Zhiyuan Liu

Assistant Professor
Natural Language Processing Lab,
Department of Computer Science and Technology,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Email: liuzy [at] tsinghua.edu.cn
Add: Room 4-506, FIT Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084
Research Interests: NLP, knowledge graph, social computation
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I am looking for highly-motivated PhD students (1 per year), post-docs (1-2) and visiting scholars to work on representation learning, knowledge graphs, social computation and/or computational social sciences. Please read the instructions and email me with your CV.

What's New

• Apr 2017, we got 3 papers accepted by ACL 2017 and 5 papers accepted by IJCAI 2017.
• Aug 2016, we release source codes of Neural Sentiment Classification. [codes]
• Jul 2016, we release source codes of Neural Relation Extraction, including CNN, PCNN, CNN+ATT and PCNN+ATT. [codes]
• Jan 2016, we published a new Chinese book, Big Data Intelligence: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in The Internet Age. [intro]

Talks

• Natural Language Processing in Big Data Era. [Slides]
• Representation Learning for Large-Scale Knowledge Graphs. [CCF ADL 2015]
• Representation Learning for Word, Sense, Phrase, Document and Knowledge. [pdf]
• Misinformation Analsyis and Refutation for Large-scale Chinese Social Media. (In Chinese) [pdf]
• Keyphrase Extraction, Social Tag Suggestion and Their Applications in Social Computation. (In Chinese) [pdf]

Students

• Class 2015: Hao Zhu (THU->), Xiang Li (THU->), Yuhui Zhang (THU->), Kun Wu (THU->).
• Class 2014: Deming Ye (THU->), Yuan Yao (THU->), Jiaju Du (THU->), Yilin Niu (THU->), Ji Xin (THU->), Xingchi Yuan (THU->), Ziyun Wang (THU->), Zikun Hu (THU->), Xiao Zhou (THU->).
• 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

• 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: ACL 2017, IJCNLP 2017.
• PC member: ACL 2016/2015/2014/2013/2012, AAAI 2016, IJCAI 2013, EACL 2012, NAACL-HLT 2012, EMNLP 2015/2014/2012, WWW 2016/2015/2012, ICDM 2015, WSDM 2012, AIRS 2012/2011/2010.
• Reviewer: TKDE, TOIS, JCST, JASIST, TALIP.
• Volunteer: COLING 2010.