebel Scholars. -> Tencent Wechat
Xu Han
2017-2022
PhD. Knowledge Computing, LLM Infrastructure. National Scholarship, Jiang Nanxiang and Zhongshimo Scholarship in THU, Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Thesis, Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar, Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Training Program Excellent Graduate. -> Researcher at THU
Yuan Yao
2018-2023
PhD. Multimodal LLM. The Comprehensive First Scholarship of Tsinghua University, First Scholarship of Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Training Program, Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award - Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations, Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar. -> Assistant Professor at THU
Ning Ding
2018-2023
PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Haitao Zheng. LLM Adaptation and Alignment. National Scholarship, Baidu Scholarship, Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Thesis, Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar, ACL Best Demo Paper Award,World Artificial Intelligence Conference Youth Outstanding Paper Award. -> Assistant Professor at THU
Haoxi Zhong
2018-2021
Master. Legal NLP. Tsinghua Outstanding Master Thesis and Outstanding Graduate, Siebel Scholars. -> Tencent
Kaitao Zhang
2018-2021
Master. Neural IR. Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate
Jie Zhou
2018-2021
Master. Graph Neural Networks. Tsinghua and Beijing Outstanding Graduate, National Scholarship. -> ModelBest
Yusheng Su
2019-2023
PhD. PLM. -> AMD
Ganqu Cui
2019-2024
PhD. Big Model Alignment. The Comprehensive First Scholarship of Tsinghua University, LongFor Scholarship, Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Thesis and Graduate. -> Shanghai AI Lab
Zhengyan Zhang
2019-2024
PhD. Knowledge Computing, LLM Infrastructure. -> DeepSeek
Yujia Qin
2020-2024
PhD. Tool Learning with LLM. Baidu scholarship, First Scholarship of Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Training Program. -> Startup
Jing Yi
2020-2023
Master. -> NLP Lab, Baidu
Fengyu Wang
2020-2023
Master. Controlable Text Generation. -> Alibaba
Shengding Hu
2020-2025
PhD. Efficient Pretraining and Fine-tuning Methods for LLM. Siebel Scholarship and the National Graduate Scholarship.
Zheni Zeng
2020-2025
PhD. Scientific Intelligence, Domain-Specific Large Model. Tsinghua and Beijing Outstanding Graduate, National Scholarship.
Chaojun Xiao
2020-2025
PhD. Efficient Large Model Architecture. First Prize of Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award, Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Talent Program Distinguished Scholarship, Best Paper Award at the National Social Media Processing Conference.
Yuzhong Wang
2021-2024
Master. LLM Infrastructure. Future Scholar Scholarship, Tsinghua University. -> NVIDIA DevTech
Chaoqun He
2021-2024
Master. LLM Assessment. -> THU PhD
Zefan Wang
2021-2024
Master. LLM-driven agents. -> QiYuan
Haoye Zhang
2022-2025
Master
Shi Yu
2021-
Doctoral student
Weize Chen
2021-
Doctoral student
Chenyang Song
2022-
Doctoral student
Weilin Zhao
2023-
Doctoral student
Yuqi Luo
2023-
Doctoral student
Yu Xia
2023-
Doctoral student
Yaxi Lu
2023-
Doctoral student
Bingxiang He
2024-
Doctoral student
Yingfa Chen
2024-
Doctoral student
Zhenning Dai
2024-
Master's student
Postdoctoral Fellow
Huadong Wang
2018-2023
NLP, Knowledge Graph. PhD from FEDS CAS. -> ModelBest
Shuangjie Li
2022-2024
Computational Jiaguology. PhD from FDU. Published three academic books and a series of interdisciplinary research papers, including "AI-Guided Human Intuition Discovers New Oracle Bone Fragment Rejoinings" and "New Decipherments of Palaeographic Documents Boosted by Intelligent Digital Technologies". -> Assistant Professor at THU
Chen Qian
2023-2025
Co-supervised by Professor Maosong Sun. PhD from THU. Specializes in large language model-driven autonomous agents. During the doctoral period, received the National Scholarship, Huawei Scholarship, and Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. Selected for Tsinghua University's Shuimu Scholar Program, Tencent's Tech Elite Program, Tencent's Rhino-Bird Special Program, National Postdoctoral Researcher Funding Program, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Program. -> Associate Professor at SJTU
Xin Cong
2023-
LLM-based Autonomous Agent. PhD From IIE CAS. National Scholarship, Huiyan Foundation Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF.
Zhong Zhang
2024-
LLM Agents. PhD from UESTC. UESTC and Sichuan Outstanding Graduate, DASFAA Best Paper Award, Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar.
