Zhiyuan Liu

Associate Professor

Highlights

Teaching

• 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]

Talks

• Knowledge-Guided NLP. [Slides]
• Deep Learning and Computational Social Sciences. [Slides]

Students

Graduates

• Cunchao Tu (2013-2018): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Social Computation and Network Embedding. -> THU Postdoc Fellow.
• Ayana (2013-2019): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Document Summarization.
• Cheng Yang (2014-2019): PhD Collaborated on network embedding. Network Embedding and Its Applications.
• Yankai Lin (2014-2019): PhD Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Graphs.
• Ruobing Xie (2014-2017): Master Co-supervised with Prof. Maosong Sun. Knowledge Representation Learning. 2017 -> Tencent.
• Xu Han (2017-): PhD.
• Yuan Yao (2018-): PhD.
• Haoxi Zhong (2018-): Master.
• Jie Zhou (2018-): Master.
• Kaitao Zhang (2018-): Master.
• Zhengyan Zhang (2019-): PhD.
• Ganqu Cui (2019-): Master.

Undergraduates

• Class 2016: Liang Chang (BUPT->), Tianyu Gao (THU->), Shengding Hu (THU->), Junjie Huang (Beihang->), Haozhe Ji (THU->), Sicong Ouyang (BUPT->), Yujia Qin (THU->), Xiaozhi Wang (THU->)xiaozhi, Ruidong Wu (THU->), Chaojun Xiao (THU->), Guoyang Zeng (THU->), Juexiao Zhang (THU->).
• 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->), Zhengyan Zhang (THU->THU PhD), Hao Zhu (THU->).
• 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).

Info

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

• 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

• Youth Associate Editor: Frontiers of Computer Science (SCI Index Journal).
• PC Area Chair: EMNLP 2019, COLING 2018, ACL 2018, ACL 2017, IJCNLP 2017.