Haotian Chen
2024-
Tool learning and autonomous agent. PhD from FDU. Awarded "Outstanding Graduate of Liaoning Province" during undergraduate studies. Received "Outstanding Graduate," "Academic Excellence Scholarship," and "Excellent Student Award" from Fudan University and the "Microsoft Tomorrow Star Award" during doctoral studies. Conducted postdoctoral research in the CS Department at Tsinghua University and received the 76th General Grant of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
Yuxiao Ye
2024-
Multi-agent systems and Legal AI. Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar.
Huiyuan Xie
2024-
Research interests focus on explanability and reliability of legal large language models. PhD from Cambridge.
Undergraduates
2020
Kaiyue Wen
THU->Stanford PhD
Yifan Luo
BUPT->THU PhD
Bingxiang He
THU->THU PhD
Chenglei Si
UMD->Stanford PhD
Zhiyuan Zeng
THU->UW PhD
Cheng Qian
THU->UIUC PhD
Runchu Tian
THU->UIUC PhD
Yida Lu
THU->THU PhD
Ziqing Qiao
THU->THU PhD
Bangchen Yin
THU->THU PhD
Wentao Li
THU->THU PhD
Fangzhou Liu
THU->THU PhD
Sihan Zhao
THU->THU PhD
Xingtai Lü
THU->THU PhD
Zhennin Dai
THU->THU MSc
Zikun Nie
THU->THU PhD
Yibin Yan
BUPT->SJTU PhD
Hongzhe Bi
BUPT->THU PhD
Hantao Zhou
BUPT->UHH MSc
Hanbin Wang
NEU->PKU MSc
Rongfan Liu
DKU->DKU MSc
Minghao Qin
USTB->CAS PhD
2019
Weilin Zhao
THU->THU PhD
Yuqi Luo
THU->THU PhD
Zhitong Wang
THU->THU MSc
Zichun Yu
THU->CMU PhD
Zhenyu Li
THU->THU PhD
Jiajie Zhang
THU->THU PhD
Zhiyi Chen
THU->THU MSc
Guang Yang
THU->UW PhD
Zihan Cai
THU->NUS MSc
Suyuan Zhao
THU->THU PhD
Xiaomeng Hu
NEU->CUHK PhD
Zhen Zhang
THU->UCSB PhD
Zhiyu Xie
THU->Stanford MSc
Ruotian Yan
THU->THU PhD
Chenghao Fan
HUST->HUST MSc
Xiuyuan Huang
USTB->PKU MSc
Hongcheng Gao
CQU->UCAS MSc
Lifan Yuan
HUST->UIUC PhD
Bokai Xu
CUHKSZ->UMD MSc
2018
Yuan Zang
THU->Brown PhD
Yuzhuo Bai
THU->THU PhD
Chenyang Song
THU->THU PhD
Yushi Bai
THU->THU PhD
Keyue Qiu
THU->THU PhD
Bowen Dong
THU->THU PhD
Guangzhi Xiong
THU->UVA PhD
Jiayou Zhang
THU->ADU PhD
Qianrui Zhou
THU->THU PhD
Yongwei Li
THU->USC MSc
Yingfa Chen
THU->THU MSc
Xinlin Peng
THU->UCAS MSc
Yutao Sun
THU->THU PhD
Yufeng Du
THU->UIUC PhD
Lan Yan
THU->CMU MSc
Zeyu Pan
THU->UCLA MSc
Shihao Liang
TJU->HKU MSc
Changyao Tian
BUAA->CUHK PhD
Yangyi Chen
HUST->UIUC PhD
Dawei Jin
Caltech->MIT MSc
Qiaosen Wang
USTC->UChicago PhD
Chenning Sun
CUGB->THU MSc
2017
Yuzhong Wang
THU->THU MSc
Shi Yu
THU->THU PhD
Weize Chen
THU->THU PhD
Yulin Chen
THU->NYU PhD
Chuancheng Lü
THU->THU MSc
Jinyi Hu
THU->THU PhD
Yingzhuo Qian
THU->NYU MSc
Peidong Cai
THU->THU MSc
Bairu Hou
THU->UCSB PhD
Zongyu Lin
THU->UCLA PhD
Zeyuan Zhang
THU->UCSD MSc
Haoye Zhang
THU->THU MSc
Yi Dai
THU->THU PhD
Zhengxian Fan
UCL->Oxford PhD
Qianyu Chen
HIT->CUHK PhD
2016
Xiaozhi Wang
THU->THU PhD
Tianyu Gao
THU->PU PhD
Shengding Hu
THU->THU PhD
Chaojun Xiao
THU->THU PhD
Guoyang Zeng
THU->Startup
Yujia Qin
THU->THU PhD
Juexiao Zhang
THU->THU PhD
Ziqi Wang
THU->UIUC PhD
Xurui Zhang
THU->Gatech MSc
Haozhe Ji
THU->THU PhD
Ruidong Wu
THU->
Liang Chang
BUPT->
Ao Zhang
NJU->NUS PhD
Junjie Huang
BUAA->
Sicong Ouyang
BUPT->
2015
Hao Zhu
THU->CMU PhD
Changhe Song
THU->THU PhD
Xiang Li
THU->
Yihong Gu
THU->PU PhD
Yifan Qiao
THU->UCLA PhD
Jun Yan
THU->USC PhD
Pengfei Yu
THU->UIUC PhD
Qimin Zhan
THU->HKUST PhD
Zhijingcheng Yu
THU->NUS PhD
Yuhui Zhang
THU->
Zhengyan Zhang
THU->THU PhD
Chenghao Yang
BUAA->UChicago PhD
Kunlun Zhu
SYSU->UIUC PhD
Zhiyuan Liu
XJTU->NUS PhD
2014
Deming Ye
THU->THU PhD
Yuan Yao
THU->THU PhD
Jiaju Du
THU->THU MSc
Yilin Niu
THU->THU PhD
Haoxi Zhong
THU->THU MSc
Ziyun Wang
THU->NYU MSc
Ji Xin
THU->U Waterloo PhD
Zikun Hu
THU->NUS PhD
Luming Tang
THU->Cornell PhD
Zecong Hu
THU->CMU MSc
Xingchi Yuan
THU->Google
Shangbang Long
PKU->CMU MSc
2013
Lei Xu
THU->MIT PhD
Xu Han
THU->THU PhD
Zhipeng Guo
THU->THU MSc
Wenyuan Zeng
THU->U Toronto PhD
Hao Wang
THU->NTU PhD
2012
Hongyin Luo
THU->MIT PhD
Zichuan Lin
THU->THU MSc
Weicheng Zhang
BUPT->JHU MSc
Deyang Yin
BUPT->Columbia MSc
2011
Yang Liu
THU->UIUC PhD
Tianze Shi
THU->Cornell PhD
Ying Lin
BUPT->RPI PhD
Haitian Gong
BUPT->CMU MSc
2010
Yan Wang
THU->CMU MSc
Yankai Lin
THU->THU PhD
2009
Han Zhao
THU->UWaterloo MSc
Chen Liang
THU->PSU PhD
Han Li
THU->WISC PhD
Cunchao Tu
THU->THU PhD
Xiaowen Chu
BUPT->CMU MSc
2008
Sicong Zhang
THU->GU PhD
Weipeng He
THU->UHH MSc
2007
Wenyi Huang
THU->PSU PhD
Xinxiong Chen
THU->THU PhD->Startup
2006
Xiaoxiao Li
BUPT->Alberta MSc
Chuan Shi
THU EE->UMN PhD
2005
Peng Li
THU->THU AIR
Bio
Education and Experience
Dec, 2021 - Now
Tenured Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Dec, 2017 - Dec, 2021
Tenure-track Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Aug, 2016 - Dec, 2017
Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Dec, 2013 - Aug, 2016
Assistant Researcher, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Aug, 2011 - Dec, 2013
Postdoc, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Aug, 2006 - Jul, 2011
PhD, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Sep, 2002 - Jul, 2006
Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Research Fundings
PI. Theories and Methods of Few-shot Natural Language Processing (62236004). Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2023-2027.
PI. Research and Demonstration Application of Sparse Modular Large Model Technology (Z231100007423005). Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. 2023-2025.
PI. Knowledge-Guided Natural Language Processing. National Young Talent Program. 2021-2023.
PI. Key Technologies for Online Learning Assistants (2018YFB1004503). National Key Research and Development Program of China. 2018-2020.
Project member (rank 2nd). Foundational Methods for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing with Multilevel and Diverse Knowledge Integration (61661146007). Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2017-2019.
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. National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2012-2015.
Project member (rank 2nd). Research on Attributes, Structure and Evolutionary Dynamics of Chinese Complex Networks. National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2009-2011.
Project member. Research on Semantic Classification and Understanding of Large-scale Web Image and Text Data. National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program). 2007-2009.
Awards
2024. First Prize of Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award. Key Technologies and Applications for Systematic Legal Intelligence through Deep Integration of Data-Driven and Knowledge-Guided Approaches. (Accomplished by: Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Cunchao Tu, Chaojun Xiao, Weixing Shen, Haoxi Zhong, Zhipeng Guo, Yun Liu, Guoyang Zeng, Xu Han, Chengqiang Xu, Yuzhong Wang, Cheng Yang, Huadong Wang, Feng Yao).
2024. The 8th Young Teaching Excellence Award of Beijing Higher Education Institutions.
2024. Intel China Academic Achievement Award - Outstanding Innovation (Members: Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Xu Han, Yuan Yao, Shengding Hu, Guoyang Zeng, Ning Ding, Ganqu Cui, Tianyu Yu, Chenyang Song, Weilin Zhao, Yuxiang Huang, Chaoqun He, Xinrong Zhang).
2024. Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Thesis Adviser (PhD Graduate: Ganqu Cui).
2023. Outstanding Teacher Award in Computer Science for Higher Education
2023. World Internet Conference Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology (Basic Research). Multi-Level Multi-Type Knowledge Fused Deep Learning Fundamental Methods for Natural Languages (Accomplished by: Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Xu Han, Qun Liu, Xinxiong Chen, Zhengyan Zhang, Xin Jiang, Huanbo Luan).
2023. Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations Adviser (PhD Graduate: Yuan Yao).
2022. World Internet Conference Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology. Systematized Basic Algorithms and Open-Source Tools for Representation Learning of Large Scale Knowledge Graph (Accomplished by: Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yankai Lin, Cheng Yang, Ruobing Xie, Xu Han).
2022. Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Thesis Adviser (PhD Graduate: Xu Han).
2022. First Prize of the State Natural Science Award, and the Outstanding Achievement Awards for Scientific Research in Institutes of Higher Education (Science and Technology) by the Ministry of Education. Foundational Methods for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing with Multilevel and Diverse Knowledge Integration (Authors: Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Xu Han, Qun Liu, Xinxiong Chen, Zhengyan Zhang, Xin Jiang, Huanbo Luan).
2021. Outstanding Young AE, Frontiers of Computer Science (2019-2020).
2021. Tsinghua Outstanding Master Thesis Adviser (Master graduate: Haoxi Zhong).
2021. First Prize for Teaching Achievements Award of Tsinghua University, Adhere to the Dual Approach of Ideological Guidance and Tailored Instruction, and build the 'Five-Star Program' Comprehensive Education System (Yiqun Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiaohui Xie, Wentao Han, Xu Han).
2021. First Prize for Teaching Achievements Award of Tsinghua University, 'Virtue, Ability, and Rigor'-Driven Innovation Training System for PhD Students in the Department of Computer Science, Emphasizing the 'Three Comprehensive' Approach (Maosong Sun, Yongwei Wu, Zhiyuan Liu, Xin Yi, Liwei Bao).
2020. First Prize of the State Natural Science Award, and the Outstanding Achievement Awards for Scientific Research in Institutes of Higher Education (Science and Technology) by the Ministry of Education. A Representation Learning Method for Structured Knowledge (Authors: Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yankai Lin, Cheng Yang, Ruobing Xie).
2020. First Prize of Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award. Key Technology and Open-Source Application for Large-scale Chinese Lexical Semantics Analysis (Authors: Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yang Liu, Liner Yang, Xinxiong Chen, Cunchao Tu, Peng Li, Xiance Si, Wei Qiao).
2020. National Young Talents Program.
2020. Frontrunner 5000, Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journals of China (F5000, Knowledge Representation Learning: A Review, with Yankai Lin and Ruobing Xie as the student authors).
2020. 2019 Hot Paper Award of SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis (Network representation learning: an overview, with Cunchao Tu and Cheng Yang as the student authors).
2020. Excellent Reviewer, Journal of Tsinghua University Science and Technology.
2020. Most Influential Scholar Award (AI 2000) in AAAI/IJCAI and Honorable Mention in NLP.
2020. Best Short Paper Award of SIGIR 2020 (Few-Shot Generative Conversational Query Rewriting, with Shi Yu as the first author).
2020. Advanced Worker, Tsinghua University.
2019. Distinguished Speaker, CCF.
2019. Young Scientist of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).
2019. Outstanding Paper Award of Chinese Journalism and Communication Yearbook (Early automatic detection of rumors on social media platforms, with Changhe Song and Cheng Yang as the student authors).
2018. MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, China.
2017. Young Talent Support Project of CAST.
Academic Services
Director, CIPS.
Vice Chair, SMP.